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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:11:59 +0000
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On 2025-02-13 10:45, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
>
> On 13/02/2025 10:38, Java Jive wrote:
>>
>> On 2025-02-13 00:56, micky wrote:
>>>
>>> In 4 years or when the idiot dies, whichever comes first, we in the US
>>> can rid of all this nonsense.
>>
>> That's what the rest of the world hoped in 2020, but your voting 
>> population was stupid enough to vote him in twice, so, even if the US 
>> Constitution turns out to be strong enough to thwart his attempts to 
>> Putinise it and make himself POTUS for life  -  as US citizens are 
>> fond of maintaining but seen from the outside seems frighteningly 
>> uncertain -    what's to stop them voting in another narcissistic 
>> wrecking ball of an idiot?
> 
> Call me a cynical old git if you like, but I suspect that this problem 
> might go away just as soon as the Democrats realise that the American 
> electorate dont like women or blacks (or maybe I mean Blacks ?)

Substitute "social media influencers" for "American electorate" and I 
think you'd be nearer the truth.

Kamala Harris seemed a pretty good candidate to me, at any rate way 
better than Trump, though that's a very low standard to have to beat, 
and nearly all the polls had her leading by small margins right up to 
the vote, but Trump won *easily*.  Why?  A sizeable chunk of the 
electorate now don't watch main-stream media at all, and also tend not 
to be sampled by standard polling methods, and thus didn't contribute to 
the picture in the run up to the election, but of course their actual 
votes still count just the same as everyone else's.

They get all their so-called 'news' from social media influencers like 
Musk and Josh Rogan (if I recall his name correctly) who have never had 
any journalistic training, see no need to be impartial, etc  -  on the 
contrary, the more extreme the views voiced on their channels, the more 
controversy they whip up, the more the algorithms suggest their channels 
to punters, so the better their ratings.  Hence they regularly 
regurgitate Russian propaganda, while Musk openly biased the Twitter 
algorithm towards Trump, and Josh Rogan wouldn't agree to travel to 
interview Kamala Harris  -  he wanted her to come to him, which to 
someone of my generation seems like the tail trying to wag the dog, but 
we all know the result.

What I think that result proves  -  as did 2016 where Trump had senior 
people from the three main social media companies working out of his 
campaign HQ and won, and 2020 where social media largely ditched him and 
he lost  -  that you can't win a modern election with out winning the 
social media campaign.  However bigoted, unreasonable, and self-serving 
they are, you have to engage with these narcissists on their own ground 
and at very least appear reasonable and competent, hopefully also 
thereby showing them up starkly by contrast for their lack of such 
leadership qualities.

-- 

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