Yeah I see tons of actual people protesting, not the terminally online Leftists here.

Regular people are fighting, not the tankies ;)

'The Left' isn't going to do shit in their 'revolution' except talk about it online.

They don't show up to anything.

Yep exactly.

Could be. It could also be as simple as using an actual Russian phone, and having an app on the phone that flies the drone.

We don't know, and I don't want to know so they can keep doing it.

This. I personally think they hacked the election, and they also purged the voter rolls.

So?

Different people have different breaking points.

Are you really going to be a fucking hipster about people coming around to Gaza and talk down because they supported an oppressed people later than you did?

Fucks sake dude.

Fuuuucking this.

It's Grand Theft Auto; Special Forces.

I wish they didn't absolutely butcher the sequel. It feels fucking awful compared to Wildlands.

There better be a significant time jump, because holy shit taking 3 years between seasons is getting really fucking old on every damned show. At least Disney is committing to going back to 'one season a year' so that's something.

Honestly, I've had this conversation with a lot of people!

I think tough love is the answer. People respect an actual honest gut punch.

Tough love with motivation to be better. That's what I would do. People want to look for something, to hope for something. They want to be part of a 'thing' that gives them meaning and a reason to get out of bed in the morning. For a lot of people that is what MAGA is. It's a brilliant bit of propaganda from a political science perspective.

The thing that the people behind maga forget is that positive always beats negative for people. If the democrats came out with a 'elbows up' campaign to drive engagement, inform voters, and have an Obama 08 style organization behind it. Dems would sweep elections left right and center across the country.

The issue, is the democrats shunned technology after that 08 Obama win. Obama built up a massive online apparatus to win the election then the party tossed it aside. The republicans embraced the digital age and have moved their propaganda networks online, and the democrats did nothing to counter it.

There are some things that give the Rs and advantage such as gish gallop and stuff like that, but again, tough love 'everything that man said is bullshit, your honor' type discourse wins out. They just don't want to get their hands dirty, and they don't want to fund people that do for some reason.

In short, you don't need to convince people to follow a billion different decrees. You give them a simple branding (Hope from 08. Where do you think all the MAGA merch idea came from? Those Hope shirts), direction, and figureheads.

Branding is easy, for me I'd pick something like Together. Direction? Focus on things people agree on and build out policy from those tentpoles. 'Family? We all love family. Here's how we're helping YOUR family with X policies.' Figureheads. Dems have TONS of super qualified women that are killing it. We need some fucking white bread dudes like Walz as well to be pushing these things (there are a few they just need more media around them).

From a dev standpoint, if it were me I'd create an app to push these things, make it social for people, and then gamify engagement by making it a 'game' to be informed of what's happening in your area and in the country at large. Getting people informed is not hard and doesn't take a lot of time, it requires newer styles of outreach that haven't been done before. At least in my mind!

Thanks for the conversation on this btw, It's refreshing! <3

You realize people want figureheads to look up to and follow, right?

That's why trump is so fucking popular with morons. He talks to them, and tells them SOMETHING that they can get behind.

Soooo screaming loudly on the internet and doing nothing?

No you mistake my point I'm saying that 'the left' doesn't have as many figurehead people online in those spaces to call out the people like Tate and Miller.