my hot take is I think this is fine. to the extent there's anything doomed-to-failure about it, it's that it's being done on behalf of a party that's run largely by septu- and octogenarians who are gonna struggle to connect no matter what. - ThreadSky

fleerultra.bsky.social • 6 days ago

my hot take is I think this is fine. to the extent there's anything doomed-to-failure about it, it's that it's being done on behalf of a party that's run largely by septu- and octogenarians who are gonna struggle to connect no matter what.

Reposted from Andy Kaczynski

oh my god

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azdak.bsky.social•5 days ago

imo it's kinda telling how important it is to contemporary liberalism to treat "messaging" as totally separate from actual politics or, like, the business of governing. there's never any real articulation of the guiding vision or ultimate goals, just endless marketing of decisions already made

irontuna.bsky.social•6 days ago

“We put a backwards baseball cap on Chuck Schumer, but the youths still say he sucks ass. I don’t get it. I thought we were connecting.”

frontlinedemocracy.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm conducting a poll to find out who Democrats want as their new Senate leader.

If you're interested, you can fill out the form (takes less than 3 minutes):

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/ZpTXcNpDtw

cassiuskent.bsky.social•6 days ago

Worse, it's being run by people who will be given straight up advice on how to not suck, but will completely ignore that advice because it goes against what worked forty years ago.

lorifreshwater.bsky.social•6 days ago

No it’s not. 20 million fucking dollars for this? Nothing fine about it.

kanexan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Research costs money, and doing a massive research effort into how video games, video game spaces, and the general sphere of 'online young men' become radicalized as well as figuring out how to effectively send the Democratic message in those spaces is going to cost a lot!

kanexan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Like it's not like they're just giving $10 million to Fortnite and $10 million to Overwatch and calling it a day, this is a research project into new ground for the party, new ground that we clearly are fighting uphill in. It's better than the "find a Rogan of the Left" bullshit by a country mile!

jedgeco.bsky.social•6 days ago

Also, "a prospectus obtained by the Times" doesn't even mean anyone is going to do any of this stuff! Everyone in Washington has a "prospectus" for how they would like to spend $20 million; it doesn't mean anyone will give it to them!

frecklered.bsky.social•5 days ago

You know, they'd have a lot more success to just drop it in a burn barrel at a homeless camp
At least it would keep some people warm for awhile

tranarchist1312.bsky.social•6 days ago

You can’t do authentic communication via focus groups. The Democrats as a party don’t believe in much and they are very thin skinned, so having commentators who are generally on their side but demand more radicalism won’t work for them; and that’s what the right have.

kierk.bsky.social•6 days ago

i mean the main issue is the opportunity costs. they’re going to take that money and more or less light it on fire when they could do something useful with it

kierk.bsky.social•6 days ago

like give it to me, for example

flashgordon.bsky.social•6 days ago

my two points about this strategy: 1) rather than try to study and explain their syntax to those septuagenarians or whatever, just hire some dirtbag dudes and let them cook. 2) putting ads in videogames is a bad idea. yes, dudes would see them... but they would cause "dems = annoying" association.

tendehka.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have no faith that they'll actually execute well, but this sort of ponderous and cringe committee is how changes like ad updates get made.

We're so fucked lmao

shepherdone.bsky.social•5 days ago

Stop it. We have met the enemy... https://bsky.app/profile/shepherdone.bsky.social/post/3lpzzga2uqk25

dlnhlgsn.bsky.social•6 days ago

$20 mill to get Cumtown back together

frecklered.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's $20mil being laundered into the pockets of the consultant class so they can afford the things we the people can't

chesedgevurah.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's literally "How do you do, my fellow kids" as party policy

benmahtin.bsky.social•6 days ago

most strategic attempts to “connect” from either side seem doomed to failure. Whether it’s Trump or Bernie, authenticity is more effective than studying vocab for twitch streamers

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