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Costa Samaras@costasamaras.bsky.social |
As someone who is terminally online it brings me no joy to report the truth that showing up to a public meeting, calling an elected representative, writing a public comment for a regulation, and voting has more positive impact than 92,000 posts.
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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By no means should you stop posting, even if you could, which you, we, can not. Do it all
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Tim Kovach
@tkovach.bsky.social
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But what about 93,000 posts
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‘stina is a shiny special one
@stinapag.bsky.social
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My school board started screwing with the zoning to my kid’s future very good elementary school. The neighborhood families pitched a royal fit by organizing in the coffee shops, going door to door & forcing public meetings with the district. At the end, our kids have a much better deal than before.
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pophouse
@pophouse.bsky.social
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honestly I have always felt that calling my elected representatives is about as effective as posting to my 14 follower bots. never got the slightest inkling that it ever made any difference whatsoever
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jdrch
@jdrch.bsky.social
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💯🎯
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Rachel
@weener.bsky.social
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Usually. But if elected officials read your tweets and feel shame because of them, they can be pretty effective. No city electeds in Columbus, Ohio care if I vote for them but they do get annoyed when I tweet about their bad policy decisions
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Lew Morton
@lewmorton.bsky.social
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So true! And if anyone in California wants to try it out, here's a link to write your state reps about a bill to stop forced outing policies in schools:
action.aclu.org/send-message...
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Carl Nyberg
@carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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Which members of Congress do public meetings without grooming a specific audience in advance? It seem weird to pretend online people are skipping public meetings with elected officials.
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Dr. Katharine Dickson
@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social
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People go after these opportunities when people believe their voice has an impact. Except for voting, I still struggle to believe my voice has an impact in these settings and that policymakers listen to anyone but rich donors. There’s literature supporting this. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Laustia 🏳️🌈
@laustia.bsky.social
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Except when one lives in Texas, and your elected state officials have their own personal crusade that is antithesis to literally everything you are. I could call and write a billon times, it would do nothing. I might as well try telling Trump his hands are tiny.
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Rachel
@slightlycaustic.bsky.social
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I post online too, but Pretty sure I’m on a junk list for all my conservative MP’s in Canada though from my incessant emails with my outrage.
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Leigh G
@yogaleigh.bsky.social
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And there are lots of GOTV efforts out there, from writing letters for VoteForward.org to postcards w/ MomsRising.org to textbanking or marching w/ PoorPeoplesCampaign.org or textbanks, postcards, phonebanks w/ FieldTeam6.org.
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Stephen Judkins
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social
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Doing this Tuesday night!
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AnneZo
@annezo.bsky.social
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YES!
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Aarne Granlund
@aarnegranlund.bsky.social
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Better yet, run in municipal politics. It can be very tough but the decisions are tangible. We just got the eastern most wind power site because also the moderate right and the agrarians supported it.
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Roxanne Darling 🌿
@roxannedarling.bsky.social
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Yes! And to your point, I wrote 10 postcards to voters in Ohio yesterday. We're so much smarter when we take action in physical reality vs the digital ones. Keep preaching! Do something real, people. Flyers at laundromats, letters to voters, make donations, run for something — so many options!
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Skelekate
@skelekate.bsky.social
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The last time I went to a city council meeting, the cops dragged out anyone who vocally defied the mayor. Put me off ever going back.
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Noel French
@noelfrench.bsky.social
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92,001 is when you really start to have an impact.
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Kathy Hochul Hater
@thebumpasaurus.bsky.social
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But to send an email you gotta go to an entirely different app!
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Renee (paix120)
@paix120.bsky.social
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Many of us do all of the above, and it's the info we get from social media that helps with reminders and news that motivates us to follow through. So, social media info sharing is necessary but not sufficient, imo. (So I don't want to discourage it)
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Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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92,000 hand-crafted posts directed at someone's chief of staff -- now you got a stew
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Crowpotkin
@crowpotkin.bsky.social
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People do not like to be yelled at. You can ignore an email, you at least have to sit and take someone telling you you're an asshole.
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Energetic Nova
@energetic-nova.bsky.social
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This website alone…. This account alone…. I had more impact directly writing and bringing complaints to a local crisis line in person than I have any of these posts I made. I got the crisis line to stop calling the cops and treating us like a checklist
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@waltfrench.bsky.social
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And IF we have more than a doomscrolling-class attention span, the consistent effort to ① focus on the subject area, ② find the meeting schedule, ③ get to, and ④ stay mentally engaged with the actual meeting… probably only costs much less energy/time than 400 posts, for 230:1 effectiveness
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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Any advice on finding where to comment and tracking public meetings? I went to one public meeting for Woodinville, WA on bike trails to connect to ongoing projects and never heard about any followup. I find a lot of this a bit obtuse, but I do care.
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Coyote
@goldencoyote.bsky.social
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Personally I find that to be more like beating my head against a brick wall 😑 The only people who are listened to around here are the rich people, not the folks who are ACTUALLY AFFECTED by these smug condescending assholes’ inane decisions…
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professional agitatormama
@pnutsmama.bsky.social
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go canvass for your congressional candidate! there’s an app and everything!!
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Billy 🇵🇸❤️🌈🕊
@jesterthejedi.bsky.social
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When U write them I get fluffy bull-shit replies, they don’t care, listen, and are not legally & financially held accountable. We need oversight of all side deals, and the ability to undo, jail, correct, fine, and stop all profits(end tiny fines for big Corps). Lets claw back their 💰 instead.
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Jay Marose
@jaymarose.bsky.social
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And provides a record.
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Sara Manns
@whatsarasaid.bsky.social
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It is the worst, man My vision of an apocalyptic landscape that my child suffers to survive in after I’m gone is the only reason I go to zoning meetings and ask for more housing for humans & less deference to cars. Otherwise I’d be online posting about the Democrats failure to fix the environment.
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rail enthusiast wife Daria
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Might mean more but after months of telling them the same thing every time they’re still trying to move the state bus hub out of the most central spot in the city, so more still ain’t enough.
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@dedreamer.bsky.social
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I hope this is true! It can be really disheartening (signed someone who just spent years campaigning against state changes to voting law that passed Friday anyway and will make same voter registration for young and disabled voters basically impossible)
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fahrenheit: four fifty fun
@moonagedaydream.bsky.social
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thats easy for you to say, look how many likes you got on this post! you're rolling in 'em! (jk)
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Jeff Galactic
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Agree, with the caveat that we can vote and contact our reps AND discuss things amongst ourselves all at the same time. And most do.
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