Like many of y'all, I read a fair number of Lefty websites

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112. There are 3 distinct kinds of political engagement online

There’s the stuff I come here for which I hope isn’t entirely dying out: 1) anonymous left leaning posters who feel passionately about some topic or the other or 2) impassioned grassroots activists.

I am in the first group (too lazy for activism-it was a lot of work the one time I tried it…standing around in bad weather collecting signatures ;-/..I respect that but it’s a lot of work).
It was the environment for me. That’s why I joined DU. It reminds me of the web version of my mom sending letters to the editor (which rarely got published ;-/).

The environment is an unpopular topic greenwashing aside. Marion Nestle was told to never disparage meat, sugar etc in her time at the HHS if I remember correctly. Similarly overpopulation is off-limits - that’s strictly taboo in polite society which works out well both for Cato and Koch as well as for Nazis, racists, eugenics types, fundies, other sexists and classists since they can exploit the vacuum left to talk about it in explicitly in sexist/racist/classist or deceptively mercenary terms. That last is the Cato style momboss/supermom bs that gets pushed on social media.

We should have been encouraging discussions of voluntary family planning from the time infant mortality rates started dropping due to modern medicine. It’s a major driver of climate change.

But apparently it’s a binary issue and nothing is an option except coercive sterilization or “people should have as many kids as they want and environmental impact is taboo”.

Critical thinking is something we excel at as a society clearly. And can’t ever point out that the food/green revolution thing is an outdated straw-man. We simply don’t produce non-bullshit jobs, doctors or teachers at the rate at which we produce babies. It’s tied to rising extremism and has other ineffable effects etc..

Anyway, Trump and RFK are doing their bit for “old-fashioned population control” I suppose..no vaccines, no gun control..I guess that’s one way to do it. Very retro and therefore clearly fashionable.

Besides I think war is an industry that requires human life to be cheap (which is what happens in practice with overpopulation though that part is left unsaid). Such connection making is bad for too many industries to be popular. Besides all discourse should be inclusive of our fine war profiteers who work hard to ensure there is enough cannon fodder.

But I digress..sorry..hobby horse..

The third is a phenomenon that social media probably caused an explosion of. That type of poster (where human) belongs to the class of people who by profession are formally influencers, political consultants etc.

That’s a totally different type of thing and would be closer to clickbait. Not necessarily. You can find quality stuff of that kind possibly. But as a rule it is a more commercial operation.

You appear to be referring to that..not that normal posters don’t post that way online. It’s my dad’s speciality. Thanks to Trump he has finally realized that using all caps is not considered cool 🙄. I showed him how to use italics for emphasis instead on messaging apps.