It’s not like we’re discussing anything too serious on there.

Additionally like the about page on the Substack says: “but this will change as we are currently building a self-hosted server to fulfill our goals while having control over our organizing without a major corporation having access.”

I really can’t understand where this concept comes from because I’ve been up and down the East coast of the US and I’ve talked with a lot of different communities. I’ve found more listening ears and sympathetic people in the hoods, rural communities, impoverished suburbs, etc.

Is there reactionaries? Yes, of course, but the amount who actually want to harm people vs the amount who are relatively good, have no idea about politics, or are willing to hear out your side is vastly stark. Arguably 30/70, or even 50/50 if we are being vague. It also depends on where you go, I’ve found far more enemies in the gentrified downtowns of blue states than I have heavily mixed rural southern towns. Same with the mostly liberal colleges vs the impoverished suburbs.

The big thing is so many get caught up in the frequency illusion, especially with social media. The loudest and most annoying reactionaries online say the most insane shit because they feel untouchable and like they can get away with it, but that doesn’t automatically translate to irl daily life. Those loud mfs are loud for a reason, they compensate for their lack by functioning off bias & anger and only invite the unhinged like them. Most people are not that invested, often because they have too much going on in their own lives or rely on establishment beliefs, or even no beliefs because they’re disillusioned by the system and checked out of it all (which is a large chunk of the US rn).

America may have its higher than usual amount of reactionaries, but that’s because we are a safe haven for them. At the end of the day there is far more potential allies than there is enemies and giving into the political nihilism and doomerism that “everyone is bad” is simply suicidal and unrealistic.

Agreed

Trust me I fully understand. Between my content, work, Red Rifle Collective, and the think tank - I have no free time, and honestly I am happy since political work is my love. I hope you can in the future, we’d love the extra hands with this project.

I fully agree and I’d love your involvement with the work we’re doing in this. I don’t know if you saw the Redline Media invite link at the bottom of the piece but that is where we’re working from temporarily until we move to self-hosted servers. We need as many people involved in this project as much as possible.

I use both. I use Linux, element, and signal for my computer, communications and planning with the comrades, and the popular social media’s specifically for propaganda and reaching out to comrades to bring into the organizations our group is building.

Ok

Everything you said I fully agree with and it’s why, as someone deeply studied and experienced in social media and various IT issues, me and my comrades are building what we are building. I have my think tank which deals with a lot of these issues, and then my comrade has our IT agency for teaching on the issues of cyber security, websites, etc. Both of our organizations will bleed over to each other at times but that was the intended purpose.

A piece I posted back in April, which is something I’ve been discussing with them for a year or two now, is “the biggest weak points in the Left” and it goes over some of this. It’s why we are building as much as we can and inviting as many into it as we can because we need to solve these issues. https://islamicsocialist.substack.com/p/the-biggest-weak-points-of-the-us

That’s awesome, thank you for it being made, we needed our own space for video content.

Which can only really happen with a primary space sharing tips and tactics to do so without as much or any censorship. That’s why I made Redline Media Institute. And for the rest of the Left who doesn’t make content, that’s what spaces like this one and the others is for. A place to speak freely and plan and then know how to carry ourselves on the corporate sites as we spread influence.

Facts, this was exactly what I did after I studied theory and got self-activated to organize with the organizations I belonged to.

I never said not to use popular social medias, but to use them specifically for the purpose of spreading ideology. The sites like this one where we aren’t censored or as censored need to be spaces of planning, discussion and getting propaganda. Then we should go to popular socials specifically to spread these beliefs and propaganda into communities outside our own echo chambers.

“You need to see every corner of the internet as a city to influence and people to bring towards the movement as best as possible. That’s our biggest weak point in the Left in terms of influence, the lack of mass mobilization and spread of influence.”

Oh that’s awesome! I didn’t know that. You the one who made it?

I have been saying this for a while and it’s why I made Redline Media Institute. I’m not going to just wait for the Left to come around, I’m going to help build.

We need a wide range of different propaganda for different purposes. Our group has guides on social media strategy, psychological warfare, and memetic warfare.

