elquain.bsky.social
Social media is a sickness
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Wherever voters get their information, it's not seventeen grafs into a newspaper story which is about the only place that truthfully communicates policy impacts. Democrats need to understand that and figure out how to get their story out vs. relying on MSM to do their job
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I'm sure Democrats have learned that just passively adopting the Republican point of view rather than aggressively stating their own isn't a pathway to victory, since it has only failed them every time they've tried it.
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The people in power were not of a mind to fight against this moment and they failed to prevent it. They can silently slink off and hope that Trump doesn't toss them in prison.
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My blame goes back to 2008 when they rode Bush's embarrassment into a trifecta and did nothing with it and the runs right up into Biden's term of Merrick Garland and forgive and forget. Harris's campaign was fine for something spun up in a few months.
But it's time to clean the Democratic house.
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We can only hope. Partially related, the only redeeming quality Trump has is that he makes everyone who supports him eventually eat shit and I'm just praying he decimates Elon. Sure, he'll just replace him with Bezos or something, but we need to take what we can get
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Nah I think we should start/continue blaming Merrick Garland for being a sack of shit, today. There's no need to wait and no worry we'll over do it.
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Now that the job is done, the NYT puts away Photoshop and is prepared to be the loyal opposition to get those liberal subs back.
"One sub = one news story calling a spade a spade"
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MTS posts the same meme 200 times a day, proves to be completely accurate, and the few remaining elected Dems are going to walk away thinking, "shit, we gotta appeal to Riley Gaines and give Elon Musk more government contracts"
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The takeaway is going to be a bunch of dumb shit because grappling with "the electorate thought the economy was in a depression when it was very clearly not" involves a lot of uncomfortable questions...
so instead let's blame student protestors, trans kids, and not beating refugees enough
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They amassed all of these troops right on the border while people in power said, "Nah, it's fine" and well, 2024 was the year they pulled the trigger and went for it.
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I'm not sure what political power you actually need. Republicans weren't exactly swimming in it since 2008... we just allowed every media apparatus to be bought up by Republican friendly owners and do exactly what we all knew they would do.
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Make elections like roguelites, the incumbents have to pick a debuff to make the next run harder.
CHOOSE:
1. All women in states beginning with A are worth 20% less vote power
2. You must take Rahm Emanuel as a primary campaign surrogate
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The needle is scabbing, don't give it the angst it so desperately wants
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But... but what about the butter?
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1. Elon cannot possibly find the free time to go to court, he's running six companies!
2. There's like a 50-50 chance he's just paying people to play for him so he can claim this
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We've hit the next step of "every guy thinks about the Roman empire daily" discourse, which is "damn, Rome and its bath houses knew what's up!"
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There's absolutely a path to just running a lefty version of Trump -- famous and charismatic -- that just fucking blows the Republicans out of the water. I firmly believe Taylor Swift would make whomever they run look like Bob Dole.
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20 bags of mixed candy / candy paper from back in the early 90's because I don't know what anything costs in a gas station anymore
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"THAT'S WHAT THE SEX IS FOR!"
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Costco is hallowed ground, no blood can be shed there. They're invincible.
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It's your father being radicalized by Fox News, but on a grand scale, of our entire media infrastructure.
Seems bad!
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Anyone who wants to walk around a neighborhood for ten cent pieces of candy can have some candy. 40 year old mom wants some after her two kids get some? Hell yeah, have double.
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Have you considered choosing a more in demand character class?
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Polling is... fine? Maybe not anymore.
A website dedicated to aggregating the polls into a who's gonna win number that ultimately means nothing is what is useless.
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(yes, obviously, the money)
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She's not wrong... but it immediately begs the question why they're doing any of this.
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1/100 calls might be someone you're willing to talk to, 1/100,000 is going to be the actual emergency you'd care about... and voicemail exists for both of those events. In a world with IMs, texts, and the aforementioned voicemail only weirdos and olds would engage with a random caller
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Taxes are good policy and good politics!
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And every time we have an opportunity to take their money and reduce their power, we worry about the optics in two years rather than recognize that leaving them to fester is a much bigger problem then an ad about Democrats taking Amazon's founders billions
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Will America ever figure this out? Probably not until long after Grok is handing out prescriptions that pharmacies are obligated to fulfill and orders hospitals are responsible to honor!
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There should be entire university classes dedicated to building out political/governmental philosophy based on Elon Musk.
Why do you enforce laws? Because if you don't some South African weirdo is gonna have child-killing robocars and is gonna suggest letting a half baked AI do medical diagnoses
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I mean this with none of the negativity typically associated with it -- she's one of the best examples because she didn't have to act like a billionaire to become a billionaire.
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I'm wagering he's gonna commit a few different labor violations by publicly firing Alexandra Petri while she's on maternity leave and then telling the public it's their fault for canceling
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Pick a non-Twitter platform and just support it wholesale. There's no reason to live on Twitter with Nazis and no general engagement. It's an opportunity for Democrats to stake a claim and it won't cost them $44bn to do.
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Yes, thank you. He's the King of the parade of people that kind of suck, but liberals glomped onto as heroes of the movement.
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But I am changing hearts and minds with my posts that get nineteen views and one reply (from an angry Nazi and/or sex bot)
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Yeah, Jon Stewart has always had the hack bone in his body, but had funny coworkers and cleared the low bar for calling a spade a spade during some egregiously terrible media years.
None of this is a surprise.
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It would make more sense if someone cured cancer and we gave them more money that God, not these idiots.
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I know this isn't the point, but it's particularly dumb that two of our richest people are "guy who leveraged logistics organization into Online Walmart" and "guy who took his first mover advantage in EVs to build cars that want to run over children"
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And anyone who confidently says junk like "there's a 72% chance Trump wins!" gets to take credit for being right if he wins and point to the 28% if he loses, no matter the true probability.
Total snakes who are making up unfalsifiable shit for clout
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This is how Final Fantasy VII started! If anyone sees a man researching ten foot long katanas you have a civic duty to report it to the authorities!
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That or they're the annoying types who think calling it a coin flip invalidates all the work people have to put in to vote rather than just describes the probability
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They have the secret polling data that says the guy who was once President, and then lost the presidency on the back of a handful of people in Georgia of all places, has no possible chance of winning again.
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Tax advantaged savings account for buying wicked cool dungeon and tavern miniatures?
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They absolutely should have -- who the fuck called up Bezos to check in before they just sent it?
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Let's not cast blame, let's just ask which department of the federal government is gonna be the one drag Elon Musk into a dark warehouse and waterboard him. Not for information, just because that's what should happen to him.
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The arc of this all only makes sense if Merrick Garland, immediately after the polls close, hits Joe Biden with a steel chair and joins Donald Trump's faction
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Well, the Elon money came with strings and those strings are you need to spend it all on attacking the daughter he hates.
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I feel like there's one good Helen and I can't remember her last name, so I'm constantly confused if the good Helen went bad.
Me and Trump, united together in our brains slowly leaking out of our ears