The whole "the Internet doesn't matter" take is without a doubt THE dumbest contrarian argument of the 21st century, its only makes sense if made in 1999
"Twitter doesn't matter - but YouTube does!" Contra
"Reddit doesn't matter - but Twitter does!" CTH hosts
"Twitter doesn't matter - but MSNBC does!" Suburban Libs
In the end none of them matter, only praxis, only discipline, only your irl comrades that you can do cool things with like brake light repair, protest, unionize, etc.
The whole "the Internet doesn't matter" take is without a doubt THE dumbest contrarian argument of the 21st century, its only makes sense if made in 1999
don't Hindu Nationalists radicalize people and organize pogroms on facebook? The internet has mattered for a long time
Yup. Every single right-wing mass shooter in the last 20 years were radicalized and pushed into action by the internet.
If that dude in NZ streaming himself going "subscribe to pewdiepie" and then shooting up a mosque wasn't "real" then I don't know what the fuck is.
"Twitter doesn't matter - but YouTube does!" Contra
"Reddit doesn't matter - but Twitter does!" CTH hosts
"Twitter doesn't matter - but MSNBC does!" Suburban Libs
In the end none of them matter, only praxis, only discipline, only your irl comrades that you can do cool things with like brake light repair, protest, unionize, etc.