It would be nice if they could also realize they're up against a myth. The man doesn't matter as much, you have to counter the myth to win people over.
I love how American's are so proud of themselves, but also need to be spoon feed information. Taking 5 minutes a day to look up news online is beneath them
You gotta admit Twitter is rigged as fuck against anything Elon does want not seen. Facebook ending factchecking and the old white dudes who only know how to use Facebook is also a recipe for disaster.
Biden and his White House released various - mocking - quotes on background about how libs on twitter were being hysterical and how twitter isn't that important
This is bigger than Dems 2025. This was Weimar 1930s too. It’s human nature: moderate establishment elites are unable to shake entrenched, small-mindedness in the face of a radical systemic threat. They even gatekeep the street brawlers in the party who could actually make a difference, ex AOC
Even when this wasn’t the case, the best, most comprehensive sources of information were behind paywalls so real, quality journalism never circulated outside of subscribers other than headlines.
Meanwhile free right wing trash circulates unimpeded like wildfire.
There are wealthy activist liberals but they’ve tended to put their money towards liberal/progressive policy endeavors here and abroad rather than investing in media, I suspect because they think that NYT and WaPo and NPR will do the political truth-telling.
What too many liberals seem to not understand is that policy is downstream of politics—if you can’t control the politics, all your wonderful policy initiatives will eventually be strangled in their cribs. And if you are totally powerless in the news media ecosystem, you’re fucked politically.
One of the most striking things I’ve read about Liberalism is that it tries to rationalize, to reason with its most odious enemies. That needs to stop.
The GOP is where it’s at because it’s been broken and gutted from within.
Dems need to attack rather defend.
The key thing Will has said, for me, is that public opinion IS power. This whole, "We the Democrats have no leverage thing" is not the flex they think it is. If they speak up, we speak up. When we speak up, we help convince our friends and family who call their Republican representatives.
Yeah you can post 3,000 times per hour, why aren’t influencers like you being hired by Dems to head liberal troll farms? I am being serious, not joking.
who DIDN'T see this other than the brain dead bluewave morons who may as well be flat earthers with their beliefs that joe could still win after the debate
no less than will's "HAH, SEE?? YOU SEE?? PEOPLE THOUGHT ME AN ECCENTRIC FOOL, BUT I SCRYED THE SACRED GLYPHS AND SAW THE TAPESTRY OF THE FUTURE LAID BEFORE ME, AND NOW IT HAS COME TO PASS JUST AS I PREDICTED"
it's just fun. like replying to a smug "told you so" post with "you had 50/50 odds bro"
You ENGAGE. You TAKE PART IN POLITICS. You GO OUT AND SHOUT YOURSELF HOARSE IF CIRCUMSTANCES DEMAND IT. You REACT.
What you DON'T do is sit around and deliberate endlessly about the correct way to respond to things. Just respond, immediately, with your sincere views.
Republicans are a Trojan Horse dressed as Confederates & Nazis, but it’s really oligarchs and techno-feudalists that are reshaping the nation to subjugate its laws to monetize its power. The GOP is against the Middle Class and the Poor.
How about going on Bluesky to talk about how what's happening is against the law, but you could have prevented it if you acted in December, but you've got a fix which is to make a new law, which you cannot do.
The ultrarich own all these things. They are the right wind because they know they will get massive tax breaks and loosening up of regulations. Even the ones who claim they are for progressive values and ideas will always vote for their pocketbooks first. It's a class war.
Billionaires own US media, which is overwhelmingly right wing. We need that kind of economic power behind liberal causes. Why don’t we have it? Because billionaires don’t want to help us. It’s against their interests. Cuban talks a good game, but he hasn’t put his money where his mouth is, has he?
Of course we’re on our own, but what you propose is pollyannaish. The left wing media landscape is so fractured that this will not happen unless there is a galvanizing leader.
There's a reason why a governor in flyover country became a VP candidate in a month... and the complete opposite reason why he's back in flyover country instead of DC.
Let’s not over think it. Talking doesn’t use up resources. Network and cable news appearances, podcasts, blogs, live stream on TikTok, IG and Twitch. Just talk informally, directly, and continuously. Talk and take control of political narratives.
That would be a waste of capital unless the right tried to purchase it to shut down left discourse. It’s functionally that already. What they need to do is develop proficiency in using it.
Bluesky shouldn't be owned by a billionaire, it should be a worker cooperative (a democratic business). We fix this by forming worker-owned and co-op media that is easily accessible and cuts to the facts (AP is a news co-op). We talk about economic democracy and offer real solutions, not fascism.
lefty media must stop paywalling everything. lefty moguls must start their own papers/outlets in right controlled markets. dems must pivot left and give up the tired and idiotic dream of pulling "the good republicans" over
dems spend way too much time deciding whether to act and how to act in a way that appeals to the most voters, instead of acting. this must also die. it will if they toss everyone over about 70 out
I think some didn't want to sell to the more liberal billionaires but they didn't try as hard. Hell people thought Bezos wasn't going to fuck with the Post which he really didn't for years. But I don't think any democrat wants to use pac funds and spend decades building the network the right did
Among the left so many talk down to people. So many here act like no one knows what is going on except them, instead of realizing they are preaching to the choir. How many post the exact same thing as they jockey for position within the hierarchy. Where are the fresh voices and ideas?
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which is why Will and others were begging Democrats to do everything in their power to stop the sale
Meanwhile free right wing trash circulates unimpeded like wildfire.
The GOP is where it’s at because it’s been broken and gutted from within.
Dems need to attack rather defend.
it's just fun. like replying to a smug "told you so" post with "you had 50/50 odds bro"
i suppose it's a sign of my age that i don't find that fun
What you DON'T do is sit around and deliberate endlessly about the correct way to respond to things. Just respond, immediately, with your sincere views.
https://bsky.app/profile/highlandsurfer.bsky.social/post/3librtq22fk2o
Incredible
Russia won.
Mostly Dems just need to…do things political parties are meant for, instead of nothing