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Not just tankies. Try telling a social-justice type that the only identity you give a shit about is class identity. It's hilarious.

I might be a social-justice type, then. Class reductionism is appealing in its simplicity, but I don't think it's very productive. Like, it's fine to focus on a particular thing that you care about, but being unsympathetic to the things that others struggle with isn't going to garner sympathy in return. I see the parallel that you're pointing out, but I don't think it's the same.

That's what bootleg fansubbed anime is for. :)

UwU

For me that's more of a social activity, though.

And that's fine for you. I just don't have the patience to sit through a video or audio lecture. I can read faster than these people can talk, and it's not like you can grep a video for keywords.

Oh yeah, I'm not trying to sell you on watching this one, just pointing out why some people do like video. The TL;DW is that leftists have never been unified, and never will be. We all have our differing goals and preferred means. Rather than trying to browbeat everyone into falling in line under a single unified ideology/party/platform/etc, we should just collaborate selectively on a per-project basis, and otherwise not worry about it.

Tankies are allergic to this notion, though.

Those on the right have their own splits and power struggles. Not everyone can be at the top of the hierarchy, after all. I think their advantage lies more in the fact that they have existing systems to rally around, whereas the left is trying to create something new.

I definitely appreciate the raw efficiency of text, and prefer it most of the time. Video has its place too, though. Sometimes it's nice to just relax with something that has moving pictures to hold your attention.

While the Andrewism video doesn't fit into this category, I've been getting more into watching videos for technical topics lately. I was trying to learn about how perceptual image hashing works the other day, and needed to understand the discrete cosine transform. The wikipedia article wasn't going to cut it, but I managed to find this video on JPEG compression (which uses DCT), and it ended up being very helpful.

Sorry. From now on I'll stick to only posting Tick Talk videos.

The quality of their arguments doesn't really matter though, nor does it matter whether they're able to convince a majority of people. What matters is that they can reach the few people that will find their overall presentation intriguing enough to merit further investigation, and then pull those people down the rabbit hole. It's the same strategy that fascists use, just red-flavored instead of brown.

It also makes the space overall less appealing to your actual target audience, which is a cardinal sin of online community management.

Just like with fascists though, it's better not to let them propagandize, even if you aren't personally triggered by it.

You know, there'd be a whole lot less gish-galloping propaganda in the comments here if you were to defederate hexbear. Just sayin. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Unlike tankies, who are definitely not weird and larpy about their ideological forebears. /s

Alright, fair.

Typical tankie response.

Do you mean something like discord-style emotes?