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I'm left of the Democrats. But I don't think the Democrats keep struggling because they refuse to move left. I think they should move left, but I think if they just did that it would only marginally shift how they've been doing. Because they're not primarily losing because their ideas are not appealing to people or addressing their needs. They should do much better at that but if they did they'd still lose. The Democrats are losing most because the right is creating the reality people live in.

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I'm left of the Democrats. But I don't think the Democrats keep struggling because they refuse to move left. I think they should move left, but I think if they just did that it would only marginally shift how they've been doing. Because they're not primarily losing because their ideas are not appealing to people or addressing their needs. They should do much better at that but if they did they'd still lose. The Democrats are losing most because the right is creating the reality people live in.

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On the other hand the Republicans have a massive and very sophisticated propaganda apparatus that at least tangentially reaches almost every American constantly, even outside of elections. And they've cultivated influencers who reinforce those messages, and have for decades. The Simpsons were making jokes about how effective it was in the mid 90s, it's only gotten better.

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On the other hand the Republicans have a massive and very sophisticated propaganda apparatus that at least tangentially reaches almost every American constantly, even outside of elections. And they've cultivated influencers who reinforce those messages, and have for decades. The Simpsons were making jokes about how effective it was in the mid 90s, it's only gotten better.

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But as far as messaging goes, Democrats keep losing because despite having a platform that's way better for most people now largely hear about Democrats via Republican propaganda. What little they hear outside of that is from a very dysfunctional news media that's been in severe decline for 40 years. That media doesn't reach most people now, and when it does it both sides everything and doesn't behave responsibly or impartially.

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But as far as messaging goes, Democrats keep losing because despite having a platform that's way better for most people now largely hear about Democrats via Republican propaganda. What little they hear outside of that is from a very dysfunctional news media that's been in severe decline for 40 years. That media doesn't reach most people now, and when it does it both sides everything and doesn't behave responsibly or impartially.

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All this discussion of how the Democrats need to shift their messaging and policy to win seems pretty insane to me. First of all there's no guarantee they're going to get a chance to run more campaigns in a fair election. It's very possible, but far from certain. So any contingency planning needs to start with what Trump could do to the country.

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All this discussion of how the Democrats need to shift their messaging and policy to win seems pretty insane to me. First of all there's no guarantee they're going to get a chance to run more campaigns in a fair election. It's very possible, but far from certain. So any contingency planning needs to start with what Trump could do to the country.

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@artcollisions
Not really :/

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@artcollisions
Not really :/

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@artcollisions
It was pretty horrifying

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@artcollisions
It was pretty horrifying

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Last night I had an extremely vivid, realistic, and very undreamlike dream about a society suddenly erupting in the mass killing of queer people. So that's where I am I guess.

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Last night I had an extremely vivid, realistic, and very undreamlike dream about a society suddenly erupting in the mass killing of queer people. So that's where I am I guess.

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You know cause he's on his second non-consecutive term of trying to be well…

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You know cause he's on his second non-consecutive term of trying to be well…

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Some weird sick part of my brain keeps insisting we should all refer to Trump as The Groverführer.

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Some weird sick part of my brain keeps insisting we should all refer to Trump as The Groverführer.

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@TywyllSeren
💜

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@TywyllSeren
💜

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My friends and family and I all fear for ourselves and our country and the world. And there were deliberate choices that people made over and over, people who aren't the electorate, that have left us in a foreseeable and incredibly horrible situation. Again. But worse than last time.

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My friends and family and I all fear for ourselves and our country and the world. And there were deliberate choices that people made over and over, people who aren't the electorate, that have left us in a foreseeable and incredibly horrible situation. Again. But worse than last time.

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My anger at the Democratic party and the Biden administration are really strong today. And not particularly over the last 110 days, over the years and decades before that.

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My anger at the Democratic party and the Biden administration are really strong today. And not particularly over the last 110 days, over the years and decades before that.

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I was listening to something from around six years ago that referenced some work of Kara Swisher's from about ten years before that and talked about what an amazing journalist she was. I was startled before I remembered she had only fairly recently started her plunge into selling our becoming a psychophantic tech billionaire and tech industry apologist six years ago and she used to be a very good journalist.

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I was listening to something from around six years ago that referenced some work of Kara Swisher's from about ten years before that and talked about what an amazing journalist she was. I was startled before I remembered she had only fairly recently started her plunge into selling our becoming a psychophantic tech billionaire and tech industry apologist six years ago and she used to be a very good journalist.

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Whelp I just saw my first popular left wing social media person who has a take on the election that is completely bizarre and seems extremely out of touch with anything that happened and is kind of upsetting. I was starting to hope I wouldn't see any. Oh well, I should probably just try not to think about it.

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Whelp I just saw my first popular left wing social media person who has a take on the election that is completely bizarre and seems extremely out of touch with anything that happened and is kind of upsetting. I was starting to hope I wouldn't see any. Oh well, I should probably just try not to think about it.