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22 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
be assertive instead of defensive

"the mandates work. millions more are vaccinated because of them." > "see? mandates are not tyranny, theyre working, now please get vaccinated."
i think liberals are not great about using language and frankly if the public supports your position on so much there's no reason to approach so many topics like everyone is against you.
assert, assert, assert. conservatives go very far asserting their frankly fringe positions as mainstream. i am convinced that asserting popular positions is even more powerful. get out of the defensive crouch and stand up.
we could have spent 2010-12 with dems saying "obamacare got you a doctor so you won't die" and maybe things would have been way better off.

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22 Nov
ah good i havent cried enough as it is
the covid stuff the last season really took me out of the show. i know its supposed to reflect our reality but i would have preferred it just pretend that didnt happen. it is the one show where im like, "fine, emotionally manipulate me, its ok."
oh and folks should know that "this is us" confirms my thesis as to the centrality of cabins to white american life. the cabin on this show is the center of their whole life with their deceased father. the cabin is the rosetta stone. #whitepeoplehavecabins
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22 Nov
i love when brits or others do bad american accents. they flatten everything out, and it is true, they just do it too much. its not "bad" but benedict cumberbatch kind of does this when he plays dr strange.
jamaicans doing american accents makes me lol. they sincerely believe we say "guy" all the time and are always talking about hamburgers (which isnt completely untrue).
the same way americans insist jamaicans are constantly saying "mon" and while jamaicans prob say "man" more than americans they dont do it as often as we hear it.
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21 Nov
I see this attitude a lot and it’s a bad attitude. Not everybody votes for the reasons you do. They don’t see it your way. Lecturing them like this won’t shame them into magically voting. So put time and resources into efforts to get them to vote.
I happen to agree that a lot is on the line every time we vote. But a significant number of voters don’t feel this urgency and they won’t if all you do is yell at them about it. It never works, and all it does is make you feel smug.
Some people need voting to feel like a circus show. Maybe we think that’s stupid and they should “just know they need to vote.” If we make them entertained and that gets them to vote, aren’t we better of rather than lecturing them about why they should have known better?
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19 Nov
fox news poll released last night shows *increase* in people saying gov't should do more to alleviate problems and *decrease* in saying the govt is doing too much Image
fox's own poll shows the fox solution to high gas prices - deregulation and drilling - only has 34% support Image
despite hundreds of hours of propaganda on fox, fox's own poll shows plurality of people support vaccine mandates and trust the vaccine Image
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19 Nov
IMHO pointing to Democratic wins in 2008, 2018, and 2020 as examples of Democrats successfully fighting the gop noise machine have it wrong. Those wins all came after colossal GOP fuckups that made it easier for Dems to draw clear contrasts.
I think the only election I’d cast as a “pure” defeat of the noise machine lately would be 2012, where they threw everything at Obama for years and failed. But as I said in 2016 when I thought Clinton would win, the left has not set itself up to really fight yet.
I think liberals suffer from this triumphalist idea that after these wins they beat the final boss and everyone can stop pointing out that Freddy is very much alive. As @EnBuenora has noted to me, Dems get very mad when you don’t join in the team spirit celebration.
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18 Nov
how "neutral" reporting slips in its pov, continued. from this cbs report: biden said he would be normal, but he's not doing this press event. so he's abnormal, just like trump. is the weird message being communicated here.
in his first year in office, trump held *one* official press conference. for another 300+ day stretch his white house held no press briefing. but ya know, this is a huge problem for them.
youll also remember that at the beginning of his presidency, the mainstream press complained it had been "X" days since biden held an official presser, even though through that time he still spoke to the press. and now they complain because he doesnt play footsie like trump did
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