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Sasha Danielle
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I think the insinuation is that Leftists who despise Biden or who refuse to vote for Biden therefore want Trump to win.
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Sasha Danielle
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I think the insinuation is that Leftists who despise Biden or who refuse to vote for Biden therefore want Trump to win.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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its like 100 total dudes from the /r/chapotraphouse subreddit, the problem is that for a certain type of guy on here or on Vichy Twitter, those 100 guys make up 50% of their replies so it seems like this mass movement rooting for Biden to lose to Trump
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Prisonculture
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I keep seeing references made to 'leftists' who 'want 45 to win.' Who are these leftists? Are they strangers on the internet? I just don't see this. No one I know on the Left(s) is pro-45. I know some reactionary *moderates* who are though.
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@horizontalhold.bsky.social
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That's more to the media not actually giving a shit about those events in the first place. However, pointing our unfairness does not fix it.
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@horizontalhold.bsky.social
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You need to either work with the media biases at play or find an actual way to surpass them. The media doesn't seem to give a shit about state rallies by themselves and neither does the pure dismissal in the ABC interview solve anything.
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Riana
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Decided just now to start rereading Hitchhikers Guide for the first time in many years and uh
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Colin Spacetwinks
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"the media just wants STUNTS!!!!!" sounds like the president should do some fucking stunts then! anything other than 'sit around moping' and 'release extremely low energy letters that also promise to do nothing and just ask people to vote harder for you whenever SCOTUS does bullshit'
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Colin Spacetwinks
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"oh you think you the president can just WAVE A MAGIC WAND and PASS ALL YOUR POLICIES" no, what i'm saying is- "you think the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES can just DO THINGS that DRIVE NEWS CYCLES" actually yes absolutely no shit he is the Fucking President
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Colin Spacetwinks
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you either get serious about tackling media as a problem as president and as a legislative body, going after monopolies and taking an IRS shaped hammer to white collar crime in this space, or you do some basic fucking driving of news cycles, or ideally, you do both. but "mope about it"? jesus.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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you can't fucking drive a news cycle about the courts when everybody from dick durbin to joe biden himself agrees that the only possible response they can make to SCOTUS is basically a form response with all the energy of an HR rep saying "we are taking these concerns very seriously."
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Colin Spacetwinks
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"can you believe they're hardly spending any time or page space on the supreme court saying the president is immune?!" absolutely i can! the media is dogshit! what is the dem's plan to make news cycles about SCOTUS? oops! it's "nothing" cuz everybody at the top agrees to be quiet wimps about 'em.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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clinton was getting his ass kicked by limbaugh just on *talk radio* before fox news *existed*. the most powerful people in the dem party's response to media as an issue has been "vote to make it extremely easy for billionaires to buy up all the radio, tv, news, internet" and "mope about it".
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Colin Spacetwinks
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if your only strategies to deal with an unfair media is "mope about it being unfair" or "get more racist to try and make them like you", and you've had tons of money and power and decades of time to do something about the problem, my sympathy turns quickly into "oh fucking well".
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Colin Spacetwinks
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this isn't some random trans teenager the news is putting in the spotlight for bullshit. this is the president. the media being unfair is baked in. the party has insanely massive warchests, they've had power ranging from committee seats to the presidency, and they've had decades to do something.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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as always, the obama '08 campaign is the key thing i point to when people talk about how Unfair the media is. it was extremely unfair how the GOP, the media, and hillary clinton herself were extremely racist to him. if his media strategy was 'mope about shit being unfair', probably would've lost.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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see: the clinton camp constantly harrumphing about But Her Emails, when 8 years earlier the media being total dogshit who'll snap up anything that looks juicy enough sure seemed like a good avenue for shit like this to start circulating around
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Colin Spacetwinks
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feels like part of the longstanding trend of "complain about the media, but never do anything about it other than Hope They're Nice To Us" from democrats is that a lot of 'em find the shittiness of the media convenient when they want to knife somebody else in the party
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Lindsay Ellis
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v discouraged how often I'm seeing "wow, we should really reexamine the unfair mass vilification of Yoko Ono" with "so let's vilify the REAL misogynist, John Lennon."
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Ed
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Important to realize as we try to retain civility on Bluesky that all the stuff we say to each other will have literally zero impact on whether Biden bows out or not, we’re just hanging around yapping about politics like a bunch of old Greek guys at a sidewalk cafe, no need to take it personally
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@horizontalhold.bsky.social
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I don't think we have enough evidence either way to access Biden's abilities but his main points are pretty sound
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Null convention
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no, activism is not "calling out" random destitute trans women because you thought they said something you didn't care for. nothing has ever been helped or improved by throwing shit at trans women on social media.
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@horizontalhold.bsky.social
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I hate the media regardless of if their narrative right now is based on truth.
