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LibTarg’s 5-Alarm Fire 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

There is plenty of blame to go around for another election cycle riddled with misinformation online. Big Tech is still unwilling to hold bad actors accountable, Congress is unwilling to step in and write new rules for the 21st century, and Republicans will continue to slander and lie to voters to make their case. Because of all of this, Democrats lose, and we need to acknowledge this reality and figure out new ways to communicate with voters on today’s internet.


washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris votersBy Michael Scherer

“People were upset on both sides of the aisle on it, said it was dishonest, disingenuous, we shouldn’t be running ads that look like Harris’s. But it worked and the numbers are undeniable,” Romeo said. “We had a ton of inquiries on these efforts from the media. We didn’t answer any of them. We just ran our strategy and we didn’t care what anyone said. I think that we learned from the Trump campaign in that respect.”

@Acronymesis I work in media. It’s alarming how badly we are losing this war of dissemination and messaging. How to compete against Elon and Rogan and their endless avalanche of bad information?

@jaskot I’m not sure exactly how, but we better figure it out or this country is lost.

@Acronymesis @jaskot Our Democracy is a complete failure when a majority can’t be bothered with leadership choices. We stagger along as the Capitalists seize wealth and power, until the system collapses.
This could be the perishable nature of democracy. Sure there are multiple reasons, but the bottom line is the outcome. Arguably the war could already be lost, we may need to see a breakdown and rebuild from scratch. As you can tell, I’m not feeling positive about our future. 😔

@Huntn00 @Acronymesis I am not feeling positive at all, but democracy did work. It wasn’t what I wanted, I fucking despise that malignant game show host clown and he’s already made things noticeably worse, but he won a plurality of the votes.

Rogan, Elon, Tucker and the cadre of other RuZ mouthpieces probably had the biggest influence over the outcome. I don’t think any other candidate could have overcome those forces of misinformation and weaponized BS.

@jaskot @Huntn00 I don’t think democracy worked only because our constitution directly states that those who’ve held office and then engage in insurrection cannot hold office again. The language is clear. Joe Biden - the current president per democracy already having worked - is sworn to protect the constitution; it was his/the DOJ’s duty not to allow Drumpf to run, and they allowed it anyway.

And we’re just watching it happen.

Seems to me democracy failed.

@Acronymesis @jaskot The nature of democracy, fragile and perishable, especially if it’s not valued (lack of participation) or it’s not desired and undermined.

@jaskot @Acronymesis For this stage of the journey, I am grateful for my life, the opportunity to experience consciousness in the manner I have.
That said, we may have just voted our democracy out of existence, such is its natures when 30% or whatever don’t bother to participate. As it slips away, it will require a fight to come back. I can’t say if that fight will be peaceful or violent.

@jaskot @Acronymesis It's a difficult problem.

Because you cannot use a sane message to talk to these people. You'll just get out argued with insanity and they won't actually listen to a word you said.

So you basically have to shout louder than them somehow which is hard because idiots always have the biggest loud speakers.

So you're back at square one with just a bunch of angry idiots shouting at one another and all the sane people face palming in the background...

@RationalizedInsanity @jaskot indeed, it will not be easy to figure out how to get through to folks who are already steeped and disinformation. However, it’s either we figure it out or we continue to lose.

@Acronymesis @jaskot You focus less on the people who are deep into disinformation. Arguing with those people is absolutely pointless and you won't get through to them.

You focus on those who don't know much about it or are on the fence about what they believe. So they don't end up super misinformed too.

@Acronymesis
So you're blaming big tech and Congress, neither were to blame.

Dems don't have the media reach, no Fox, no Joe Rogan, Newsmax on and on. They were able to out scream us. We had the perfect message that no one heard.

@GatekeepKen I do believe big tech and our government share some blame regarding the disinformation war being waged on us, but you’re definitely right that the Dems’ lack of something akin to the right wing media machine is part of the issue.

There’s also, you know, the people that voted the way they did.

Mostly what matters to me is that there clearly is a disinfo campaign on multiple fronts that not nearly enough is being done to battle. Something HAS to be done about it.

@Acronymesis
If we don't come up with bigger outreach, we're done. Poor Kamala had 3 months to get our message out, and one group , Latinos, never got it . So now ,they will be very very sorry.