• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Sure, I’d be fine with that, it would be great, but it would be preaching to the choir. The people who would nod in agreement on that message will be people who already know that Musk and Rogan are pieces of shit who should be questioned. My point here is that this connects with the people who don’t see it that way, and that’s important for power. There are several million military families, and far more adjacent and extended members who have a favorable image of the US military.

    The left broadly needs to start thinking in terms of power and politics, we’re too hung up on trying to get everything perfect instead of capitalizing and leveraging the actual sources of power, such as liberal, uninvolved, uninformed America.

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      14 hours ago

      I feel like being against US imperialism is a higher concern than Musk saying “empathy is weakness”

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        14 hours ago

        I fully agree, but that US imperialism is powered by tens of millions of people who listen to Rogan and Musk every day and think the US military are like the badass heroes in the Transformers movies. We don’t make traction telling them “ARMY BAD” we make traction telling them to stop believing what they see. Carts and horses.

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          11 hours ago

          I don’t think it’s Rogan and Musk that are getting people to support US imperialism. It’s so pervasive it’s treated as the default. That’s what leads to images like this one.