I love Lemmy because I can never predict what the prevailing sentiment in the comment section will be lol. One thread over there’ll be a brigade of .ml users decreeing Piker as the savior and affirming this meme 100%.
Where the electorate is at dictates everything.
If you can’t persuade the electorate to move, then you must reach them where they’re at.
And if they’re conservative, then you have to slice off enough conservatism to get their vote but still be a liter version of the worse alternative.
The leftists (the most effective ones being SocDems and DemSocs) tend to be the persuaders, possibly helping to move the Overton Window left; the center-right liberals tend to be the compromise when persuasion check fails — an uphill battle these days given the megaphones of billions of dollars of misinformation from foreign and domestic sources.
Noticed this on reddit oh so many years ago. The first couple of posts drive the discussion. I even fucked around experimenting with that. If I got the first word in, that predicted the path of opinion. It’s truly scary how easily we’re manipulated.
I make a lot of contrary comments. Not to be disagreeable just because, and not to cause problems, I just say what I mean regardless of prevailing opinions. It’s bizarre to make the same exact statement in two threads and get excoriated on one and lauded on the other.
I love Lemmy because I can never predict what the prevailing sentiment in the comment section will be lol. One thread over there’ll be a brigade of .ml users decreeing Piker as the savior and affirming this meme 100%.
Where the electorate is at dictates everything.
If you can’t persuade the electorate to move, then you must reach them where they’re at.
And if they’re conservative, then you have to slice off enough conservatism to get their vote but still be a liter version of the worse alternative.
The leftists (the most effective ones being SocDems and DemSocs) tend to be the persuaders, possibly helping to move the Overton Window left; the center-right liberals tend to be the compromise when persuasion check fails — an uphill battle these days given the megaphones of billions of dollars of misinformation from foreign and domestic sources.
Noticed this on reddit oh so many years ago. The first couple of posts drive the discussion. I even fucked around experimenting with that. If I got the first word in, that predicted the path of opinion. It’s truly scary how easily we’re manipulated.
I make a lot of contrary comments. Not to be disagreeable just because, and not to cause problems, I just say what I mean regardless of prevailing opinions. It’s bizarre to make the same exact statement in two threads and get excoriated on one and lauded on the other.
Oh for sure. And in these days of sophisticated bot-farms and keyword-triggered brigades, it’s made all the more volatile.