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Call me a liberal, but I can’t keep derailing threads about this and fully address it in a post on its own. I am worried all the progress we have made is down the toilet and the right’s now the one advancing and winning year by year.

I get it, we’ve been in the minority opinion before like with gay rights. As doom and gloom as it looks, there is no denying that things have gotten better. And even during the aughts backlash times of the “anti-PC tirade”, being progressive still felt avant-garde and more sophisticated than being a chud. Some of that energy eventually manifested into Obama (as much of a fraud he was, even when I was a kid it was still awesome seeing him win.)

Now I feel like it’s the inverse. Not only are we losing these cultural battles, but I feel fogey being a non-CHUD. CHUDs are highly praised everywhere and thanks to the internet, CHUDs have been able to make their own Hollywood alternative and their own cultural institutions to build real soft power.

I would love to know of any possible signs of hope this little golden age of chuddery will be short-lived and we’re making some small wins. I would also love to know how the rest of y’all keep on trucking.

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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Sometimes the Nazis invade and push all the way to Leningrad, and you spend two years desperately fighting to keep the city from being overwhelmed. stalin-bummed

Sometimes the Zionists decide your village needs to go and they come in the night with dynamite and machine guns, catching you unaware. palestine-heart

Sometimes federal troops ride in before you can haul the guns into the hills and your family and comrades are surrounded in a little shack by a river. JB-shining-aggro

Sometimes your biggest partner and guarantor collapses in a crisis and you have to make desperate choices as your implacable enemy redoubles the effort to strangle you to death. fidel-si

Sometimes you've lost your headquarters and have to retreat, far far from where you started, and begin again. mao-aggro-shining

The struggle is not guaranteed victory. It will not always feel like we're winning. Sometimes you're ill-equipped and staring down a titan. But you're not struggling alone, the adversary has weaknesses and the struggle does not begin and end with us.

At least that's what I tell myself.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I am generally secure in the knowledge that any success they do have will inevitably lead to them eating themselves. These people are wholy selfish and self-centered, and do not have an actual understanding of the system that they run.

If they keep pushing on the gas like this, they will continue to cut out larger and larger sections of the populace, which democratic liberalism uses to shore up the empire. If you stop shoring it up, eventually the tide will wear down the barriers and take back the beach. I am personally more worried about the Democrats coming back in and figuring out a way to square this circle.

Like, even young military people make fun of Trump constantly. These people are not actually united for a cause because there is no cause to believe in anymore. They can't convince anyone that America is a greater good, and the idea that we are a lesser evil is becoming more laughable by the day.

Everyone is in their own little media corner these days, but because of that, there very little societal cohesion, which will make it incredibly difficult for the U.S. to actually muster itself in either a defensive or offensive posture. They will blow shit up and kill a lot of people, but we are a significantly less cohesive society than we were in the 90's.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What sort of Hollywood alternative are you talking about? Bentkey? Pureflix? I get (at least in the abstract) that some aspects about your environment really suck and that can beat you down and I don't blame you for that, but chuds are still plainly on the back foot of the "culture war" if you look at the country broadly and remember the absurd astroturfing campaigns inflating their visiblity on Twitter, Reddit, and streaming sites.

Libs are chauvinists regardless, but chuds are not winning in soft power in any real sense. They may yet win, because the margin has narrowed a bit, but that day is not today.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Probably best to start here. It may just be one studio but Angel studios. IIRC it was what produced Sound of Freedom, and both the David and Animal Farm movies that will be coming out and have been getting some attention.

Twitter, as bot-ridden as it is, still is one hell of a consent manufacturing machine. Even if fascism is just getting astroturfed, this feels pretty foreboding like the bourgeoisie don’t even want to performatively entertain some social good and the ruling class are more locked in. This isn’t even scratching the cultural power you see from YouTube and Twitch. Podcasting too, looking at the gangbusters Joe Rogan and many talking heads have done. Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no impression legacy media blessed us with these cultural victories because of a principled stance against fascism, but nothing sends a chill down your spine when a family member asks you “Zinn, who is Nick Fuentes?”

I get it, my environment both online and offline is demoralizing to say the least and makes me feel like an outsider. But part of me is missing rainbow capitalism as a sign of the times.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Angel Studios is not a Hollywood alternative. They are now responsible for exactly two films of note, and Sound of Freedom was basically a QAnon fad that is nearly forgotten already by mainstream society.

This is like saying that Pureflix is a Hollywood alternative because God's Not Dead did pretty well.

I do grant you that the podcast situation is dire, I didn't give that due considerations, but the libs are still obviously on top overall.