One reason Democratic members of Congress are still going on about "bipartisanship" and "distractions" is because they and their staff members are still spending most of their time on X. The online people who would normally talk sense into them are all here on Bluesky. 🧵
& Threads ... Yes, so true
I'm in Australia, I'm surprised when people quote what's been said on that other platform.
AOC straight up stopped posting here when she got pushback, it's been a month. Incredibly disappointed.
We all live in a simulacrum but DC Dems doubly so because they live in a simulacrum of their consultants’ and staff’s simulacrum.
No. The reason is they all take money from AIPAC and major corporate donors. They go on about bipartisanship and distractions because they want to say something that won't rock any boats or expose them to the possibility of being primaried. You can't buff the turd that is the Democratic party.
That they are still on shitter is telling in itself, isn’t it.
Yeah, this is a good point. Oh, point 1b is probably that they have dimwit consultants telling them what to think and say.
Another reason is, well, look at who their main donors are.
Yep. Always follow the money
There’s def a reason why encouraging Elon to purchase Twitter was high on the far right agenda, along with Fox it’s their equivalent of Goebbel’s push to have a radio they could talk through in every German living room
Maybe some are just smart enough to realize they don’t want sense talked into them by “Democrat strategist” who post garbage like this.
This is really important point.
you have a dog's brain, my good sir
Then those people literally lack object permanence and should be put in adult day care
Most of them have to go, we have known they were pretty worthless for a hell of along time. The States is where the real battles must be won right now.
As far as I’m concerned bipartisanship is dead. The GOP has become a party that is unrecognizable in beliefs and values. Ronald Reagan would be considered too “woke” to belong. It’s now a cult of Trump and I want my Democratic Representatives to work against everything they stand for.
They also had the recent experience of impeaching Trump twice, convicting him of a felony, indicting him in 4 jurisdictions, mounting the two largest protests in US history, watching him assault the Capitol on TV and losing to him because people were unhappy with inflation.
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I’m so fucking tired of the outrage you juveniles exhibit bc a dem uses the word bipartisan. When something is actually bipartisan (support for release of the Epstein files) there’s no reason not to use it. And yes goddamn it, it is a worthy aspiration in a democratic society.
Most of them have completely dropped off posting on Bsky aside from a few with scheduled posts. I believe this is an intentional reaction to two things: 1. Mamdani’s win and their realization of how powerful bsky actually is. 2. The very valid and logical criticisms made of their poor strategy here.
They left because bsky was… too powerful?
I like it here but it can be an echo chamber with little debate or idea swapping.
They've cooked their brains over there listening to Yglesias, Klein, Shor, etc., while surrounded by a cacophony of MAGA Nazis and troll farm bots. It's not healthy. The algorithm on X actively warps how people see the world in an extremely toxic way. It becomes much worse when your friends leave.
Nice try dude. But they've all been going on in this way since before Twitter existed.
This is, of course, not an argument for returning to that far-right cesspool. It's just another sign that they should be here, with the ideological spear point of their political party. I'm not saying it's the only reason they're acting like this. Far from it. But it's a significant factor.
The Obama guy. "We tortured some folks" guy. 🙄
A site where Democratic party ops are paying to boost the #BlueMAGA line? Is that what you're saying? Come on now. bsky.app/profile/sjon...
Information spaces are siloed off from each other. If you're hanging out at a Nazi bar, getting yelled at all day, it makes sense when Matt Yglesias advises you to reason or make peace with the other patrons. But it would make a lot more sense to just leave.
People are actually (gasp) able to have multiple social media accounts. And, they're actually (gasp) able to form thoughts that aren't fed to them by social media. WOW!!!!
"the Twitter racism problem is an open sewage line pouring the worst evils of history into the brains of the entire US intellectual and political class if you start handing it to the nazi contingent, the nazis will thank you for admitting they're correct, and then they will put a knife into your
Shor chat and X leaks: "guy making the failed Dem talking point strategy (david shor) is also part of the chats so dem strategy is being planned by the right" "If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research bsky.app/profile/whst...
Yep.
Sounds like a factor but not all? E.g. what accts for Blue state gov'ts, most of which had break-glass plans in place with budget by November '24. Gallup says 2% Dems + 27% Inds vs 89% R's are w Trump, the way is clearly not bipartisan. They should grok that without online discussion, you know?
Hmm. No.
I've called, written and Tweeted to Merkley about it...months ago. I've never received a response.
I call 3 times a week and say to my Senators and Rep. The algorithm on X is feeding you garbage. If you're not active on Bluesky, you are missing the dem base. I think the other issue is the age of the Senate. Keep in mind they are the sweep it under the rug generation.
They were just as insufferable and ineffective when we were all on Twitter what the hell are you talking about. I was ON Twitter a decade ago or whatever complaining about the Mass legislative D supermajority bending itself into absolute knots to placate the like one republican in the chamber
Inventing hypothetical independent voters over and over again to water down or deflect broadly popular policies. They've always been listening to these dipshit instead of us (the folks who came to bluesky instead)