I personally wasn’t told that in high school. Also in high school I was told that consuming weed was a moral failing and that blood is blue when it’s inside the body so

there are lots of websites out there … You can literally do that on a break

Correct. Now your task, should you choose to accept it, is to show someone how to do that. Teach them to do their research. Easy? Now come up with a way to communicate the same message to maybe 150 million people. And make sure they don’t ignore it.

This is why strategies like advertising, canvassing, and media interviews are effective. Unlike expecting voters to “just do the research,” these methods meet people where they already are—at home, watching TV, listening to the radio, scrolling through social media, or catching up on the news. They reach voters directly, without assuming any prior knowledge or effort on their part.

really good insight and it sounds like a good opportunity for the DNC to find those channels rather than give up and court suburban conservatives.

you make a lot of really persuasive points. if only the campaign had communicated them.

i think the chronically online politics sphere overestimates how much the average voter knows by about 100-fold and that’s why we get comments like this.

when mcdonalds releases a new burger and no one buys it, we blame the product and the marketing. but when the DNC drops a new candidate, there is no room to talk about the candidate or the marketing for some reason—it’s all finger pointing and blaming one another for not “just getting” information that’s all but kept hidden from a population with >20% rates of low literacy.

The time to resist was at the ballot box.

the quiet part out loud. :( pay attention to why you said this. politics and loving your neighbor does not end on election night.

honestly good on us for learning and quitting the cycle of clicking the outrage headlines and instead working together to minimize damage as a community

the resistance, if it exists, is you, not some profit seeking ad-running corporate entity. i hope things keep being this way.

“we armed the bully with brass knuckles and body armor and all the implicit endorsement that kind of thing brings but he usually just chokes out his victims with his bare hands so AKSHUALLY we are blameless here” 🤓☝️

you are absolutely correct for this. really infuriating to see the bad faith argumentation coming out.

what needs to happen is constructive and significant criticism of the party, but it seems the moment you dare do that without using your vote as some kind of tone tag all bets are off and you’re MAGA.

yeah no, it’s not fucking okay to shove assumptions down someone’s throat. you don’t get away with “sawwy,” do fucking better and be fucking kind.

thanks, and not trying to be combative here :) i just know how discourse molds and progresses and it’s just a few short steps from the comments and name calling i’m seeing here to “pro-Palestine caused trump”

when in reality biden/harris actively ignored the petitioning of multiple vital demographics including latino, young, and low-income voters—all of which played out very poorly. it speaks volumes that i haven’t seen a single post about these demographics yet and multiple about Arab-Americans.

just be careful yall! your neighbors need you

reminder:

this election was lost on multiple fronts.

do not let articles like this, however truthful, and the inevitable spiteful comments underneath convince you that the next four years were caused by Arab-Americans.

it’s the [email protected] mod team that’s just really abrasive and destructive. i usually post failures of moderation to [email protected] because it’s the least front loaded with conceptions of self interest, but that still comes up almost every time with the accusations of butthurt. and overall still it’s almost impossible to call out stuff that is outside the scope of the interests of the english speaking, white, christian or atheist male.

it’s really just sad, cuz here you have a massive example of a leftist and progressive space but with no will to engage with the existing global community. it’s like, “women exist, muslim individuals exist, POC exist but actually no we prefer to talk about OUR experiences byeeeeee.”

yes! truly beautiful how statistics work

so all of this begs the question: do we think there is a person out there who is genderqueer, ambidextrous, AND owns a shiny pokemon?

gender was made up by big toilet to sell more restrooms

you can find and DM community mods in the community sidebar. i’m blocking you now i hope you can have more basic internet etiquette for your next interaction.

took this opportunity to look up frequency of ambidexterity—it’s about 1% which means, depending on definitions, ambidextrous individuals are born at about the same rate as trans people and half as frequently as intersex people. and all of these incidence rates excede the rate of shiny pokemon in gen ii!

proof!

(i also am spreading misinformation for the sake of satire)

dude if you have so many problems with mods go find another fucking community instead of spamming my notifications with expletives and attacks. embarrassing.

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