Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?
zenitsu@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago“distinguishing herself from him in literally any way”
should be easy for you to give an actual example then.
It was very easy to associate her with the real or imagined failures of the Biden campaign because she did nothing at all to distinguish herself from them.
No, it was easy because people are dumbasses and don’t know basic facts like “the VP doesn’t have much power”. Again, she can’t real distinguish herself much from her own administration if troglodytes aren’t even aware of what a VP can or can’t do. Trump literally just copy/pasted his critiques of Biden onto her and people ate that shit up lmao.
Almost as if complex economic explanations
basic facts like how the economy is performing and covid caused global inflation is “complex economic explanations” now?
Objection@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
An example of her… not doing that? I already did, when she was asked in an interview what she would do differently.
Again, what’s you’re plan to account for people being dumbasses? If people are dumbasses, and you want politicians to keep running campaigns as if they weren’t, then the inevitable result of what you want is that you lose.
Yes. How “the economy” is performing doesn’t necessarily reflect on the average person’s lived experiences as they watch prices go up and don’t own enough stocks to really benefit from that. I don’t recall Kamala ever actually bringing up covid as the reason for global inflation, which was probably smart doing so probably would’ve just increased covid skepticism, it would’ve played right into their hands. It’s no surprise that the right was able to cut through that rhetoric by talking about the price of eggs and such.
I really feel like you’re underestimating the challenge of communicating ideas to a broad population. Any message you want to communicate, you should imagine someone acting in complete bad faith trying to present you in the worst possible light and shouting over everything you say, because that’s what cable news is, and it’s also what political content on platforms like Twitch and YouTube are like, except then they don’t even have to bring you on at all, they can go through clips and shit cherry-picking and taking things out of context. I can shout “YOU DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY BECAUSE THE BILLIONAIRES TOOK IT” and that’s a lot more likely to get through than like, “You don’t have any money, but you could have even less money, and actually if you compare our inflation levels to the global median you’ll see that it was actually unavoidable,” which can easily be distorted and shouted down.
zenitsu@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
An example of how she could’ve distinguished herself successfully…
I’m not trying to present a plan. I’m trying to explain the sources of disinformation and how people were manipulated by them. The media environment needs to be fixed, but people have already been successfully manipulated into distrusting traditional media and trusting Russia bot farm accounts o Twitter instead. How to fix this environment now? God knows
I feel like I’m highlighting that, of anything.
Objection@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I already did. She could’ve said that the administration wanted to do more about inflation but was held back by Republicans in Congress. She could’ve also pointed a finger at the rich and say that she would do to confront them and stop price gouging.
Ok, well some of us actually do have ideas on how to win and haven’t resigned ourselves to this defeatist martyrdom nonsense. So, like, maybe we should toss out your ideas at least for a while and give mine a try, since they involve a practical, coherent strategy adapted to the present situation which you have no answer for.
zenitsu@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ah yes, because voters clearly cared when it was pointed out that republicans blocked the border bill just to avoid giving Biden that win, on the orders of Trump.
Yes, voters are also clearly concerned about the rich when they vote for billionaires. Truly a winning strategy.
Your “ideas” are shit, nobody cares. You’re clearly incapable of identifying what’s wrong in the first place so what chance do you have of coming up with any solutions lmao.
Who’s “we”? Quit larping like a schizo. Nobody’s implemeting any of your bs.