Threads is so unhinged I’ve sort of come to appreciate it but you can’t make fun of it because it’s like punching an 8 year old
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Threads is so unhinged I’ve sort of come to appreciate it but you can’t make fun of it because it’s like punching an 8 year old
Would Obama be as successful today as he was 20 years ago? Probably not, although he other qualities that would still make him a good politician. But the whole ‘soaring speeches using nuanced language’ thing isn’t swaying anyone who isn’t already swayed.
When people talk about what a good communicator someone like Buttigieg is it’s good to know that type of communication has little political value in today’s information economy
I assume there are “safety” regulations that make it impossible?
the main thing about Gen Z is they understand the precise way to elicit a ‘kids these days’ from millenials
The conclusions where a lot of institutional dems end up (people are stupid, self absorbed, prone to group/conspiracy, hold contradictory opinions) is where they should start, with strategies based on those assumptions
An underrated part of twitters decline was the introduction of paid accounts which made it worthless for small accounts (which are most accounts) except for clout chasers. Setting aside all of the other problems most people aren’t going to pay to post on a conservative harassment site!
This picture of David Scott qualifying for reelection…
Love in Hyperion that each character is ostensibly telling the key parts of their story to explain why they’re there and Kassad is like ‘they’re going to want to know the how, when, where and why of each time I came”
Related: if swingy voters see you willing to throw your strongest supporters under the bus, quickly and repeatedly, they can piece together that they’ll soon be under the wheels too
this is good. underrated problem with popularism: it is--openly and explicitly--a pathetic, wimpy school of thought www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
Agree to their terms and then hit them with a lowkirkenuinely
Extends to economy and world more generally. If conditions are rapidly changing it gives people a sense of instability even when they recognize that they are objectively doing well
And it’s usually called machine learning but that’s boring
Vote Blue No Matter Who started as an approach to individual decision making when presented several bad choices and for that it makes some sense, but somehow it became an actual electoral strategy and as that it’s anywhere from ineffective to poisonous
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
Just one more post, just one more post, and then the posting addict will be done for good
Part of it is possibly dumber than that, due to the whole 6-7 meme
A lot people who think themselves consequentialists are actually deontologists, and vice versa, which is why these conversations are so painful
One thing I love about Reddit is that in my subreddits I’ve been exposed to none of this
I would melt it down to makes fillings for multiple orphans but I guess giving one orphan something decorative is good too
To the extent this is true it should never become accepted wisdom or be spoken aloud by dem politicians, they still need to act like people are persuadable
Would be amazing if the left had the power to sway national elections in the way some people think they do
Tried to put some numbers to this a year ago and yes the left is very small and has little influence (in my mind, unfortunately). People who spend a lot of time perseverating on how the left are wreckers do so because they get satisfaction from that narrative.
No Democratic nominee since Gore (and that was only with an exceptionally razor-thin margin) has lost enough votes on their left flank to account for the margin of defeat. Which makes it both an empty threat and pointless to blame or argue with such people.
‘Let’s hypothetically pretend one of the worst candidates wins the nomination and then force people to say whether they vote for him’
How about let’s not
How much is that, $47, $57?
Some variation of this seems true and it’s why protestations that Biden’s economic policies were the best in generations, but he didn’t get credit, are uncompelling. Yes they were good, but were happening against a backdrop of societal turmoil and we can’t separate the two as some would want.
