speaking from experience

Please do.

But I feel there's no strategy to really push back. And it feels like a really one-sided fight.

i dont have data so it will be more a think piece

Hey holy shit I just got a silver eagle

yea i try to insert subtle things ocassionally

Is there a space here for us to post our youtube chanels to share with the comunity?

but it depends on the post and poster

Similar. But there's only so much that can be done that way.

yep

@Khanclansith Minds. I think.

https://www.vox.com/a/primary-election-results-august-2018/florida-primary-results

as of right now more gop voters than dem voters in florida gov

im hoping to get enough attention on the vid to get people talking about it

Repubs always turnout more for Primaries

on average

^

Repubs traditionally have been more reliable voters.

I think that might be changing if the Trump coalition is what everyone says it is.

But that's the tendency.

also might touch on Millennials not voting but often being either activists or clicktavists

I do think being republican means breaking out of the media narrative which means a stronger commitment to politics.

@Lagomaster24 I think that's either changing or ovreplayed.

they tend to be more involved politically

repubs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAXXneKe_no&feature=push-lbss&attr_tag=eGzdn0ZxNslje1mk%3A6 Jim will be starting soon

also i think it IS changing albeit slowly

Presumably to talk about being unpersoned from several sites at once...

probs

i dont even like Jim but fuuuuck

I think Dems are actually more involved. But Republicans are more informed.

/\

well i wonder how much the socialist argument is sticking to dems

Same. No idea who this guy is. But clearly he got someone upset.

probably not much for most

Hey fatties. Jimbo is having a stream

there is possibly some push back against the socialists in the Dems

but i dont know for sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAXXneKe_no

dude

SCROLL

UP
~~disregard i suck cocks~~
ACTUALLY NO, I"M THE FIRST SINCE HE STARTED BROADCASTING SO THERE

this has been posted three times

LOL

The saying is that midterms are local. I'm not sure how much effect it's having.

Well what am I? Chopped liver?

How the fuck did I not know this first

I worked the polls for my primary and there was 3x more republican turnout iirc

@RanStairs General reposti.

also primaries tend to get less younger voters

@pratel Wrong, I'm chopped liver

@Lagomaster24 Yeah, primaries are for the committed partisans.

yea

younger voters arent as partisan as they seem

Also the groups looking for economic rent like labor unions or business groups.

although that may be changing with the paradigm

or simply age

I think the biggest driver is actually social media.

yea like i maybe saw somewhere in the teens of young voters at the polls i worked

The companies are looking for very specific things and starting to basically act like mobilizers.

oh yea

campaign mobilization

Traditionally, it was the Young Republicans and Young Democrats showing up in primaries.

canvassing helps too

i did that

But now you get Reddit doing stuff like that Net Neutrality stunt a year ago.

Or all the bots pushing people to vote...

And I don't think these are strictly grassroots campaigns.

The NN push in particular.

I think it's like labor unions. They just send a bunch of mailers to people who don't otherwise pay attention and rile them up to get them to vote in particular ways.

Also probably going to be just as abusive as labor unions were at their peak. Protecting the guys at the top and ignoring the guys at the bottom

Which is the real reason organized labor collapsed.

It got too big and became corrupt.

8700 and climbing watching Jim

i can say from experience with a campaign that GOTV is a large scale effort

Yeah, but it's not really that effective.

It just tells people to vote.

And then to go do research.

i only participated in a small aspect of it

Reddit tells people "save the internet" "vote for/against X"!

And that takes much less effort.

yea

It's much more emotive too.

definitly

That I think could drive turnout.

we've been seeing it more on Facebook too

Ironically, they are pushing a strongly progressive line.

yea

Progressives are basically shilling for corporations at this point.

Which is just as surreal as conservatives pushing regulations.

*shits messed up*

so counterproductive to their own narrative

I think it makes sense if you look at it from the standpoint of power and rent-seeking.

oh def

That's one of the big thing pure free-marketers ignore. Companies will push regulations or economic redistribution if they think it will give them an advantage over their rivals or ultimately help the bottom line.

And rent seeking is very good at helping the bottom line.

yep

Plus, you give Reddit essentially unconstrained power via unconstrained mindshare.

You basically get an oligarchy from the top offices at Reddit.

It wouldn't be in principle that different from the cities that are electorally run by their unions.