The goal is not to win, but to simply make it clear that counter-arguments and opposition do exist so people are not as quick to take those posts as established fact and make up their minds based on poor information.
fluxion
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It's easy to feel like X is just a fascist wasteland, but guys Medhi Hasan still frequently reach millions of people. Even if we're yelling into the firehose of BS the reach is still orders of magnitude higher than platforms like this. I still prefer here much greater, but we aren't the ones that need to hear this stuff.
Interesting they all of a sudden have absolutely zero concerns that our "deep state" will roll in any second now to undo the election
Unfortunately, places like Instagram, X, and Facebook are where all the late-deciders get their political messages from. My wife completely non-political because she didn't grow up in a democracy and she is constantly surprised and in disbelief when i mention what Trump is up to. She's used to periodic meme's about Biden causing inflation and her general takeaway is "Trump is good for economy" even though she knows he is a horrible person who cannot be taken for his word on anything... almost purely thanks to me. Sometimes she thinks I'm the one that has gone extreme and am just talking crazy until I bring the receipts.
At work, she speaks to a lot of customers who are mostly the same. If they get mobilized to vote...they are doing so off similar information avenues.
So i think we should be careful about building ALL our information around sources that are essentially preaching to the choir, and make sure to still actively post to other media even if its not the main/trusted source so it's not just a firehose of unchecked Republican talking points.
Why look elsewhere when we have perfectly healthy children that could fill in some of the gaps?
Imagine deporting all immigrants and then waging war to bring their countries under your control. It's just insane enough that I could see MAGA doing it.
I don't mind the media pointing out them being blatantly-lying shitstains though.
"That includes you, moderate Republicans. Or should I say RINOs"
It's definitely at least that deep. Russia didn't go into overdrive trying to elect him because they think he's going to be tougher on them than Biden.
Best of luck to the rest of the world. Our failure doesn't need to be yours.
Yes, emphasis on "more"
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Do what? Reach more people than we would if we stick purely to our little safe spaces?
Yes. It's trivially provable:
10M views:
https://x.com/tayrilivia/status/1854207409717428564
16M views:
https://x.com/RoseSensu/status/1854215333243949203
94M views:
https://x.com/BarackObama/status/1854284022731669530
Etc. Etc.
Those 2 posts have probably gotten more views than everything you and I have ever posted online combined.
Again, it's not about being louder than Elon Musk and whatever bullshit shenanigans, it's just about not 100% conceding the information spaces like because they aren't fair. Nothing is going to be fair for the next 4 years, but that doesn't mean we give up.