plentie.bsky.social
Interested in opinion polling. And how the mainstream press frames stories. Third-culture person.
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When far right is normal, everyone else is left
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The ambiguity is intentional. This is not a poll designed to bring insight, but to provoke debate. Insert your preferred explanation here.
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It *is* much more interesting, and insightful. But not nearly as emotive as a moral panic, so it will never get the same attention.
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It *is* much more interesting, and insightful. But not nearly as emotive as a moral panic, which is why it doesn't get as many clicks.
And a narrative that presents men as victims a powerful for people who profit from grievance.
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Can't wait for a renowned social psychologist to write a bestseller about this.
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And you only wanted to know why they wouldn't recommend your brand.
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It's the exact same playbook. Blame a powerless out-group for genuine problems, with simplistic but emotionally satisfying messaging giving people suffering from these problems an outlet for their anger while masking/ignoring the true cause.
And enrich/make famous the people leading the way.
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In 2015 I would absolutely not have self-identified with the political left, but I absolutely would today. Have I become more left-wing? Possibly, but the real reason is the Overton window has shifted. What were firmly centrist views in 2015 are now left-wing.
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Such leading framing in the headline and the usual newspaper language - money 'handed' to studios who 'pocket' it
If you want a sensible debate on whether foreign investment in the crestive industries should be tax-subsidised that's fine, but this isn't a sensible way to report on it.
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The pundit and polling classes require grist for the mill.
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I do understand and sympathise with that perspective. But despite its origins, YouGov has proven its trustworthiness.
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Polling from two years ago. Opinions have become more negative since then. yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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As Bobby has noted, if you change the question wording you lose the ability to compare. Of course, no-one should word it this way today, if they didn't have to.
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That doesn't work either, as trans women can have had a vulvoplasty.
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In my country at least, it's the MSM that is the problem. No shortage of triggers on Bluesky of course, but it's also a place of refuge and sanity.
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Lots of modern tech is affordable or free to the end user, but many would agree that society has paid a price for the transformation it has wrought.
I think tech-scepticism is healthy and causes no harm, even if it sometimes creates blind spots. But blind allegiance to tech can be harmful.
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Not everyone has a few extra pounds a month, or a broadband connection. Or the knowledge to deploy the tool.
Even before AI, the digital divide was real. AI will further help those with the means and skills, and will hurt those without.
I'm far from a doomer btw. I'm well aware of the +ves.
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Not surprising that an overwhelmingly left-wing community would be viscerally opposed to a technology which threatens human workers, which transfers wealth and capital to the already wealthy, and which broadens the gap between those who can, and those who can't.
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Thank you. I deleted my own sarcastic reply after your intervention.
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Hence the court's hollow imploring for this to not be seen as a "triumph", knowing full well it would be.
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I can understand why a lawyer would say this. However, the decision has implications far beyond the legal domain.
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I think one of those where the newer meaning has become so widespread that we have to accept it, even if we hate it.
'Performative' is another example.
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No chance it will get better, thanks to Starmer's Faustian deal with Big Media. No scrutiny, in exchange for the attack dogs holding off briefly prior to the election.
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When we're feeling smug in our liberal exceptionalism, telling ourselves what's happening in the US could never happen here, remember this person was Prime Minister less than three years ago.
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More evidence that Sunder is quite possibly the most polling-literate of pundits
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I hate that people don't realize just how much words matter when talking about "autism" (autistic people). Like they do actually shape how the public thinks about us. If they just hear "autism" they don't connect it to people who exist. They think it's a *thing* that can be manipulated or researched
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Forget the circulation figures. The real power of Bìg Media today is in generating inflammatory headlines which get shared far and wide on social.
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All authoritarians desperately want to be loved, yet fail to grasp that love never emerges from fear and coercion.
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And what % of the general public have a sufficient understanding of tariffs to be able to offer a meaningful opinion?
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Straight from the MAGA playbook, a copy/paste attack that brought down several prominent liberals in the US.
Imagine what they'd be saying if Carney were a woman, or a person of colour?
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Not going to happen, unfortunately. The UK needs to cosy up to China thanks to Brexit, and more than ever thanks to current shenanigans emanating from Washington.
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Not wishing to diminish the serious and important message, but one in six women in England and Wales are aged 70+, so they're still less likely than younger women to be murder victims.
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Agreed. There important points in there about families, suicide, prison and others, but these problems aren't new.
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It a manufactured moral panic. The reason why males now lag females in areas such as earnings and education is because women have progressed massively. Men haven't gone backwards - but women have moved forward quicker.
It's a positive story reframed in a negative, reactionary way.