Social media is mostly bots, most people hate the government
Liberals are at a point where they hate the Dems and the GOP
The right wing coalition is falling apart with Candace owens, Tucker carlson, and Nick Fuentes separating the Nazis from the evangelical Christians.
Material conditions are getting worse, but we haven’t had the ai bubble pop or war with Venezuela. Either will make life way worse for the west and we’re gonna see chaos.
Idk what’s gonna happen, but I think trump 2.0 has kinda turned a lot of people away from the right by both making material conditions worse and being mean and annoying.
Look at any news sub on reddit and it’s filled with pro Israel bots and shit. But the amount of obvious pro Israel propaganda from the state and by bots and shit was so obvious it’s now turning every right winger under the age of 40 into a Nazi.
I don’t think the mass botting campaigns work. They only make people more upset at the right and make the right look like extremely annoying assholes.
The right won a lot of ground by going “Le woke is trying to put politics into everything”
But now every fucking social media thread about sports or video games or movies gets brigaded by obvious right wing bots, even the most stupid liberals I know hate it.
People hate this it makes it seem like right wingers are now the annoying sjw that makes everything about politics (they always have been) and since most people under 40 get their news from tiktok and shit the bots and MSM manufacturing consent campaigns don’t work.
My mother is 60 and gets her news from tiktok. She doesn’t want the US to invade Venezuela, literally nobody does only bots do.
It’s backfiring but I think the admin is super on twitter and think it’s working. I think they legit do not understand that they’re getting everyone to hate them and theyre making material conditions worse. I think they also believe more in the polymarket shit than polls because they’re that stupid.
What happens next? Trump’s polling is the worst it’s ever been. The right wing coalition has collapsed and now maga is basically only the white evangelical boomers.
If material conditions get worse we’re gonna see more Luigis and Tyler Robinsons in a country with way to many guns.
I don’t think it’s working.
I think it’s causing back lash to how annoying and gross it is.
All the support you see for it online is 100% astroturfed bots
This is true among a majority of people. However, it has an audience it appeals to of mainly young, alienated people. Fascism doesn’t have to have universal appeal (in fact, it can’t by its nature), in every historical case support from a minority of the population has been enough to implement the political project.
I don’t think there is enough.
Less than 1% of the population is probably actively fascist.
Nobody watches Nick Fuentes or Candace Owens.
Nobody fucking knew who charlie Kirk was before he died
We also saw young men vote for zohran when given a populist left wing option.
Sadly, I think this is a colossal underestimate. Or at least, that “active” fascists matter less than the number of people who will choose fascism when given the option. There are easily more than 3 million fascists in America, there are other criteria for identifying fascists than if they pay attention to Nick Fuentes.
Ultimately these things are products of material conditions, and Amerikkka is the imperial core. It’s fertile ground for fascism and (at least at the moment) genuine, organized opposition is marginal at best.
I disagree, maybe 1 million at most in the US but I don’t think that’s enough. That’s less than 1% of the population.
I fully expect maga to fall apart when Trump dies. There will be no American Adolf Hitler, it will Instead be a slow neoliberal decline until China takes over
That would be good, but unfortunately I think the lack of a current competent unifying fascist figure or movement doesn’t preclude one surfacing in the future.
Having backlash or other negative side effects doesn’t mean it’s not working, that just means it has costs, but those still might be outweighed by its benefits in terms of advantaging our corporate overlords.