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[–] 51 points 5 months ago (4 children)

He is trying to be the next FDR with modernized fireside chats, and I am vibing with it.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yup. Mamdani is teaching the modern left how to spread the message. There is a lot of disdain from the left on social media. A lot of us are smart enough to recognise that socmed is vapid and shallow. But we're not too bright to recognise that that is where people are at these days, no matter how dumb socmed is. That's why the often criticism of the left is the poor messaging. Now I understand what that criticism mean.

    Social media is the new plaza, like how radio, cinema and TV were during FDR's time. As a matter of fact, the Nazis also recognised the potential power of radio. One of their early policies is to buy everyone a radio; so that the Nazis could control information. This is not different from today in which oligarchs and the far right also recognised the potential of socmed as a tool for control.

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

    its the oldguard dnc that doesnt know how to reach thier voters, they stuck to the traditional MSM where everything is curated and controlled.

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

    Ignoring social media has been the biggest mistake of the left across the world. In my home country, an objectively better and progressive candidate was outvoted by the son of an ex-dictator by a landslide, because the said candidate is an old school progressive who still does the old-fashioned way of convincing voters, by going door to door and relying on legacy media, instead of presenting a brand of herself in social media like Mamdani does. That's when I realised "yup, social media is now where the frontline is, whether we like it or not."

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    The problem of fighting for democracy using social media, is that the ones controlling the algorithm are precisely the ones that don't want the "left" to succeed. It is essentially fighting a battle in the enemy's field, where they control the land itself. At small scales, it might work. But it will never work when it comes to true important positions. I'd go as far as to say that the mirage that it works in cases like Mandani is part of their plan, to keep the left locked in their platforms "because that's what works". Here in my country, Brazil, I could clearly see the impacts of the algorithm changes they put in place after 2011, after the pro-democracy movements that started on Facebook. Their networks started to curb engagement from the left, and massively boost fake news, right-wing content, ultra nationalism, and such. It's naive to think that social media can be used to win the populace back to the left. They'll never let it happen.

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

    Been waiting for such a long time for a politician to do this. NYC did an amazing job at electing him.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Castro used to do it.

    It started as anyone could call.

    Then it was selected callers and their ore screened questions

    Then it was his team calling and asking the right questions

    Then he stopped.

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago

    Fireside chats are so back

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago

    I hope there will be an army of mods, as well, to deal with the absolute tsunami of slurs that will be thrown at him.

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

    i am so tired my glasses are starting to fail me and i read:

    Major Zohran Mamdani is going to live (short i) on twitch in new streaming series.

    so i pictured a netflix show where he lives on twitch 24/7 in a big brother type living room.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    The mainstream press, being owned by the mega wealthy, hasn't exactly been platforming and fair in its reporting of left wing candidates in general. This has now morphed to a strategy by left wind politicians to go directly to their voters on social media. Zack Polensky, the Green party leader in the UK, has drastically improved his parties standing simply by delivering their policies directly on Twitter and other social media. This is quite likely to become the way that left wing politicians operate in the near future. They potentially seek to gain leverage to fairer representation and presence in mainstream media, although that might not even matter given the mass exodus and distrust of the people of those old platforms.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    But twitch is owned by Amazon and frankly they can and do moderate Twitch streams.

    This is not supposed to be a discouragement of politicians connecting with the public via any means necessary.

    I just want to point out the flawed logic of saying news media is owned by billionaires so it can't be trusted, but twitch, also owned by a billionaire can somehow be trusted.

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

    They aren't yet putting up barriers since their sole purpose is people connecting to each other. There is every chance they do move to restricting access but I think it would be the death of Twitch and certainly Twitter if they started doing so. Social media doesn't require us to trust some group of people to choose our content for us and as such is a lot less prone to that bias and billionaire control. That isn't to say the billionaires don't have an effect, on Twitter what people are exposed to by the algorithm is very intentional and controlled as is the front page roll on Twitch, but unlike mainstream media its still possiblr to see and connect with the unfavoured content and grass roots movements can still form. I would prefer this was all on the fediverse but its not where the people are yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I use twitch. It doesn't take much at all to get a ban of any kind. I've seen twitch streamers get banned mid stream. I think this stream in particular is likely to attract a lot of people who disagree with his political leanings and want to troll. It'll be heavily modded and there are likely to be topics that will not be discussed because they're problematic enough that a troll could use twitch's own guidelines against the stream.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    it serves 2 purposes reaching the gen-z pop, if amazon decides to block him, then the viewers/audiences will know and it will cause a streisand effect.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I think this cuts two ways.

    1. If anything goes wrong with this stream at all, whether it's Amazon's fault or not, it will be perceived as if they sabotaged it by the people who support him.
    2. If nothing goes wrong then we have the same problem we had with ByteDance and Tik Tok, where the perception is that the platform is a "bastion of free speech that people who support him put more trust in. We saw how this went with Tik Tok. Where people were convinced that it was censoring them less and promoting more liberal content when in fact we know from recent news articles that this is not in fact the case.

    Neither of these things should make twitch a good platform for this type of thing, but it does happen to be what is available and well known.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    If this guy runs for president we will have many bots going "oh yeah what about that one time he hesitated to call it a genocide". Don't get me wrong it is %100 a genocide but equating someone with Trump because of this would be ridiculous, he is one of the most progressive democrats around which makes for a nice jumping board.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    He was born in Uganda so he can't run for president. No worries there.

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

    We have a rapist, thief, traitor, and war criminal in the oval office. There are many immigrants who have more honor, integrity, and intelligence than Agent "Krasnov" Orange.

    Sticking to rules, when the Grand Old Pedophile party uses them selectively, is a fool's game. We must either elect Mamdani or AOC, preferably both, into top offices.

    If the GOP protests? Punch them, and ignore their opinion. Because they don't give a shit about law nor decency, and should face the consequences of breaching the social contract.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    I kind of think blatantly violating the constitution is a good way to not get put on any ballots in the USA. Like the states board of elections would never go along with that. That's silly talk.

    Plenty of politicians that are deserving of the presidency exist aside from AOC.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    dang it I could almost see the bots

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    That's because you're accustomed to imagining bots whenever you see opposition to genocide.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    you haven't even read my previous msg did you? oh wait judging by the single downvote on each post you did. I suppose you just did not want to process it in that case.

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

    Sorry. I thought your initial comment was saying that the opposition to genocide that exists is petty and unreasonable and has no legitimate grievances.

    Were you not saying that?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    No what I was saying is more related to discussion in bad faith. I find discussions around things like "Bernie didn't call it a genocide he called only it a horrific crime so he is no different from Trump" quite vacuous and possibly in bad faith too. For instance, I think that if he was the president, US would not be backing the genocide irregardless of whether he called it a genocide or not and that is what matters.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    He can't, he was not born in the USA

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

    Hope he's doing a world tour after he's done with NYC :)

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

    I personally don't foresee this being that good of an idea. I foresee disinformation bots, porn link bots, and hate comments forcibly flooding the chat to ensure nothing actually happens, with not enough moderators to deal with it all. That, and twitch refusing to help moderate and instead shutting the account down in an attempt to silence him for big daddy Baldo.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago*

    its not like traditional MSM is going to give him a fair light,, where the propaganda is even worst. hes targeting his audience, young gen-z people and maybe some milleneals. hes villified by both old guard DNC and the gop.

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