Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

"We took it for granted because we stopped listening, we started confining ourselves to bubbles. Which is why I tweeted yesterday about the move off of X, into BlueSky and other platforms, only limits our ability to listen, learn, understand and ingratiate ourselves to others."

, Democrat Congressman, 2024

levernews.com/the-democrat-who

Way to miss the point. Yes, *politicians* need to be on X, or anywhere their constituents might be.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Other people might choose to keep using an X account, as part of a strategy of helping more people find their way out of The Matrix of corporate DataFarming. Good on them.

But castigating people for moving to more democratic platforms ignores 2 crucial things; network effects and wellbeing. Staying on a DataFarm run by a known technofascist helps him maintain the network power he bought in order to abuse it, in pursuit of his agendas. Plus it can be corrosive to our mental health.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

"If there's not an interest ... to invite different perspectives to the table, start organising this party in a way that would be effective, and have accountability. Have a communications platform ... that unifies messaging instead of silos it. If that doesn't happen, I'm really inspired to help create competition for both parties."

#DeanPhillips, Democrat Congressman, 2024

https://www.levernews.com/the-democrat-who-tried-to-warn-us-with-rep-dean_phillips/

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

"Because few [US]Americans know [both major parties are] both private corporations, that are not accountable to voters, they're accountable to their officers, and just as George Washington warned, in his farewell address in 1796 ... political factions - parties - are putting their putting this country at great risk."

#DeanPhillips, Democrat Congressman, 2024

https://www.levernews.com/the-democrat-who-tried-to-warn-us-with-rep-dean_phillips/

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