US Election 2024

[Noo_Noo]

Actually thinking about it I’m expecting a massive double down blaming whatever they can hang their hats on, cat ladies or whatever.

[Limiescouse]

Yeah. People are very reluctant to admit mistakes of this magnitude. It’s too cognitively painful to process so the failures then become someone else’s fault.

Remain lied too
Remain should have done more to combat leave’s lies

[redalways]

@Limiescouse

Remember, the EC system creates some weird patterns. There is evidence in the national vote of Dems staying at home, but that appears to be concentrated in “safe states” where it didnt matter (it always matters). In the battleground states though Harris actually turned out her base, increasing the raw totals from Biden in NV, NC, WI, and GA. The issue is across the battleground states Biden voters switched over to vote for Trump.

So essentially the pressure worked, but it’s just in the battleground states he won the battle.

I’m not sure this is a very strong support though, unless there’s some way to figure out what the past votes/non-votes were. Otherwise it’s just reading into populations that might just be rather different.

[Limiescouse]

Say what you will about the way Dorsey and Parag ran twitter with respect to political content, but they never bragged that they used to achieve the electoral result they wanted

And this
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1857736106017439938

Over the last 12 months there were loads of instances demonstrating the finger was being actively put on the scale. We already knew about the changes to the algorithm that uniquely pushed Elon’s personal content, and the elimination of community notes from his disinformation, but there were loads of other examples. I personally repeatedly saw content in my regular feed from GOP accounts, including some from Trump himself, despite me not following those accounts or them not being retweeted by anyone I follow. Influencers on the left were repeatedly reporting experiencing culls of their followers with people raising their hand to say that certain influential accounts had been removed from their following.

[Magnus]

@Noo_Noo

As earlier it was a protest vote against the current political system.

Well they’ve got the change they asked for now even though I suspect the outcome of that will not be what they wanted

A tedious but obvious “roll your eyes example”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/muslims-who-voted-for-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks/
“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others,” says Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins, strategists believe.

Forgive me if too tedious…

[redalways]

What an idiot.

[dalglish]

Which is why blue sky - regardless of the echo chamber or future troll infestation arguments - is such a necessary step. Twitter is officially a MAGA mouthpiece.