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  • there are lots of websites out there … You can literally do that on a break

    Correct. Now your task, should you choose to accept it, is to show someone how to do that. Teach them to do their research. Easy? Now come up with a way to communicate the same message to maybe 150 million people. And make sure they don’t ignore it.

    This is why strategies like advertising, canvassing, and media interviews are effective. Unlike expecting voters to “just do the research,” these methods meet people where they already are—at home, watching TV, listening to the radio, scrolling through social media, or catching up on the news. They reach voters directly, without assuming any prior knowledge or effort on their part.



  • 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.







  • thanks, and not trying to be combative here :) i just know how discourse molds and progresses and it’s just a few short steps from the comments and name calling i’m seeing here to “pro-Palestine caused trump”

    when in reality biden/harris actively ignored the petitioning of multiple vital demographics including latino, young, and low-income voters—all of which played out very poorly. it speaks volumes that i haven’t seen a single post about these demographics yet and multiple about Arab-Americans.

    just be careful yall! your neighbors need you



  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneepic ratio rule
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    it’s the !world@lemmy.world mod team that’s just really abrasive and destructive. i usually post failures of moderation to !modlog@lemmy.world because it’s the least front loaded with conceptions of self interest, but that still comes up almost every time with the accusations of butthurt. and overall still it’s almost impossible to call out stuff that is outside the scope of the interests of the english speaking, white, christian or atheist male.

    it’s really just sad, cuz here you have a massive example of a leftist and progressive space but with no will to engage with the existing global community. it’s like, “women exist, muslim individuals exist, POC exist but actually no we prefer to talk about OUR experiences byeeeeee.”







  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonebe flipping for rule
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    took this opportunity to look up frequency of ambidexterity—it’s about 1% which means, depending on definitions, ambidextrous individuals are born at about the same rate as trans people and half as frequently as intersex people. and all of these incidence rates excede the rate of shiny pokemon in gen ii!