Yeah, I browse All on Lemmy which I never would do on Reddit, and engage with whatever posts I connect with. I wonder if there are others who do the same.
Posting to new or "inactive" communities I think is less of a shout into the abyss on Lemmy compared with Reddit.
There are many many layers, conservative media and social groups and psychological barriers, that act like an immune system, all in place to prevent information like this from actually being seen or acknowledged.
No information typically makes it past the first barrier, conservative media, which simultaneously floods the information channels with anti-left messaging. If it does, their social groups are there to discount it or kill it. If the information makes it past that, their brains are trained to resolve the cognitive dissonance to reject or disbelieve it.
And that is why we're really screwed. There're things like this all the time that should be killing Trump's candidacy. The system in place to prevent that is disturbingly effective.
This is really unprovable, but my theory is that this is also another result of late-stage capitalistic exhaustion. While young people still want to be ethical and moral and safe, there's a lot of moment-to-moment existential rebellion with so many layers of rules, norms and expectations.
It's similar to the rise of "treat" habits - if there's no realistic possibility of the American dream and house and white picket fence and kids for an average worker's salary, you have a moment of probably irresponsible spending that feels life affirming, to shake off the feeling of being in a Matrix pod that's sucking out your life force in the most efficient manner possible.
Hence, no condom! Or something.
I know, I chortled at that during the debate. I wanted Walz to jump in that moment and say exactly that.
Yup, they were treating her as the reincarnation of Che Guevara since year one. They've been rigging the game specifically against her since before she even got a seat at the table.
... All of which also means we stop focusing on jailing him for things that are illegal.
Yep, to put it succinctly, Vance won on superficial polish, and Walz won on substance, meaning both won on the most important part to each of their bases.
The funny thing is this will do absolutely nothing to prevent a sitewide protest. There are so many ways for mods to effectively destroy a subreddit or redirect it while remaining public.
In fact, and this is the important blindness that Reddit continues to have, the mods usually need to work hard daily just to keep a sub usable. Reddit is so dismissive of that effort and so brazenly presumes upon their volunteer labor that they seem to think subs just continue on sheer momentum, if only they could stop mods from sabotaging them.
Mod posts every day pointing to a new community at Lemmy or elsewhere, stopping using bot removal tools, stopping troll culling, marking NSFW, etc will do the job.
Couldn't have happened to a douchier bag.
It makes sense once you consider Paramount is in limbo until a merger with Skydance, run by David Ellison, the son of right-wing billionaire Larry Ellison.
David Ellison may be more liberal and has apparently donated to democratic candidates more often than republicans. But you can imagine the direction coming down from high-up CBS positions to not engage in anything that may look partisan.
it's just a shame that the right has convinced anyone that "verifiable reality" is partisan.
The scary possibility to me, though, is that conservative voting has decoupled from policy. It is no longer correlated to conservative support on issues.
If indeed these young people become Trump voters, it's extremely likely they will be doing so despite it contradicting their own policy issues and self-interest (like a huge percentage of non-young blue-collar Trump voters).
"Non-Trump" republicans are a myth that I'm getting tired of. If you are running as a republican, you support Trump, and if you support Trump, you support fascism. They've made the math on this pretty simple.