archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoWhy are we wasting our server bandwidth on shit takes?midwest.socialimagemessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down154
arrow-up1103arrow-down1imageWhy are we wasting our server bandwidth on shit takes?midwest.socialarchomrade [he/him]@midwest.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-squarexantoxis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·edit-26 months agoDoing both. The POTUS doesn’t read Lemmy and go “haha these fools are gonna vote for me, I don’t gotta change shit”. To the extent you can influence that office at all, you can do it while simultaneously urging people to vote for the lesser evil.
minus-squarearchomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down7·edit-26 months ago340 million americans probably don’t read lemmy either, wouldn’t that mean urging people on lemmy to vote for the lesser evil is also ineffectual?
minus-squarexantoxis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·6 months agoIt probably is, but 52k DAU’s isn’t nothing. That’s more than you can reach by phone banking.
minus-squarearchomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·6 months agoI imagine the value is also that those people will talk to other people, right? Building a movement one voter at a time? Does that sound right?
Doing both. The POTUS doesn’t read Lemmy and go “haha these fools are gonna vote for me, I don’t gotta change shit”. To the extent you can influence that office at all, you can do it while simultaneously urging people to vote for the lesser evil.
340 million americans probably don’t read lemmy either, wouldn’t that mean urging people on lemmy to vote for the lesser evil is also ineffectual?
It probably is, but 52k DAU’s isn’t nothing. That’s more than you can reach by phone banking.
I imagine the value is also that those people will talk to other people, right?
Building a movement one voter at a time? Does that sound right?