Some dork with 200,000 followers saying the CCP is bad probably has 1/1,000,000,000th the influence on your average Americans opinion than one Fox News or CNN host has.
And on the flip side them stanning the CCP would have a similarly meaningless affect.
So idk why we spend so much time getting pissy at them for their hot takes when all when all of them disappearing tomorrow wouldn’t change anything.
I think about this a lot with reference to podcasts like the Antifada or Swampside Chats. Don't get me wrong, I like both, but they'll be discussing someone like Postone or Lasch and I'm just like "yes, but outside of a highly educated few, these ideas are non-influential, plus, if we accept the premise that the actions of the governing elite are overdetermined by the material conditions mostly, and the culture secondly that they live in, then does the fact that someone read one author or another really influence their behavior beyond a narrow band of acceptability?"
As an example, Obama built the border camps, Steven Miller just put them into overdrive.