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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

And to follow up, let’s cut through the noise: the actual revolutionaries are not on the left anymore—they’re on the right. While leftists sit in their echo chambers, recycling the same tired rhetoric about the "deep state," "holocaust," "seizing the means of production," or the "oppressive system," the right is using that very system to achieve real, tangible victories. You know, that whole "praxis" thing you've only ever read about. You call out the "deep state" in theory, but the right is actively bending it to their will, infiltrating and reshaping institutions while you’re busy hashtagging your outrage. You talk about class struggle, but the right is recruiting the working class and mobilizing them into a political force while you alienate them with performative virtue-signaling and elitist condescension.

Decentralized organizing? The right has mastered it. You talk about decentralized resistance, but they’re doing it with militias, grassroots movements, and local networks that bypass traditional power structures. You fantasize about armed resistance, but they’re the ones arming up and preparing for real-world conflict while you rage from behind your keyboard. They’ve taken leftist tactics and have weaponized them effectively—moving the political discourse to their advantage, recruiting new members, and pushing their radical politicians into the mainstream. Trump? SCOTUS? They didn’t come out of nowhere—they're the result of decades of long-term grassroots organizing by the right that you probably mocked, dismissed, or ignored. Now they're reshaping the entire political landscape, and you’re too busy whining on social media to see it and too busy applying purity tests to everyone and everything to stop it.

The so-called revolutionaries on the left, with their gaming-chair activism and social media campaigns, think they’re going to change the world with retweets, downvotes, and think pieces. Meanwhile, the right is out there in the real world, moving mountains while you move Lemmy posts. The so-called left is getting beat—badly. And the worst part? You don’t even seem to notice. It's both incredibly sad and very frustrating. There’s a real revolution happening, but it’s not yours. The left are not the ones changing the world—they're the ones losing it. And anyone trying to find ways to blunt the tips or create a tactical opening you dismiss from your self-constructed throne of high-morality. How's the weather up there on your high horse anyway?

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And this level of intelligence is allowed to vote. We're doomed.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

When the left tries to organize to effect change:

Chalking Bans and ID Checks at Protests Repress Palestine Solidarity on Campus

There’s a reason the right has no problem organizing. It is tolerated, and condoned. Why?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because it infiltrated the system and gained power from within, a prospect that for some reason horrifies leftists. Even though that is the only way to achieve your goals.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It didn’t infiltrate the system. It is the system.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is now. The tea party started as an outside movement.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did it, though?

An Astroturf campaign is a fake grassroots movement: it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you desperately need to believe it was astroturfed, because otherwise it would too starkly contrast with the absolute failure of Leftism.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago