Podcasts are super popular right now. Theo Von, Joe Rogan, Kill Tony, Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker all have a huge audience. They are all pro Trump; Tony famously spoke at a Trump rally, and Rogan is constantly pushing a pro conservative message.
Social networks have all gone to the right, as their leadership stands to benefit. Most of our major newspapers and entertainment networks are also owned by billionaires.
They own the messaging right now, and people aren’t thinking critically because they are either distracted or don’t know how.
Part of it is that the left isn’t seen as fun. We’re too serious and judgmental all the time. Many times there’s good reasons for that but young people don’t want to constantly hear about taxation and proper pronoun usage. Talk about legalizing LSD or something once in a while.
And yes, I understand that the right isn’t fun in a way that most people would want to be but there is definitely something to be said for not gatekeeping language to an absurd degree. Let people express themselves without all the “well actually that’s ableist because…” interjections. People only listen to you a finite amount. If you burn through your educational goodwill on minor stuff no one is going to listen when you warn them about important stuff like fascists taking over the government.
Up until the week or two before Biden dropped out blue no matter who folks were talking about what a great candidate Joe was, even though he appeared to have dementia during the debate. Folks on lemmy were accusing me of being a Russian bot for criticizing Biden.
The Dems are a cult just as much as the maga folks…
I don’t know if I was one, but I’ll own it. I’m not even a fucking Dem, I was (am) just that fucking terrified of President Trump. I didn’t think there was enough time to select another candidate, and I would literally rather elect a vegetable than Trump.
The only possible candidate was Harris, and I didn’t think we would rally to her as well as we did. I was wrong. I was wrong about a lot this election.
After Biden dropped out, I was all in on Harris. She was literally the only other option. But also, she was a damn good candidate for probably a month. Until she refused to distance herself from Biden on Gaza. But idk what happened behind the scenes. Probably big money pulled her aside and told her she’ll back his policies or lose $100m.
I don’t know. It didn’t matter. Maybe Kamala lost because she is a woman and some things America just isn’t ready for yet. Maybe she lost because she fucked up. Maybe it was the economy and no one but Trump was ever even in the running (honestly what I believe).
It certainly wasn’t Gaza alone. Demographics prove that. Didn’t even cost her Michigan by itself. But it was a blowout across the map.
I doubt Biden would’ve won either, so it didn’t matter. At the end of the day, him dropping out didn’t help us (maybe down ticket? Idk…)
I don’t think I accused anyone specifically of being a foreign agitator, except one person who very clearly was not American and trying to pass themselves off as American and was trashing Biden and immediately pivoted to trashing Harris (“the ONE person worse than Biden!” Right…).
But if I did in my desperate attempt to support whoever was running against Trump, then I apologize. Those were contentious times. Fighting times. Now we all just have to survive the next four years and help one another the best we can.
Criticizing Biden is fine, and should be encouraged. Criticizing the only other option to the shitshow you have now during the active portion of an election cycle is poor strategy, and the current administration is the result of that strategy.
I don’t think Gillis is pro-Trump from clips I’ve seen over the last ~6 months? Maybe I’m wrong, but I get the impression he’s just deeply apathetic. Theo Von I honestly dunno–and I’m not entirely sure he knows because I think he’s just kind of dumb guy (but relatively aware of it, in contrast to Rogan).
Podcasts are super popular right now. Theo Von, Joe Rogan, Kill Tony, Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker all have a huge audience. They are all pro Trump; Tony famously spoke at a Trump rally, and Rogan is constantly pushing a pro conservative message.
Social networks have all gone to the right, as their leadership stands to benefit. Most of our major newspapers and entertainment networks are also owned by billionaires.
They own the messaging right now, and people aren’t thinking critically because they are either distracted or don’t know how.
Part of it is that the left isn’t seen as fun. We’re too serious and judgmental all the time. Many times there’s good reasons for that but young people don’t want to constantly hear about taxation and proper pronoun usage. Talk about legalizing LSD or something once in a while.
And yes, I understand that the right isn’t fun in a way that most people would want to be but there is definitely something to be said for not gatekeeping language to an absurd degree. Let people express themselves without all the “well actually that’s ableist because…” interjections. People only listen to you a finite amount. If you burn through your educational goodwill on minor stuff no one is going to listen when you warn them about important stuff like fascists taking over the government.
Up until the week or two before Biden dropped out blue no matter who folks were talking about what a great candidate Joe was, even though he appeared to have dementia during the debate. Folks on lemmy were accusing me of being a Russian bot for criticizing Biden.
The Dems are a cult just as much as the maga folks…
Edit for grammar
I don’t know if I was one, but I’ll own it. I’m not even a fucking Dem, I was (am) just that fucking terrified of President Trump. I didn’t think there was enough time to select another candidate, and I would literally rather elect a vegetable than Trump.
The only possible candidate was Harris, and I didn’t think we would rally to her as well as we did. I was wrong. I was wrong about a lot this election.
After Biden dropped out, I was all in on Harris. She was literally the only other option. But also, she was a damn good candidate for probably a month. Until she refused to distance herself from Biden on Gaza. But idk what happened behind the scenes. Probably big money pulled her aside and told her she’ll back his policies or lose $100m.
I don’t know. It didn’t matter. Maybe Kamala lost because she is a woman and some things America just isn’t ready for yet. Maybe she lost because she fucked up. Maybe it was the economy and no one but Trump was ever even in the running (honestly what I believe).
It certainly wasn’t Gaza alone. Demographics prove that. Didn’t even cost her Michigan by itself. But it was a blowout across the map.
I doubt Biden would’ve won either, so it didn’t matter. At the end of the day, him dropping out didn’t help us (maybe down ticket? Idk…)
I don’t think I accused anyone specifically of being a foreign agitator, except one person who very clearly was not American and trying to pass themselves off as American and was trashing Biden and immediately pivoted to trashing Harris (“the ONE person worse than Biden!” Right…).
But if I did in my desperate attempt to support whoever was running against Trump, then I apologize. Those were contentious times. Fighting times. Now we all just have to survive the next four years and help one another the best we can.
Criticizing Biden is fine, and should be encouraged. Criticizing the only other option to the shitshow you have now during the active portion of an election cycle is poor strategy, and the current administration is the result of that strategy.
Nah. Criticize when it is deserved and also give credit where it is deserved.
Otherwise you’re just like the cable news networks pushing false narratives.
I don’t think Gillis is pro-Trump from clips I’ve seen over the last ~6 months? Maybe I’m wrong, but I get the impression he’s just deeply apathetic. Theo Von I honestly dunno–and I’m not entirely sure he knows because I think he’s just kind of dumb guy (but relatively aware of it, in contrast to Rogan).