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I don't like the doctors talking down to me. I don't want to see a bunch of charts and figures, I know Ginny wasn't right after she got her vaccine. That stuff might work on the liberals, but not on me.

Yeah. In most democracies, the NYT would at this point be a conservative establishment paper. It's only in the USA that they seem liberal.

And the whole thing is fuckin stupid. It's not the press's job to be nice to Biden. It's not anybody's job to give "respect" to the NYT that they sound like they feel they're entitled to. It's okay to work within a cordial professional productive level alongside people you have some level of beef with and don't really like, and it seems like both the Biden and NYT camps have forgotten that.

The fuck is the Brahmin left?

The subheadings alone won't give you a very good idea about it; they honestly don't really indicate much on their own. If you are trying to get a sense of what the article says in TL;DR form, you could do a lot worse than this little excerpt:

Two months after the 2022 midterms, a poll by the nonprofit American Family Voices asked 600 likely voters living in industrial counties across six Midwestern states to name the top issues. “The rising cost of living” led, with 37 percent, because at the time the Consumer Price Index was twice what it is today. But ranking second was “jobs and the economy”—which Democratic candidates had avoided in the election.

Don’t blame President Joe Biden, who has lavished more attention on working-class issues than any president since Harry Truman (and considerably more than Biden’s three modern Democratic predecessors Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter). Blame Biden’s fellow Democrats. Only half of the Democratic-candidate websites surveyed by the Center for Working-Class Politics bothered to mention Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Only about one-quarter mentioned Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, which is spending another half-trillion on technologies to reduce climate change. And only 15 percent mentioned the CHIPS Act, signed into law three months before the election, which will spend another $53 billion to boost domestic manufacture of semiconductors. The combined effect of these three bills has been to nearly triple the construction of manufacturing facilities since Biden took office.

Part of the Democratic reticence was perhaps attributable to Biden’s low approval rating, then stuck around 40. Still, however unpopular Biden was (and remains), Biden’s policies are very popular, especially among working-class voters—on those rare occasions when they hear about it. The IRA, for example, was favored in a March 2023 poll by 68 percent of people earning between $50,000 and $99,999. But these working-class people needed the pollsters (from Yale and George Mason) to first explain what the Inflation Reduction Act was. A 61 percent majority had no idea.

And it lays out a bunch of specific prescriptions for what to do about that weird disconnect.

Yeah, this is a really good article.

Pretty much the only thing I would add to its list (and overlapping with some of its detail recommendations) would be to hire some younger people and some more present-day-media savvy people. Trump's whole operation works because it's full of people who know how to effectively influence public opinion, and I feel like Biden's campaign is still relying very heavily on the path to failure that is the DC political-consultancy elite.

If the comment had said "In North Korea, the state security force can just puts you in a prison camp for years for way way less than these protestors did, and it's a bad thing that we're emulating 5% of their police state behavior, because that's still too much," then sure. I would have written a different thing in reply, if they had said that.

I don't think that's the kind of thing people talk about when they say North Korea is oppressive

Do you know what happens to you in North Korea the day after you attend a protest against the government's policies? Because it definitely isn't getting dropped off and having to find your own way back home.

Also with bonus frog picture

"Flaws"

who is this random stranger setting up a table talking about a thing I find upsetting but it's protected by state law

"Well, we didn't mean these kinds of things I find upsetting."

"What kinds of things in terms of upsetting speech were you planning on protecting vigorously?"

"Oh... well, you know..."

(I also like the little construction where they imply Texas invented the first amendment)

All good 👍🏻

Hey! I see, that is wonderful. And makes sense; maybe I am excessively suspicious.

I mean, I definitely suspect it of not being you. It hadn't even occurred to me until you told me tonight to look at your Reddit account, but yes, when I looked at it and !longbeach@lemmy.world, the voting post among some other things seemed a tiny bit off.

Are you offering to post on Reddit to demonstrate that, weird voting post notwithstanding, it really is you on both accounts? It honestly doesn't seem super impactful either way, I just thought it was weird.