everyone on this website tells me “oh go outside do some actual organizing leftists irl are not as terminally online as on this website” but then I go outside and do some actual organizing and it’s like 75% terminally online people who wouldn’t be out of place on this website, joking about whatever twitter in-joke or drama is big that day. “You don’t watch anime?” No motherfucker I don’t, like sorry I didn’t realize knowing who Hatsune Miku is was a prerequisite to being a communist
Join some other orgs too! Some are like that, but others are full of cool elderly folks that struggle with tech, and yet others have a more middle-aged demographic, where they can use tech but aren’t terminally online. It feels like it varies by location as much as it does by the national organization.
That’s just how young people are nowadays. Everyone born after 1995-ish has it hard to avoid being terminally online, or be completely shielded from its discourses.
However, I wouldn’t necessarily say people doing active organizing here in Germany are that influenced by twitter discourse. However, lifestylism and hedonism are hugely influential among many self-proclaimed leftists. I imagine America is different since it had a huge recruitment wave for leftist organizations in the mid to late 2010s instead of slowly but steadily shrinking since the early 1980s. Less comrades in their 30s and 40s and later to get to know, turning many orgs into youth-based ones, with specific inner cultures.
everyone on this website tells me “oh go outside do some actual organizing leftists irl are not as terminally online as on this website” but then I go outside and do some actual organizing and it’s like 75% terminally online people who wouldn’t be out of place on this website, joking about whatever twitter in-joke or drama is big that day. “You don’t watch anime?” No motherfucker I don’t, like sorry I didn’t realize knowing who Hatsune Miku is was a prerequisite to being a communist
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Hatsune Miku is an instrument
sorry but I refuse to learn who Hatsune Miku is
I actually really like the guy who said that to me, but like cmon
Join some other orgs too! Some are like that, but others are full of cool elderly folks that struggle with tech, and yet others have a more middle-aged demographic, where they can use tech but aren’t terminally online. It feels like it varies by location as much as it does by the national organization.
That’s just how young people are nowadays. Everyone born after 1995-ish has it hard to avoid being terminally online, or be completely shielded from its discourses.
However, I wouldn’t necessarily say people doing active organizing here in Germany are that influenced by twitter discourse. However, lifestylism and hedonism are hugely influential among many self-proclaimed leftists. I imagine America is different since it had a huge recruitment wave for leftist organizations in the mid to late 2010s instead of slowly but steadily shrinking since the early 1980s. Less comrades in their 30s and 40s and later to get to know, turning many orgs into youth-based ones, with specific inner cultures.