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Lyn Alden lyn@primal.net 1 year ago
Feels like memes won the election. Candidates unironically have to be positively meme-able to be successful going forward. And in particular, candidates can’t have the vibe of an HR manager that would call you into the office to talk about your inappropriate memes. Trump is meme-able. Obama was meme-able. Even Biden had his Dark Brandon meme but otherwise was not great on that front. Kamala is totally not meme-able. image

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Zeitgeist won the election. It all just aligned. Shitshows only grow stronger until they explode.
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zebra zebra@nostr.fan 1 year ago
it is because this election designed to be emotional. if were for example were presented with 5 candidates and we had to arranged them in order we prefer - this became less emotional. and then we choose candidate who is most often on the highest place. in this case we would find person who is ok with most voters
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Lyn Alden lyn@primal.net 1 year ago
Memes actually condense a lot of information into a tiny bite. But yeah, ideally a politician would then also have detailed positions that they can articulate well in debates.
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curt finch 1 year ago
this is where me learning from younger people has value because this would never occur to me
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Matt Corallo matt@bitcoin.ninja 1 year ago
A lot of the “Trump won because….” takes feel incredibly US-myopic. This was the year of more democratic elections across the world than almost any other and nearly all of them “surprised” in how strongly they voted against the party in power (both left and right). The universal rule of politics remains undefeated - people vote their pocket books.
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Matt Corallo matt@bitcoin.ninja 1 year ago
(Not that Kamala wasn’t a pretty poor candidate or that Trump didn’t generate excitement, of course, but the economy is a *really* strong headwind in any election, one that’s nearly improve to overcome)
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npub1cyu4...0ukd 1 year ago
yes. i see many people reading too much into demographics etc. well guess what, people like money in the pocket, regardless of the colour of their skin and regardless of wheter the candidate they vote for actually delivers or not.
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justanode 1 year ago
That fake phone call is quite meme-able…
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Willheim willheim@orangepillapp.com 1 year ago
That's a very "Black Mirror" take... Oh, wait, they did that in the first season. But, hey, willing to give it a shot in Canada. Trudeau is nauseatingly memeable (all bad memes) but Polievre has been less so (aside from his apple eating takedown few have taken off). Mind you, if we were to do it they'd just say "the conservatives are importing American style politics" (one of their favourite go to arguments of the left in Canada).
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