Hazel

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  • HazeltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldDems gonna Dem
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    6 hours ago

    If that’s meant to be the DNC, okay.

    If that’s meant to be people who made an argument for coalition politics and not straight up forfeiting an election to the worst presidential candidate anyone could find lying around to stuff into a diaper and a suit and put behind a podium… that’s not really the same thing.

    Gavin Newsom is not, at the moment, running for president. He’s not sitting opposite some extreme right-winger serving as a disappointing but necessary defensive line between us and things getting much worse. He’s an asshole who happens to be a Democrat and is the current governor of a state where he’s actively making things worse. He, like Harris, would clearly be leaning toward the right to try to win center votes.

    The reasonable strategic move to make for anyone who wants the government in the US to shift to the left is to make it clear that while his humiliating Trump is useful, he is not a viable candidate. Supporting him now would be backing a lame horse that’s literally still in the stable during a time where we should be finding the healthiest, fastest horse we possibly can. That is not the same as if he were in an election right now and were the only way to prevent a Trump from getting into office.

    I’m trans. I hope Newsom falls off a cliff. But if he had been running against Trump instead of Harris I would have held my nose and checked the box, because strategy isn’t about throwing a fit until you get the scenario you want, it’s about doing what you can with the hand you’ve got.

    Right now what we can do is toss his ass away and draw another card from the deck before we end up being forced to play him.


  • Hazeltotumblr@lemmy.world'Unalive'
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    1 month ago

    I mean, I pay for Nebula but honestly I don’t even use it most of the time. The content is pretty limited, even if I do like a lot of it. I still end up on Youtube instead, just because that’s where everyone posts.

    There probably is some sort of middle-ground to be found. Maybe a niche website that takes certain kind of content and an audience specifically geared toward it, or one that’s more community-oriented and takes steps to weed out the huge amount of AI content that’s on Youtube at this point. I haven’t really seen that actually work, yet, though. Maybe something like a Nebula or a Dropout but with better access for the average user who wants to post their own content would be a decent solution.

    I haven’t really seen Peertube do that, though.


  • Hazeltotumblr@lemmy.world'Unalive'
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    1 month ago

    To be fair, when it comes to youtube the engagement on alternatives doesn’t exactly seem very robust. Somebody linked a peertube the other day saying it was a great one with a lot of content, and the vast majority of videos I saw on the front page had 0 views, with a handful having views in the single digits. That’s not really a viable alternative for a site with hundreds of millions of potential viewers.











  • HazeltoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon likes trains
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    2 months ago

    Trains not planes is a much more reasonable and practical way to get people behind building more railways than planes not cars. We can talk planes not cars once some of the initial infrastructure is in place, but I think focusing on replacing something people hate (flying) rather than replacing something they like (driving) is probably a good place to start.