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journeyman folklorist
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Like if you have achieved hot dog nirvana. Repost if you are still on the noble hot dog eightfold path
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Colin Spacetwinks
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much more "welp! that fucking sucks. back at the work elsewhere"
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Colin Spacetwinks
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truly these kinds of histories are not important for 'i told you so's, but to simply have ourselves in an emotional state where witnessing places where we obviously have no influence on our elected officials does not send us into a spiral of panicked, desperate frenzy
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Colin Spacetwinks
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it's not just a way to punch left and scold your enemies: it's also a way to reassure yourself that you have input and influence on your representatives and particular political outcomes, because you're Posting Right.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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i figure a fucking lot! the 'tweets can be vote suppression' trend was a huge peak of this in my opinion. when things are good in their mind, when they feel like they matter, 'twitter isn't real life'. when they feel powerless, internet posts become the hyper real.
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Luis 🦝🐦⬛🤖
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how much of the lashing out is just trying to grapple with that learned helplessness? That they have to have EVERYONE clap at the fairies, or else they all die?
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Colin Spacetwinks
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i am admittedly even more cynical than i used to be about specifically influencing democratic leadership/seniority - and i mean them specifically, not every democrat - because 1/6 happened, multiple attempts on their lives have happened, and even this failed to get their asses in gear
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Colin Spacetwinks
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and a lot of people haven't ever had to really sit with that feeling of powerlessness over what happens with politics and politicians before, just scoffed at it as braindead edgy cynicism, and now that they're feeling it, they don't know what to do, so reactions go all over the place.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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not "there's nothing to be done and we're fucked forever" but "in this specific circumstance - this incredibly important circumstance - we have absolutely no input and we're just stuck feeling shitty about it and trying to make the best out of whatever they end up choosing."
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Colin Spacetwinks
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this is not said as doomer stuff, but that thing leftists are constantly chided to be - 'realistic'. we have no influence here. whatever leadership ends up deciding, good or bad, we cannot affect. it's too fast and too closed off. it's vitally important, it's incredibly public, and we don't matter.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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seeing that you can't "push them left" or indeed you cannot push them to do anything. whatever strategy you have in your mind, whether it's reasonable or workable or not, that it's basically political fanfic because none of us are in these meetings, are on these calls, are able to get their ear
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Colin Spacetwinks
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"what should biden do, what should the democrats do" and it is just blatantly a situation where 99.99 percent of us have no influence on it, in such a small amount of time where we'd have no opportunity to have influence on it, and that reality really fucking some people up hard.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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thought that has been growing in my head a lot over the last year is that a lot of stuff is driven by a growing recognition that we have basically no influence on our elected officials' decisions from people who normally deeply believe in The Political Process and it is causing meltdowns
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Colin Spacetwinks
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people who would sincerely talk about how negative posts are vote suppression forced to witness a series of events that is so obviously entirely elected officials and elites reacting to each other, happening so fast they can't make any plans around it, grappling with a sense of true powerlessness
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Colin Spacetwinks
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this is a situation of where 1. tons of the behavior of electeds and people who do clearly have influence on them are incredibly public, where normally there'd be a lot more behind closed doors and 2. it's so fast and so obviously elite driven you can't even pretend you have influence on it
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Matt Novak
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Happy fourth
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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gotta say between this and the "learn from Abraham Lincoln how to distinguish yourself from people who believe in Black equality" published on Juneteenth it's clear that the vibes at NYT opinion are extremely hostile
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Shiv Ramdas
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OK so while we argue on this site about who should replace Biden Twitter is burning up with WHY DOESNT THE MEDIA COVER TRUMP SEXUALLY ASSAULTING CHILDREN WITH EPSTEIN we really need to stop the discourse on here being so completely led by a handful of white elite dipshits in ac offices
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Wendy Xu
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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure
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Aaron Huertas
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Yascha Mounk joins the ranks of political pundits who are making it clear they have no idea how elections actually work. Anyone who can come up with a way for a party to self-organize a democratically legitimate primary in a month should just go ahead and lay it out!
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@davidgerard.co.uk
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it's been a day and a half and i'm still giggling about Nina Power making it a judicial fact that she's a Nazi with theories about racial fairy aliens
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jamie quinn 🏳️⚧️
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i drop this when folks are clicking to read a performatively bad take by a fascist in the new york times. 1—that’ll make it the best performing piece of the day 2—guy writes for national review—the mag william f buckley founded 3—i know you like wordle, but the nyt has always been like this
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Elizabeth Sandifer
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Difficult to quite express my absolute rage at anyone who looks at a rich and powerful man initiating a sexual relationship with an employee who’s a third his age and goes “you know what’s really fucked up here? It was kinky sex.”
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Radley Balko
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Not that anyone is asking me, but I have no idea what the Democrats should do right now. All the options seem bad, and there isn’t one that seems less bad than the others. And as a professional opinion-haver, it’s disorienting to have no strong opinion about something so enormously consequential.
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@horizontalhold.bsky.social
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There's also the fact that those concerns were party shut down but the media understanding of the Campaign "Dog-whistling" of a one term president. That's just bad mojo.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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one of the problems with professional feminism and the NPIC is shit like this. they'll pour money into marketing/awareness but cut back on DIRECT SERVICE.
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