The hand-wringing makes a bit more sense when you start to consider that no small number of today's young self-proclaimed "progressive lefitsts" may in fact be disaffected populists...those Bernie-to-Trump voters could well be among the present protesters. There are now a frightful amount of people whose politics are pure pique and controversialism.
If Biden loses it will be in no small part because his unwavering support for extreme genderism alienates conservative-Democrat minority voters. The African-American community in particular polls very contrarily to the Democratic order of the day on this particular issue - and yet I keep reading article after article that asserts Biden's numbers are falling because he *isn't progressive enough.* Genderism is the single issue where the Democrats are most out of step with the public - it should be the first thing under the microscope if one is trying to diagnose any polling shortfalls, especially among minority groups. Yet, apparently, no Democratic politico or politician can even so much as suggest there might be difficulties here - they are evidently still in paralytic fear of, well, you know what.
Anecdotally, I have seen this discontent among Muslim family members and friends who have otherwise been consistent D voters for years. Some of them post gruesome images of the war (well, of the Palestinian victims anyway) on social media. As for Hamas, well, obviously those atrocities are AI generated, or made up by the “Western media”. From their very warped, biased perspective, this war is for nothing. The fact that the alternative would be worse doesn’t seem to bother them, maybe in part because they agree on social issues. So I’d be surprised if it didn’t result in my swing state swinging the other way.
Looking at those TikTok trends you linked to, i wonder... is Tiktok the new Twitter? By that I mean.... is it THE place where far left wokies are hanging out now that Twitter has been taken over by Elon?
TikTok seems to have overtaken every social media platform over the past two years. Every dumb idea, trend, slogan, term, meme, etc., that you see online seems to have originated there. As per Statista, TikTok has twice the active users as Twitter (though probably half the average age). https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/
There's also a question of hours-per-user - I don't have data there, but watching people zone out into tiktok's auto-feed is a disturbing sight. At least one has to move a finger to scroll twitter.
Well written. Thank you Jamie.
The hand-wringing makes a bit more sense when you start to consider that no small number of today's young self-proclaimed "progressive lefitsts" may in fact be disaffected populists...those Bernie-to-Trump voters could well be among the present protesters. There are now a frightful amount of people whose politics are pure pique and controversialism.
If Biden loses it will be in no small part because his unwavering support for extreme genderism alienates conservative-Democrat minority voters. The African-American community in particular polls very contrarily to the Democratic order of the day on this particular issue - and yet I keep reading article after article that asserts Biden's numbers are falling because he *isn't progressive enough.* Genderism is the single issue where the Democrats are most out of step with the public - it should be the first thing under the microscope if one is trying to diagnose any polling shortfalls, especially among minority groups. Yet, apparently, no Democratic politico or politician can even so much as suggest there might be difficulties here - they are evidently still in paralytic fear of, well, you know what.
Anecdotally, I have seen this discontent among Muslim family members and friends who have otherwise been consistent D voters for years. Some of them post gruesome images of the war (well, of the Palestinian victims anyway) on social media. As for Hamas, well, obviously those atrocities are AI generated, or made up by the “Western media”. From their very warped, biased perspective, this war is for nothing. The fact that the alternative would be worse doesn’t seem to bother them, maybe in part because they agree on social issues. So I’d be surprised if it didn’t result in my swing state swinging the other way.
Semites are Arabs.
And idiots act like antisemitism isn’t specifically hatred of Jews.
Looking at those TikTok trends you linked to, i wonder... is Tiktok the new Twitter? By that I mean.... is it THE place where far left wokies are hanging out now that Twitter has been taken over by Elon?
TikTok seems to have overtaken every social media platform over the past two years. Every dumb idea, trend, slogan, term, meme, etc., that you see online seems to have originated there. As per Statista, TikTok has twice the active users as Twitter (though probably half the average age). https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/
There's also a question of hours-per-user - I don't have data there, but watching people zone out into tiktok's auto-feed is a disturbing sight. At least one has to move a finger to scroll twitter.