When I look at the last five years of abortion rights, I think it is Democrats who must show nuance and compromise. I analyze American politics for a living.
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5 years ago, there was this thing called "Bean Dad". It was a heartwarming story of a dad teaching his young daughter a new skill through perseverance and experimentation. Posted in a Twitter thread.
He ended up losing multiple jobs, paid gigs, and had CPS called on him.
Curious if any scholarly work has been done on this phenomenon. My assumption is when things are real shit, finding small things to get angry about and actually get some change feels good. Taking back some control.
Just know, one of my favorite journalists/bloggers has "liked" a couple of my responses to her posts. It absolutely creates an endorphin hit, and if I were still mentally developing, I would seek that out even more.
That's how the rightwing influencers get their hooks into people.
It's just interesting to self-reflect on that, and have that instinctive thought "I'm going to quote post her even more, with even more insight!"
People with bad intent so easily utilize that on those less reflective. I have no answers how to fix it though.
"whether you can prove fraud or not, it does undermine voter integrity"
Not having fraud... Undermines voter integrity?
Apparently he was called out for objectifying women (fellow musicians) at an event, and subsequently banned. So maybe not exactly equivalent.
As Los Angeles has shown, it takes DAYS to count votes. Yet Platner has 90k before it's even midnight. Sounds fishy.
These people must all be massive fans of (checks notes) ... Gridiron Heroics?
It's been obvious for decades at this point, but most people are not intellectually equipped to deal with the Internet, and especially public social media.
There are thousands of blog/news sites, and they rely on SEO for their niche. The NYT doing this is different from an NFL targeted blog.
