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If you blame/attack Democrats more than Republicans, you are not on the left.
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It’s silly, but it is also true that NYT headlines are what create and feed the atmospheric information environment where most people do get their news.
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Technically, they’re *incorrectly* pulling numbers from usaspending.gov and misinterpreting them.
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She’s talking about you.
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I know a lot of people who have eschewed social media for discord servers for exactly this reason.
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(Yes, I originally posted this on Reddit but I want to start putting more of my writing elsewhere.)
(Yes, I also recognize the irony.)
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Vacations, friendships, political beliefs — all of them are not measured by some internal rubric of happiness or actualization, but rather, by how many likes or retweets they’ll get.
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Social media was originally invented to bring personal interconnections online. It has done the opposite: it has destroyed personal interconnections and replaced them with parasocial interaction gamification.
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These damages have seeped into every aspect of daily life, fraying the bonds of society as people turn one another into content for their social media feeds: questions for this subreddit or AITA, videos for TikTok exposes, subtweets for facebook status updates, stories to regale on YouTube.
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And?
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The only reason Obamacare still exists is because it was an iterative solution.
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No, the first step is to stop doing the thing where crying about not having M4A leads people to let the GOP take the wheel.
We’d almost certainly have at the very least a public option right now if the same people attacking Dems all the time had just voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Reforming a massive chunk of the largest economy on earth is difficult, yes, and I think being deliberative about it is a good thing.
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No, they don’t. Some have a national insurance mandate that is subsidized. Some have nationally run insurance. Some have care that is run by local governments. They’re all different, which is the point.
That doesn’t mean the U.S. system is great. It means people peddling one answer are myopic.
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Because they all do it differently from one another too, implying that there is no one best path.
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Some rando? It was near universal comments made on every social media platform. It was gross and the paper of record should cover it.
Social media is increasingly influencing real life. If people online are cheering on murder, that seems like news.
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I’m not sure anyone has been more consistently wrong and smug over the last decade than Nathan Robinson, so at least he has the credentials in that area.
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Twitter's principal utility (from a content curation perspective) is in journalists' willingness to post there; without it, Twitter quickly becomes 4chan. Journalists, make it happen. The only thing keeping you there is stasis. We can have nice things.
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In fairness, this was in the SOTU: www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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This is at least a more honest argument than the chart.
I agree that Obama and Biden are largely post-DLC figures. But that seems to be something that changes depends on who’s making the argument.
This author, for example, seems to argue Obama as a continuation of it due to its political success.
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Well the fact that the party control of the presidency is nearly impossible to see would seem to be relevant.
As would the ideological makeup of that big blue blob from 1955-1997.
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It’s honestly impressive how misleading this is. You’ve outdone yourself.
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Often, criticism of the “party” is actually criticism of “people on the internet” and I think we should always be precise about that, because otherwise how can we know what to solve for moving forward?