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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People' (www.polygon.com)
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If you're trying to reach people, you need to go where they are.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    "Where they are" is actively being used to manipulate and control them. As long as he keeps "meeting people where they are", that's where they will remain, and he is actively contributing to perpetuating that. Change means taking them somewhere else.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They will remain there until content creators they regularly watch and enjoy start moving. Mamdani is not that. No one is going to be creating a twitch account just to watch this, nor would they do it for some much smaller platform they've never heard of. Mamdani is not the one that will get people to move to new platforms, at least, not before he gets them more interested in the first place. Young people like him specifically because he reaches out to them on a personal level on platforms they actually use.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    They will remain there until content creators they regularly watch and enjoy start moving. Mamdani is not that.

    Do you just not understand the "chicken and egg" scenario you're describing? Someone has to be first.

    No one is going to be creating a twitch account just to watch this

    ...and why not?

    Mamdani is not the one that will get people to move to new platforms

    Again I ask, why not? Why couldn't he be? Who better than someone with his influence, whose entire job it is to make life better for his constituents?

    Young people like him specifically because he reaches out to them on a personal level on platforms they actually use.

    No one likes him because of the platforms he uses. They're just already on those platforms.

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