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Cake day: November 27th, 2024

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  • Its that social inertia, and I get it.

    I ran a neighborhood group’s social media, and even after FB turned openly shitty, I had to stay on there, because thats where people are.

    I mean, I could have pushed the org to drop them, but then we would have lost the eyeballs of thousands of neighbor’s we’re trying to work FOR.

    Same deal with Twitter, they’ve just gotten to the point where most NPOs lose less by leaving than they would by staying.







  • Because most people weren’t arguing about Gaza and it wouldn’t have changed the outcome.

    Well, I know it wasn’t the sole cause for her loss.

    With the benefit of hindsight, the only way she could have won would have been to address the high cost of living.

    No hindsight needed! EVERYONE was telling her campaign this, and they ignored it, in favor of “data driven strategy”, where they A/B tested the hell out of everything for a theoretical “typical voter”.

    “The economy” was the highest ranked issue and people voted for the guy who lied about eggs.

    Yes, because Harris wasn’t believing anything to be an issue, while homelessness is spiking, costs of living are spiking, costs for housing are spiking… Harris demanded people believe her, over their own growling stomachs.

    So, yes, her loss was multipartite, and had little to do with voters who couldn’t be arsed to vote for someone who has no connection to reality, and loves engaging in genocide.




  • The core tenet of tribalism is “They aren’t like us.” That might be based on skin color, hair type, clothing, smell (from different diets), behavior.

    That’s just not accurate. Its historically been cultural, not phenotypes.

    Prisoners of war, which were different skin colors, tended to be accepted into the group once they adapted the captor’s customs.