We have and need more propaganda centered on left-wing communities - defending AES, talking about Marxist economics and philosophy, theory, etc.

We need propaganda for the progressives to move them left - micro-dosing ideology, challenging liberal notions, etc.

We need propaganda to influence normies to the left, usually a combination of the previous two but in smaller micro-doses and said as a passing piece in content that isn’t even political.

Like I said “What makes a pipeline a pipeline is the many entry points into it that leads to specific political communities.” We need to pull in people from anywhere.

Thank you! If you can, share it around.

Thank you for the list of people, some I follow, some new ones I need to follow.

I’m sorry but that’s just wrong. I’ve been writing on Substack for 2 years now and the majority of that site is left-leaning or left-wing people. Content creators and regular readers. Just my newsletter has gone from 400 to 1,580 in a year.

Even if it was, and the case for Rumble, I do not agree with this notion that because it is dominant with the right that it can’t be used if its a low-censorship site with no specific political devotion. You’re just arguing to leave spaces online untouched by our infiltration and means to radicalize people away from reactionary backwardness, which is basically a spit in the face to what Mao said. We did that before irl and it’s one of the biggest reasons the influence/power vacuum in rural communities openned up and was quickly influenced by far-right efforts to divide political beliefs between the cities (left) and rural communities (right) - that tactic is so well known its mentioned by the far-right in their own propaganda.

And I gave my Rumble as an example, I’ve got blatant left-wing content on there, I just don’t post video stuff consistently and don’t have the tech yet to do streaming (despite I plan to). https://rumble.com/c/c-2318824

Rumble has such a low censorship that I uploaded blatant Hamas propaganda to test the waters and it’s still up: https://rumble.com/v4ltle2-our-beloved-ones-by-shadi-al-bourini-palestine-resistance.html

Like I said at the bottom of the article: “We need entry points, propaganda spreaders, into every space across the internet. Nothing should be out of our reach.”

Never said anything about them being lesser, that’s you making that assumption or trying to put words in my mouth. Humans are humans and they’re all complex, but there is people who have a higher ability to pattern recognition, analysis, and critical thought, and those with less. It doesn’t mean they’re lesser, it just means they need a different way of approach. The issue with the Left as a majority is not understanding this and changing approach when need be, or making information consumable for people with different understandings. Too much intellectual heavy jargon, text heavy distribution, etc. The art of micro-dosing ideology and information to people is only recently (2020) starting to become a thing.

1: You guys care far too much about the semantics. Human society doesn’t advance off constantly fighting for exact estimates, it operates of 70-80% of knowledge and execution. When a study is covering something as difficult to cover as the inner workings of the mind, it’s not always going to have exact estimates of things, it’s going to have the closest ratio it can get. I’ve studied psychology, it’s a difficult science. Even if it was half, that is still a serious number to consider as it means half the people you’ll ever deal with will not have the means to understand something as others do.

2: Everyone operates off their upbringing. This is psychology & sociology 101. One’s actions are usually a byproduct of something that happened within their environment. Inner monologue just means a higher ability to internally analyze past decisions or beliefs. That’s why it’s far more common with neurodivergent people than it is with neurotypicals. A lack of a inner monologue means a lack of an inner tribunal, and for those without one, it means you have to convince them to your side either off appealing to emotional thought, material conditions, or other methods. When we talk about inner monologue, it means in a neuroscience lens, as a higher ability to analyze past other means of thought.

That’s very apparent since this same message was shared on Reddit, my Substack & my own Telegram channel and didn’t get remotely the push back it is getting here. It’s obvious that with lemmygrad becoming a new hub for the Left to speak more openly, there is folks coming into it that aim to water down or derail any form of thought or organizing that matters. It is what it is, ultimately this post was to shout facts to a void for at least a few to sympathize and begin focusing on fixing the many issues within the Left through our own individual contributions to mass organizing. It is to shout what I’ve seen and been fighting against or for, for well over a decade. It’s also why most of my own work in organizing is devoted to the clear lacking areas the Left has, such as our lack of militancy which is being addressed by our organization Red Rifle Collective, and our lack of a propaganda wing, which is being dealt with by the building of a Socialist think tank.