What is that concept called about society having a collective short term memory?

This comment just reeks of vibes. She’s extremely accomplished and intelligent. She wasn’t the most hilarious or charming person, but again, that’s not what I look for in a leader.

I never understand comments like these. She was elected senator of California. She was an AG. Her list of accomplishments is available on Wikipedia for free. What does a black woman have to do to prove herself in this day?

I’ve only seen this phenomenon on Lemmy where it’s a hard stance all or nothing about every hot topic. Also, I think many here are privileged people. After all, it’s not the Lemmy user’s families being abducted at immigration hearings or whose kids are losing their only meal option because Republicans ended school lunches. So they yap all day about the genocide in Gaza, don’t bother to vote and the cycle repeats. Because in the end, they personally are not affected

This comment is so stupid I wouldn’t know where to start to unpack it. This is such a bad take on so many levels it makes Sovereign citizens sound like supreme court justices.

Ok thanks.

I did look at setting this up on my Synology and it seems I have to take a day off work to get it done. Is it worth it?

Oh Lawd! I’ve never heard about the Nuland telephone call! Not a banal conversation between two diplomats discussing who their preferences are for the election that’s ongoing in the country they reside in. There it is, folks! The big gotcha that CIA was involved.

That’s the standard of evidence we’re working with here, folks.

Hey nice buzzwords. Do you happen to have ANY evidence of Cia intervention? Just one thanks.

We have lots of evidence of popular unrest and demand for Yanukovich to be ousted by the people of Ukraine

It’s fun to pontificate on the sidelines about “manufactured consent” and how “neoliberalism leads to fascism” all day long. The reality is all forms of governance that involve some form of democratic participation require vigilance and engagement. If you think the socialist utopia you’re dreaming of is immune to the vicissitudes of man, then you have some life experience to acquire.

In the meantime people are being snatched off the streets because the candidate Dems proposed wasn’t left enough or something. Whatever.

So what. I’ll take neoliberal clowns any day over what is happening right now. Goddam Lemmy, how privileged are you guys

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Let me assure you I am not a conservative and also align with progressive or lefty ideals. Don’t mistake criticism of lefty twitch streamers as a convenient reason to box in reasonable discourse.

Saying Palestinians have a right to self defense is a fine statement. Farming faux outrage day after day by exploiting the suffering of victims of genocide to farm clicks: not so much.

Let me assure you, Hassan has no interest in seeing an end to any of the ongoing conflicts in the world. This is evidenced by the way he condones and encourages the visceral rhetoric aimed at any party that is seeking reconciliation of any sort.

Outrage == clicks

It’s not clip chimped. Sign on Twitch and watch for yourself. I’ve been following Hassan for years. This really is the summation of his content (and most of his peers, as well). Their livelihood depends on a outraged and captured audience (same as Alex Jones). This guy does a better break down if you want more meta: Padda

Always with the “missing context” when it comes to Hassan.

What I learned watching Hassan for one Week

How do you measure their sincerity? Is it the charity drives? Is it the way he insults trans people? Or the way he makes fun of victims of SA? I’m curious.

We get it. You don’t like liberal Dems.

Make your own party. Go. Do something.

do anything please

Not Hassan though! He’s totally genuine about his Gucci bag and Porsche haha

Hasan is purely outrage farming and nothing more. He builds no electoral power, has no goals to move to, and couldn’t care less to build coalitions. You know, the stuff you gotta do to get things done. He needs his viewer base to remain angry all the time because at this point he is completely audience captured and his subsistence depends on him just yapping to Twitter headlines all day.

Right. You could totally be right about OPs offline political engagement. My critique is more directed at the entirety of the online leftist media apparatus (the twitch streamers, the youtubers, the online pundits, etc). These people are so wrapped in their own personas and audience capture, that they are essentially worthless at building any political power or anything that resembles a movement.

We have twitch streamers with insanely huge audiences like Hassan, who claims to be a socialist, but whenever he’s offered a chance to expand the message or gain some kind of momentum he shoots it down. There seems to be no will or strategy to expand this effort beyond maybe growing youtube subscribers. That’s it. So when I see the same memes posted on lemmy, day after day, I have to wonder: what is the end goal?