If I were to summarize the new print mag feature (online today) by @tessastuart.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social & me for @rollingstone.com in a sentence I’d prob say: Somehow over the past decade, the party of liberal Hollywood completely forgot how to tell an effective story to… - ThreadSky

swin24.bsky.social • 43 days ago

If I were to summarize the new print mag feature (online today) by @tessastuart.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social & me for @rollingstone.com in a sentence I’d prob say:

Somehow over the past decade, the party of liberal Hollywood completely forgot how to tell an effective story to…

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gray9312.bsky.social•43 days ago

Kamala Harris lost because half of America is racist and won't vote for a black woman.

danancona.bsky.social•43 days ago

This is great, but there’s better people to talk to about the ad strategy than some guy who watched them from hotel rooms

robairone.bsky.social•43 days ago

fenderjazz2112.bsky.social•43 days ago

When there is ZERO pushback on something like post-birth abortion, those believers need to be roundly defeated at the ballot box and then completely ignored. FULL STOP. Reason is NOT in their toolbox. Let’s stop pretending it is.

joe-yousta-be.bsky.social•43 days ago

If nothing else, “You can’t argue with stupid people. They will only drag you down to their level and beat you with ignorance.”

We have to become ‘mean’ to break through that psychological armor they put up.

joe-yousta-be.bsky.social•43 days ago

I was raised by parents who told me regularly that they brought me into the world and they can take me out of it (legally).

Some idiots associated killing a newborn… I’ve watched conservatives work each other up to absurd conclusions…fabricating in real-time.

zoopaul.bsky.social•43 days ago

But Democrats think they're telling an effective story. Unfortunately it's one aimed at people with grad school degrees.

rawrtigerlily.bsky.social•43 days ago

I think it was worse that they dialed down all the strong economic progressive narratives & started doing a “nothing will change and we will work bipartisanly with the Republicans who intentionally have obstructed our equitable, populist goals for the last 40 years. Also, should have let Walz…

rawrtigerlily.bsky.social•43 days ago

Continue to stay out there calling the people who want to own & control everyone else “weird” and whatever other candid, real shit he wanted.

zoopaul.bsky.social•43 days ago

The obsession for being bipartisan with people who have no desire to do anything but dominate is a bizarre affectation of elected Democrats.

swin24.bsky.social•43 days ago

…American voters — and that’s one big reason why we’re facing the rise of the increasingly authoritarian Trump 2.0

Read/share/subscribe/ yell:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/campaign-2024-democrats-failure-1235230952/

nobodynohow.bsky.social•43 days ago

Let's not overlook that voters liked that fascist message.

chefjbsatterwhite.bsky.social•43 days ago

I feel like the massive right wing media/propaganda machine is vastly under reported as is the Republican party’s shameless lying. I am not sure why major news outlets just frame it as a political tactic as opposed to a serious breach of the public trust

thinkingrealhard.bsky.social•43 days ago

How owns the major media outlets?

There is your answer.

djsipe.bsky.social•43 days ago

I think sadly, the answer is they found that everyone on the right tunes out anything that triggers cognitive dissonance. The echo chambers are sealed.

rawrtigerlily.bsky.social•43 days ago

I mean, as far as I have seen a big part of the problem is that 16 to 24 year old men are mostly getting their “news” & current events from right wing manosphere podcasts & YouTube, and “random” posts on places like discord. How do you reach people who don’t want to hear anything you have to say?

chefjbsatterwhite.bsky.social•43 days ago

I agree this is a massive problem, also 1/3 of the voting age population didn’t vote, we have a voter problem as well as a propaganda problem

gengarro.bsky.social•43 days ago

Because the major news outlets would love an environment where they can just report whatever they feel like without needing to actually investigate or verify it

ionlylivehere.bsky.social•43 days ago

Paywall slammed closed in my face. I doorbelled in Wisconsin. One young male, still living with his parents, had earlier finished Rogan’s podcast. He was in a trance telling me if I listened to it, it would change my life. Extremely ignorant, and economically challenged males made the difference.

neilyoungsaveus.bsky.social•43 days ago

The only way they blew it was not contesting an election with voter roll purging, gerrymandering, voter intimidation, 60 bomb threats and numerous experts calling foul over irregularities. Clearly stolen by elno, putin, bibi et al.

griddygentilly.bsky.social•43 days ago

The article pretty much details how it happened though. Voters today want authenticity. A bunch of rich, white, liberals in Hollywood trying to tell the stories of the underprivileged is just not working anymore. I should be right in their target demo and even I cringe at it more often than not

griddygentilly.bsky.social•43 days ago

The Democrats need to stop testing every message to death and nominate normal people at all levels and let them run wild

pawtez.bsky.social•43 days ago

Agree they gotta promote normal people in the party. But somehow the election was won by a bunch of out of touch billionaires so I don't think it's quite that simple

griddygentilly.bsky.social•43 days ago

Oh it's definitely not simple. We're probably talking about a process that takes a generation to take hold

justamaggie.bsky.social•43 days ago

Kind of hard to share our story and the truth when we have a knee throttling our neck by big tech and all media. Now it’s only going to get worse I’m afraid, and we’re so tired of arguing with MAGA nuts. In 9 days we have a convicted criminal in running the asylum. But we will press on I suppose.

mjr1.bsky.social•43 days ago

100%

waterly.bsky.social•43 days ago

Loved Kamala BUT her ‘I can’t think of anything I would do differently’ approach was ridiculous! Education, healthcare, workforce, commerce, women’s rights, justice! All have stagnated under our mistaken belief we extraordinary. And the Biden team was delusional and insular.

waterly.bsky.social•43 days ago

The problem is the old Dems let themselves become the party of the institutions and status quo. We truthfully know these all need to be rebuilt! We do have a bad justice system, but white guys aren’t who’s being hurt. We’re too often coy and dishonest.

hankhoffmanct.bsky.social•43 days ago

It seems that, fundamentally, Democratic cowardice leads them to a place of inautheticity. Relying on data is a substitute for having confidence in your own values and your willingness to fight for them.

This has been a problem with the Democrats since at least the Reagan era.

lanceblair.bsky.social•43 days ago

The Pelosi Party.
We all talk about how Trump hijacked the GOP but Nancy screwed us over.

mjr1.bsky.social•43 days ago

If I were to summarize, it I'd say outlets like Rolling Stone still can't seem to figure out that Musk weaponized twitter against its own users, using psychographic targeting and feed manipulation to depress Dem turnout and create a few million new bro voters who are misinformed about everything.

mtgoish.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yes it was not only corporate mainstream media but also social networks (the big one twitter) that handed pumpkin tits the presidency

mjr1.bsky.social•43 days ago

IMHO, corporate media is infuriating but still 1A-ish. Social media psychographic targeting is weaponry, and should be regulated as such.

nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social•43 days ago

They suppressed all blue accounts. Free and fair my azz when the billionaire Bond villains buy up media \ platform \ influencers for Trump for no taxes or USA laws .👹👹👹

mjr1.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yes. Every user of twitter understands this except for, it seems, mainstream journalists.

nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social•43 days ago

Right? They were bought before Twitter. He wanted Twitter gone because it was too effective a resistance tool for the globe. Why after Trump won Elon said NWO out loud!👹👹👹

el-condor-pasa.bsky.social•43 days ago

Not sure I understand “liberal hollywood” when its ownership resides in conservatives hands.

kja.bsky.social•43 days ago

It's baffling that I grew up (rural South) believing that Dems were the party of the wealthy. A massive number of voters still believe that. How do they as a supposed political party let that narrative run wild for decades?

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