I think a lot of people #OnHere (& I mean myself too) really really don't fully get how many people out in the world fundamentally do not know what's happening in the federal govt & don't fully get the stakes of it when they know it's happening. Need to be running major ad campaigns about this shit. - ThreadSky

wolvendamien.bsky.social • 18 days ago

I think a lot of people #OnHere (& I mean myself too) really really don't fully get how many people out in the world fundamentally do not know what's happening in the federal govt & don't fully get the stakes of it when they know it's happening. Need to be running major ad campaigns about this shit.

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itsmimie.bsky.social•18 days ago

But how do we reach folks who are chronically online, yet still disconnected? A lot of people don’t even watch television to see any type of news.

wolvendamien.bsky.social•18 days ago

That's a lot harder, because most things are algorithmically mediated in a way that means it takes way more effort to push through. Without exploits that turn those systems' operations into benefits, we're stuck just trying to shout into the void loud enough for it to sink in

itsmimie.bsky.social•18 days ago

What solutions do you think are possible? Algorithmic culture is something in interesting in as a research area

frangsbo.bsky.social•18 days ago

TBH, I'm trying to work up the gumption to just talk about it a lot with everyone I know IRL. That's what's needed.

wolvendamien.bsky.social•18 days ago

That is definitely also needed.

sassyblackneighbor.bsky.social•18 days ago

We couldn't even get national campaigns on how to properly mask, we're definitely not getting any fascism alarms.

jaysunkei.bsky.social•18 days ago

This is why I get annoyed by people who say "well, we/they voted for this" 😒

suzanneforbes.bsky.social•18 days ago

yeah it seems to me like resourced people should be funding awareness with every commercial outlet they can.

suzanneforbes.bsky.social•18 days ago

booking a skywriter to write "COUP IN PROGRESS" over NYC, a plane with a banner that reads "Elon has our Social Security numbers" flying over LA. Not hard!

gracecannon.bsky.social•18 days ago

And using plain language. “Checks and balances” and “branches of government,” even oligarchy, authoritarianism, fascism don’t mean anything to a lot of people. Coup? Maybe, but “it couldn’t happen here.” Theft. Stealing. Hostile takeover.

cottonhollow.bsky.social•18 days ago

Totally agree. In our butt red town in the mountains I got 50 snail mail flyers for Trump during the election. Not one from a Dem. Burning you sent everyone a snail mail telling them their SSN had been breached? They would sit the fuck up

wolvendamien.bsky.social•18 days ago

Exactly

mashamasha.bsky.social•18 days ago

I got a vague idea when I made a FB post in my very blue city's closed group last week, and amid the replies I expected, I got a few of the old "waa waa cry more, you lost" like the person has been in a time capsule since 2017. Not bots, not trolls, real people with ties to the city,

mashamasha.bsky.social•18 days ago

thinking that this is all about liberals crying because their team lost. I would bet every last one of them has a loved one who depends on federal aid, and has no idea they almost lost it last week. And forget them having any idea that their SSNs are now in the hands of children of the corn.

mashamasha.bsky.social•18 days ago

They simply exist in their own informational space where none of what happened since Jan 20, happened.

Most of the rest don't know which media outlet to trust, and so trust none of them.

I don't have a solution to this, but I'm certain someone on here does. I am but a programmer, I don't know.

mashamasha.bsky.social•18 days ago

PS the post was asking for hair stylist recommendations in the city. My old one had made some Trumpy statements in the past, probably emboldened to make more now, and I don't want my haircut appointment to be a verbal mine field.

waynetheseine.bsky.social•18 days ago

Absolutely. I posted earlier that the DNC needs to cough up some money for some good ads. Lincoln Project could handle that. I would also target Democrat's districts of those voting for Trump's confirmation picks. Go after them hard.

primarydoc.bsky.social•18 days ago

I would love more folks talking about ways they acted IRL rather than meme posting. Maybe like a 3:1 meme to editorial ratio, for example. Or cross post in Nextdoor and write a blurb for the local paper. Better yet, organize a local group to inform people directly.

yosuffvonjohn.bsky.social•18 days ago

Im cringing at the thought of my BLACK family roasting me for dropping everything and leaving ASAP

yosuffvonjohn.bsky.social•18 days ago

I was JUST about to post about this ! Bae and I know every public development and NO ONE ELSE seems to care .
They’re continuing with business as usual and looking at me like Im crazy .

Im WATCHING federal employees in real time take these bogus buyouts for 8months pay. Like :

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