Is Activist Vocabulary Hurting the Democrats?
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Third Way's latest memo has weak advice and a hidden agenda

A ton of different facets here. Among them:

  1. A little window into the consultant-driven “how can we best manipulate the voters’ perceptions, what ‘messaging’ will be most effective” way that DC looks at trying to win elections
  2. A little window into the wildly malicious kinds of corruption that can infect that little ecosystem
  3. The whole strategy of “we’re going to tell you what the ‘enemies’ believe, and then why it is wrong” even when absolutely none or almost none of the ‘enemies’ are actually saying that, is of course as common in mainstream politics as it is on Lemmy. And of course, it works quite well in both places.
  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Lol thank you very much. I have for-real started to suspect that people are making a goal out of having pointlessly disagreeable conversations on Lemmy about trivial topics for some unknown reason.

    Almost certainly it is not that, just me being paranoid and Lemmy is being kind of stupid as the internet is known to be sometimes, but it’s really hard to look at this conversation or this one and not conclude that someone is just being a pain in the ass on purpose.

    (Actually, I think the inclusion of “democrat” as an adjective is kind of indicative of one very particular purpose for having this one particular conversation with me which doesn’t seem to have any factual basis for the person to think the things they are saying that they think, but it goes beyond that. Usually it seems just random. There are just lots of people on Lemmy who will say something without thinking and then try to defend it to death so they won’t have to “lose” the conversation, I think is the most likely actual explanation.)