You can tell everyone who has their eye on the White House in 2028, based on who is getting on board with this.
Abbott in Texas, Shapiro in Pennsylvania, DeSantis in Florida, Beshear in Kentucky, Hochul in NY. I'm amazed AOC hasn't brought a data center bill up through her House committee, yet.
We had SEO before Google. We'll have SEO after Google.
Yesterday it was a website with 47 different kinds of pop-up ads that contained every conceivable recipe in the meta-data of the header. Today it's a 12,000 word Martha Stewart rant about the time mom cooked a croquet madame before a two sentence recipe instruction. Tomorrow... who knows?
Maybe we'll only get recipes read to us during the performance of an elaborate TikTok dance. Maybe we'll need a thumbprint, a live camera photo, and three forms of state-issued ID to prove our identity before we can access FaceBook Presents: The One Cookbook Still Legally Allowed To Be Hosted On The Internet. Maybe everything will need to be translated from Chinese.
The only thing worse than a Google-tier AI response is the twelve different pop-ups and banner ads that get plastered across your screen on the native page.
Really is just a rock and a hard place when it comes to getting useful information. Nevermind how fucking sketchy SEO has made these responses anyway.
Republicans have proved, time and time again, that you can salvage a shit election year by blasting "AAAAAH! TRANSGENDER ATHLETES!" 24/7 for three months straight. And if your opponents decide to run a bunch of geriatric cancer-ridden chucklefucks against you, there's a better than average chance you'll win.
That's before entrenched partisans in the municipal/state bureaucracies straight up do election fraud to tip the scales. One favorite down in the Lone Star State is to send over voting machines that don't work to big liberal polling venues. I don't think I've seen an election in which the HBU voting venue didn't have a line 4+ hours long, because they only had two machines running for tens of thousands of (predominantly black) people. Maybe we even get a few arrests, like Ken Paxton did to Hervis Rogers, the last man to cast a ballot on the longest election night in Texas history.
If you ever wonder why mail-in voting was viciously crushed by reactionaries in US government, it stems from the ease at which a handful of insiders can fuck with electronic machines relative to paper mail-in ballots.
They've also been sold a bill of goods about how the economy is supposed to work. And they'll continue to accept the Republican ideological orthodoxy, for the same reason a Christian will keep prayer or an Oaklan A's fan will keep cheering straight into the grave.
When the economy is good, it's because Republicans did the right thing. When the economy is bad, it's because of external forces hostile to the US or an insidious Fifth Column of undercover leftists sabotaging things. Bad economic news isn't going to change your adherence to dogmatic beliefs, particularly when you're dealing with a macro-economic problem that has a thousand different inputs to blame at any given moment.
As a fundamental case in point, plenty of the liberal economic strain will tell you that our economic downturn is the result of severe heat caused by climate change. But conservatives who don't believe in climate change won't accept that diagnosis. So they're definitely not going to accept liberal economic reforms - particularly those intended to mitigate the causes and consequences of climate change - as a solution.
Party ID continues to slide universally. The 77/23 GOP split on this issue is from an increasingly marginal group of die-hard partisans. I'm willing to bet that the folks who feel burned are the most likely to drop into the Independent voter bucket over time. But then this person isn't in the "GOP voter who feels X", so you stop seeing them in the "GOP voter who doesn't like these policies" metrics anymore.
Practically a running joke that partisan views shape economic perceptions.
As soon as the GOP eats shit in the mid-terms, you're going to see a massive chunk of those 77% of Republicans wake up and realize the economy is bad. Meanwhile, a healthy chunk of the Dems will decide actually things are looking good again.
But the longterm trend has consistently been negative. If either the Dems or GOPers can figure out how to implement some decent economic reforms, there's a massive popular windfall waiting for them on the other side.
Yes but you’re not considering this within the context
We're seeing a nascent movement with a Tea Party sized constituency that is struggling against a massive undercurrent of hostile corporate media and institutional support.
We've seen it before - during OWS and BLM and the Bush Era anti-war movement and the 80s environmental movement and the 60s civil rights movement.
Contexts change. That's how we got here to begin with.
the DNC now supports abolishing ICE
A plurality of members currently say they support abolishing ICE while they have no control over national policy.
What do local governors and mayors think? My own Houston-Area Dem Mayor has been working hand-in-glove with Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton to conduct mass arrests and fill up prisons full of migrant people. That's in between the odd ICE shooting.
Our liberal City Council greenlit Flock Cameras. Our local House Reps have been championing genocide at home and abroad with their legislative votes and organizing actions.
How many Lemmyites will actually do this? Idk. Not holding my breath.