Post-match: So what is next for the Democratic Party? (Post 2024)

I must have misunderstood the purpose of your first post.

I wasn't intending to debate the topic. If I were, id start with questioning whether the government had any influence in those companies regulating speech on their platforms. Id suggest FB is a good place to start in answering that question.

 

It's telling that the first ammendment has to be explained over and over to so many loudmouths.

 

I cynically believe they are intentionally throwing a low-stakes case here and there to give the guise of impartiality to the rubes.

But I fully own that’s a “heads I win, tails you lose” argument.

 

I say back to billboard and bus stop signs. I know it sounds crazy but if people can spend a whole day listening to p
Bro-casts and fox news and never hear from your side, how do you pierce their bubble? By getting to them on a micro level.

 

To avoid listening to politics podcasts, I've been consuming a lot of TikTok-like videos while I steer myself into other subjects and find media I want to consume. Podcasts are good while I do menial work, because they don't require my undivided attention, like a good TV show or reading a book or a magazine would, but finding interesting ones is difficult, and what is more depressing, is that audience lists, are dominated by right-wing influencers.

Anyways, if the video sample I've seen during the last two months is indicative of the current state of humanity, Democrats really need to dumb down their message to reach people who don't have the intellect to understand basic math or science.

 

Blast from the past, we need stained glass and morality plays. The Church had a message (!) to get out, and a populace not generally literate nor sophisticated, but through iconography, symbology, dramatic peril, audience engagement, and clever language they created and maintained quite a brand.

Show, don't tell, as the RES does on brocial media

 

Aren't lots of people with religious convictions voting against the teachings of said religions?

 

Oh yes definitely true. I was talking though about the means of communication, rather than the content.

 

Social media is just the Jerry Springer show 20-30 years later, only worse because most people are hiding their identity. Equating it to a public space is a bit silly.

And to add to that, the First Amendment need not apply to bots and people pretending to be someone else. And social media is 90% that last time I checked by FB feed.

 

You got a bunch of hacked accounts? That's why I keep my friendlist full of people I knew before social media. I generally ask them something they should know beforehand.

 

It doesn't even matter at this stage. 80-90% of anyone's newsfeed is from non-friends. Reevaluating my friends list would be about as useful as tidying up my laundry room while having half-a-dozen hobos live in my house just doing their thing.

 

lol
Suit yourself. My SM works fine.

 

I think what Boca is saying is that you can follow somebody like Dr Raven the science Maven who's a black female scientist that I follow. But then there will be links on her feet to other people who talk about racism and Science and myths who I don't know and technically I don't know Dr Raven either. Then you will have commenters which will be some white person blaming black people for being racist which you don't know if this is a white person or this is a bot but they will probably get rage clicks and responses from people saying I can't believe you said that or I'm sick of you white people in this end so it's snowballs and your feet is now filled with angry comments or responses to this one person and how many of these comments are responses are real people. The only person we know to some would be real is Dr Raven cuz she's the person who made the post but everything else is anonymous people saying yes she's right or no she's wrong and racist.

 

That's the world we live in. I see no reason to run from it. I can't run anyway. My skin is the original yellow star.

Boca is White and therefore safer from these people because they know not to pursue him (Jeffrey Dahmer had few White victims, as an example) or safe because they're related to him and he knows not to eat at their home even tho they won't kill him .

There are conservatives everywhere, waiting to pounce. That guy standing in the shadows behind a school with his dick out and a bag of candy to entice children is very likely one. That's what's left for those who don't get on FOX or make it in politics.

 

I for one like to have a feed from multiple sources. I usually need to work on a minimum of three platforms.

 

Not running from it is one thing, but why actively pursue it? What's gained? At best, social media is a waste of time/life. I feel for kids these days because they get sucked into it. But nothing sadder than seeing a middle-aged adult with a tic tok account.