There's a good kind of politics that should be called civics. The bad part of politics is just manipulating people in order to amass power (vs corporate PR to make money etc). They want to control us and here they are very concerned that this has now become much harder to do. I don't want Trump elected again and I hate that people will always sometimes vote based on bad information but I can't stand these people treating us like children. #uspol https://pca.st/episode/45c8a4b5-3a0e-4e07-a1c3-0ac79b08c4f6
Better ideas don't just win. People desperately hold on even when their own reasoning can't justify it. Look at religion. Look at corporate social media. But eventually, facts and better understandings become undeniable. Once grasped, they cannot be unthought. The "click" is never undone. But the waiting. You want to shake people. That sucks. #LiberalValues
#Algorithms are a ponzi scheme. They steal attention from the least popular (people you actually chose to follow) to direct you to the already popular (cause the data tells them everybody similar to you likes this more). Everything cools come from word of mouth, not mainstream corporations. They just suck the life out of it. It's why early Twitter was the best of social media. Definitely the most intellectually stimulating. #SocialWeb
Algos don't help anybody. They just steal attention from some people you follow, to show you more from other people you follow. Or people you don't follow at all. Cause they claim to know better than you, what you want to see. Or say that so they can instead show you other stuff they want you to see. If you think you need them, just follow more people instead. If you're seeing junk without them, follow less people. It's not hard and it preserves our power over the corporate overlords. #SocialWeb
The opposite of the #AttentionDemocracy of the fedi is "their algorithm". Somebody else deciding what you see. That's what the #AI will always be too. "Their agent" who for now seems to work for you, but we all know the inevitable path of #enshittification. #SocialWeb
What most sucks about hating #Trump (for great reasons) is that lots of his supporters are working class and disrespected by the elites, so mocking him can feel like punching down. And then saying they shouldn't support him comes off as telling them they're stupid. It's a no-win situation for leftists who put economics first, and most want to improve the situation of these same people, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. #uspol
With states being more solid red or blue, we need a better way to appoint state Supreme Court justices. Otherwise they will be locked partisan for decades.
Have the lowest level judges appointed by governors when necessary, but then have those judges decide among themselves who moves up when the opportunity arises.
How much is #Trump and the support for a strongman president the result of a 50 year effort to make democratic government corrupt and ineffectual? Of course that would lead to incompatible desires to #MAGA it up and have no government. The people who think they are seeing past the propaganda and discovering the conspiracies, don't know about or can't see or refuse to acknowledge the ones most visible and documented by the left forever. #TheWeeklyShow#JonStewart https://pca.st/episode/b3739520-ef72-4aad-84be-c3119bfc4608
#SpeakerMikeJohnson claims Trump won in 2020. So why isn't he investigating and having hearings? Why isn't #Trump and his supporters, especially the friends and family of #AshliBabbitt, demanding that he do so?
Same reason nobody tests the communion wafer and wine for transubstantiation. Cause it's a creed, not a factual belief. Your job is to be mostly docile, say the right words and hope the community holds together as long as possible.
Never forget that we're dangerous. The potential of the fedi to upend the power of the already wealthy and powerful to control what the public knows, thinks about and considers as solutions to its problems is revolutionary. To no longer have that mediated by corporations, advertisers and a few people that governments can pressure is a serious threat to them. Publishing via the open web was huge, but so much great stuff never got seen. They are fighting the #AttentionDemocracy of the #SocialWeb.
Still want to replace liberal.city with a server name and network of users that could be much bigger and stand for a fedi culture that wants everyone here, as long as they don't harass people. Unpopular opinions and facts not currently widely accepted welcome. Not otherwise branded with any specific ideology or community. Anybody else interested? #SocialWeb
There are so many accounts trying anything to get the algos to direct attention to them on the corporate silos. It seems inevitable that as this grows with AI and the search for profit, it will drive everyone to the fedi. Or they don't give us a chance and most people just abandon social media. #SocialWeb