We can start fixing this today. Right now. No one one our team , none of us should consume mainstream media. No network news, no CNN and MSNBC. No Washington Post. Certainly no New York Times. (Unless you intend to use it to clean up after your pets and mail it back to the newspaper) No Sinclair. None of it. They're not on our side. Give Rebecca that business. BalloonJuice. Edroso. Al Jazeera. The Guardian. Der Spiegel. The mainstream media is getting paid by advertisers to deliver our attention. We quit paying attention advertisers will notice. Then we figure out how to get paid directly for delivering our attention. ( That's important. Remember Air America? They failed because all they could think to come up with was the same shitty, shady supplements/boner pills/survival food and gold certificate bullshit that Limbaugh and the righties use. Anyone smart enough to want and understand the content of the shows didn't want anything to do with the advertising and quit watching. Stupid own goal.)
We have an opportunity to build our own media, based on truth using genuine value. Let's do it.
I want to fight. The war that started over 30 years ago, got fierce and bloody in 2016. We got some hope and progress in 2020, but the fire now is exceeded only by the real fires in L.A. (pause for prayer).
I want to win. If I understand correctly, we want to use truth to humiliate officials? What does it take? Their followers seem to have no shame.
Maybe I should walk boldly into MAGAT social media and flame truthfully about how various right-wingers are worthy of MAGA-type insults?
The officials have no shame, and the followers have no brain. But we don't just want to preach to, and agree with, each other. Remember that Biden beat Trump in 2020. The people we want to influence are the Dems who stayed home this year, and some fringe types on the center-right. But we also want to influence, and goose, the Dems in power, many of whom are old, tired, sclerotic, timid, and not up to the moment.
I'd say don't bother breaching MAGAt social media and making a target of yourself. You can't dissuade a cultist. They literally don't care what the truth is.
Ellis!
Nice column.
We can start fixing this today. Right now. No one one our team , none of us should consume mainstream media. No network news, no CNN and MSNBC. No Washington Post. Certainly no New York Times. (Unless you intend to use it to clean up after your pets and mail it back to the newspaper) No Sinclair. None of it. They're not on our side. Give Rebecca that business. BalloonJuice. Edroso. Al Jazeera. The Guardian. Der Spiegel. The mainstream media is getting paid by advertisers to deliver our attention. We quit paying attention advertisers will notice. Then we figure out how to get paid directly for delivering our attention. ( That's important. Remember Air America? They failed because all they could think to come up with was the same shitty, shady supplements/boner pills/survival food and gold certificate bullshit that Limbaugh and the righties use. Anyone smart enough to want and understand the content of the shows didn't want anything to do with the advertising and quit watching. Stupid own goal.)
We have an opportunity to build our own media, based on truth using genuine value. Let's do it.
I want to fight. The war that started over 30 years ago, got fierce and bloody in 2016. We got some hope and progress in 2020, but the fire now is exceeded only by the real fires in L.A. (pause for prayer).
I want to win. If I understand correctly, we want to use truth to humiliate officials? What does it take? Their followers seem to have no shame.
Maybe I should walk boldly into MAGAT social media and flame truthfully about how various right-wingers are worthy of MAGA-type insults?
The officials have no shame, and the followers have no brain. But we don't just want to preach to, and agree with, each other. Remember that Biden beat Trump in 2020. The people we want to influence are the Dems who stayed home this year, and some fringe types on the center-right. But we also want to influence, and goose, the Dems in power, many of whom are old, tired, sclerotic, timid, and not up to the moment.
I'd say don't bother breaching MAGAt social media and making a target of yourself. You can't dissuade a cultist. They literally don't care what the truth is.
🤬🤬🤬 When they go low, we CURB THEIR FUCKING TEETH! Or rather, that’s what Bizarro World Democrats do. 🤬🤬🤬