really good insight and it sounds like a good opportunity for the DNC to find those channels rather than give up and court suburban conservatives.

you make a lot of really persuasive points. if only the campaign had communicated them.

i think the chronically online politics sphere overestimates how much the average voter knows by about 100-fold and that’s why we get comments like this.

when mcdonalds releases a new burger and no one buys it, we blame the product and the marketing. but when the DNC drops a new candidate, there is no room to talk about the candidate or the marketing for some reason—it’s all finger pointing and blaming one another for not “just getting” information that’s all but kept hidden from a population with >20% rates of low literacy.

The time to resist was at the ballot box.

the quiet part out loud. :( pay attention to why you said this. politics and loving your neighbor does not end on election night.

honestly good on us for learning and quitting the cycle of clicking the outrage headlines and instead working together to minimize damage as a community

the resistance, if it exists, is you, not some profit seeking ad-running corporate entity. i hope things keep being this way.

i think there’s a bit more to the story than that but sure haha

edit: looked him up and he was an adviser to reagan? ew.

There should be a counterpart to “copaganda” for legal shows and media that depict the court as a pristine, high-stakes, yet ultimately fair process. It’s intriguing to witness people’s initial confrontations with corruption in this context—I understand their defensiveness, as the introduction of cognitive dissonance can be super uncomfortable.

On another note, it’s disheartening to consider how what you experienced likely contributes to the disproportionate legal contempt faced by POC compared to white individuals. Perceptions of rudeness vary widely across cultures, which can definitely influence systemic racism in the legal system.

oops! you put words in my mouth :) common mistake.

i hate how people cram words into your mouth like this. thanks for being sane and normal. :)

i get and agree with the sentiment that donald trump will be worse in relation to the unbridled support of genocidal israel

but framing 40,000+ murders as “you haven’t seen shit yet” is inappropriately dismissive. we have fucking seen shit. have some empathy when you use other people’s suffering to justify your internet argument.

i need this information to start being treated as the act of oppression it is rather than the “americans dumb lol” framing i see even in leftist spaces.

americans, and disproportionately minority americans, are being intentionally refused education in the same way they are refused medical care—in service of cost cutting and privatization interests rather than public wellbeing and economic wellness.

thank fuck there’s at least one other angry & correct person online

you don’t get to capitulate to donald trump’s racist violent classist framing on everything for years and be held blameless after the fact.

not defending the bogus use of the cloud to host sensitive data, nor do i unquestioningly believe this? but correcting the record since you did 80% of the work in finding the link:

Be assured that the sensitive health data you track in the Clue app is never shared with or sold to advertisers, or any partners whose services we may recommend in Clue.

If you actually read what you sent it seems like the only data that is shared to advertisers is standard marketing stuff like IP, device ID, age group, and location. Still bad and I stand with others recommending locally hosted FOSS alternatives.

thanks, i have corrected my misreading in an edit. apologies for any undue hard feelings.

good news! spoke with my admin and my instance isn’t hosted in the US which means there’s very little danger and i get to stick around :D

even better news? Lemmy’s block feature works pretty well so I won’t have to deal with this cringey ass spammy ass comment behavior from you again ❤️❤️❤️❤️

yeah careful tho .world mods were removing comments giving instructions to find it since it’s against their tos

“women deciding what to do with THEIR bodies will eventually face the opposite (further misogyny) and that’s THEIR fault, actually”

sexism apologia? upvoted on my fediverse? it’s actually not a fucking surprise. this place is a toxic masculine hellhole

for the record, in no case is it acceptable to blame the self-preserving actions of a minority for radicalizing the majority. that is the language of abuse and oppression.

says that the Democrats have a messaging problem with working-class voters

Every other comment here is ignoring this word to the point it almost seems intentional. Read it carefully. Low-income union voters who swayed Republican are voting against their self interests, yes. But this was not adequately communicated to them.

This union leader isn’t saying that union voters are blameless. They are saying that union voters were fed destructive information which compounded with existing white supremacist and conservative bias.

Lemmy read the post challenge, impossible.

insane how far i had to scroll to find this. my first thought was “yo a lot of instances are hosted in the US i’d hate for this power tripping admin to get those servers in trouble for content that isn’t theirs” but apparently everyone else’s first thought was “wow you must be a nazi for caring go die mad” :(

fortunately my admin has informed me they think my instance is safe but like that’s not a given for everyone! i think it’s fair to check in with your admins just to be safe

Report all you want. This is not getting taken down. Fuck nazis. —seahorse at midwest.social, admin, in a post with multiple calls to violence in the comments.

this is actually wild. i have no defense for nazis either but using your federation privileges like this is abuse of the system. midwest.social is not the only instance on the fediverse and instances that are receptive to this content being pushed across fedi are beholden to local law. i have petitioned my admin to defederate midwest.social as i want my instance to stay online.

are you allergic to believing that two things can be true at once