askchapo

Hmmm

The golden age of the Internet and social media of the 2010s is long past. There was a special moment when people across the world could share hobbies and interests instantly. Most of us were on Reddit at one point for similar reasons. Twitter became the world's open air forum.

Corporate media has created a walled garden out of the social media/Internet era. If it's not on Facebook, Twitter, Google/YT, or tiktok, 99.99% of people aren't going to see it. And if it is on those, and it's any way controversial, it will be censored or shadowbanned.

While there have been many labor struggles to organize, overall, labor organization is floundering (see: media censorship) and is not any closer to presenting itself as a unified force (see: Occupy)

I think 2026 will be an important year because it will be the test of whether the activists from 2020 learned anything from that year's unrest. Our enemy has no conscience and cannot be reasoned with. The opposition party doesn't meet even the most barebones definition of the term. In 2020, we watched thousands of well-meaning protestors be brutalized by local, state, and federal forces. Some fought back and burned or occupied police stations, but what is there to show for that now? Tactics will need to be changed. The surveillance state makes action feel impossible. Many, many people will be victimized if they fight back.

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The Democrats won't save the West, neither will China. Truthfully, we probably won't either.

The 2020s will be looked back on like the American 1850s: the road to unavoidable conflict