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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yea sure. Nothing wrong with that. Government also provides social assistance, mental health support and outreach programs. The city I live in has a downtown that is destroyed by the homeless. The people trying to run their business have lost their livelihoods because the homeless hang out in the streets smoking crack and begging people for money. Nobody wants to bring their family downtown because of the drug use and drug users stumbling around at 3pm. Being a leftist and wanting to help the homeless shouldn’t mean we ignore the other people in society or the impact that homelessness has on everyone. I’m tired of having to accept drug use next to high schools just because people treat the homeless like lost kittens on the left. They’re real people. They make their choices. They deserve help but that doesn’t also mean we treat them like they don’t have autonomy or abilities of their own to not use drugs in areas where kids or businesses are trying to operate.


  • Because you’re thinking about it wrong. With a bigger population it’ll cost more to influence them. If you ever watched how they did it in 2016, they started small, always. The first sub Reddit’s to see lots of opinion shifts where small subs like local interest before they moved on to the larger metropolitan ones. If you’re paying to influence people then you need a chain of initiation to start. This makes Lemmy a much greater target than Reddit. Look at opinions on AI. Lemmy was full on sharing multiple daily headlines like “AI is coming for your daughter’s” while Reddit thought it was just a neat tool.

    The goal is 10%

    You need to create enough bots to maintain 10% of the content is favoring your view. If you can sustain that then opinions begin to shift for the entire group. People will start to join and create their own. That 10% is much easier to achieve in smaller places. Lemmy is perfect for it











  • Sure. Keep telling yourself whatever you need to justify all these losses every day. The left is cooked. There’s no coming back from this. It’s not the fault of the billionaires or the Trump’s or Nazis. It’s the fault of the left for giving it all up and being so unappealing that those assholes could grow and capture the people the left alienated




  • You’re going to learn quickly in the coming years that these facts aren’t going to prevent you from getting punched in the face and thrown into a cage. I don’t think this guy is a Nazi or listed the Indian war as some kind of back handed reference to that. But I do think there’s no amount of loss you can suffer that would ever make you realize how badly people like you have fucked everything up the past 10 years.



  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.caThat ad Trump is so whiny about
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    Right, so stop letting them steam roll the left FFS. Stop being lazy. Go back to the offensive position and stop allowing nazis to spread their ideas. This generation of leftist are the most ineffective they’ve ever been. 7 million people willing to drive to a nearest city to stand in a street but they can’t muster half that energy to actually confront these Nazis either online or in person. It’s pathetic.

    I bet most people have close family that can tell them about cat litter in classrooms and transgendered bathrooms but zero people in your family that can tell you why we need a social safety net or why Charlie Kirk was a racist. You people need to wake the fuck up and realize why that is



  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.caThat ad Trump is so whiny about
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    What sucks bout the left is that clearly we all know how much this ad infuriates him. The left can’t be bothered to share stuff that bothers trump. Like they’ll window watch. Barely give an upvote. Definitely not spread it though. I looked on Reddit and this was at 2k upvotes. Like the lefts online engagement is weaker than their punches. If you can’t even muster the courage to gut punch donny online when it takes no effort, you sure as fuck ain’t ever going to punch any Nazis in real life. This is why nobody on the right is scared or concerned of the left. They can’t even seize on these layups. 2k people bothered to upvote a video on a platform of millions. There was 7 million in the streets the other week. Where’d they go?