Some dork with 200,000 followers saying the CCP is bad probably has 1/1,000,000,000th the influence on your average Americans opinion than one Fox News or CNN host has.

And on the flip side them stanning the CCP would have a similarly meaningless affect.

So idk why we spend so much time getting pissy at them for their hot takes when all when all of them disappearing tomorrow wouldn’t change anything.

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Warlock and Ossoff won in part because the GOP tried to call them Marxist CCP supporters which was far too esoteric for the average Georgian to give a shit about.

    This is mostly correct, but I'd say it's more precisely stated as:

    • Voters who follow "the news" kinda-sorta give a shit about China, because they're bombarded with takes about it nonstop
    • Voters who wake up one day and say "There's an election this week? Who are these assholes and should I even bother?" tune most of that shit out

    In general, we greatly overestimate how much any aspect of foreign policy moves the needle for people.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      4 years ago

      In general, we greatly overestimate how much any aspect of foreign policy moves the needle for people.

      Partially. In general, you can see from election results that the American people are pretty subtly anti-war, which is why so much consent needs to be manufactured and they can't ever be given a meaningful opportunity to express that desire with a major candidate.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        That's a great bit of clarification. People do lean anti-war (at least "real" wars that the U.S. directly fights); it's more the endless variety of regional crises that most people tune out entirely. No appreciable amount of votes are determined by our relationship with Saudi Arabia, for instance.