Not really. There is a right wing podcast with a rotating host of fascists and Newsom as the only guest where they just dog walk him.

What gives you faith in this system?

I feel like the big tech push to apps so folks can have data harvested better has become a surprising hurdle for the fediverse. Because I’ve found the web UI for most of the fediverse great, and the apps to be harder for devs to maintain.

If you have faith in these systems, I can see how one might see this as progress. But it’s like saying “the wheels are spinning, we must be moving” while stuck in mud. I consider it progress with they do something. When the people that are inflicting violence on random members of the community are physically stopped. When police stop treating unmasked men with guns violating the constitution as allies. When they can’t shuffle away murders to relocate them another state, and are instead stopped at the airport. Maybe then I could muster some faith for the judicial system, but as it sits, I don’t care if their on the ‘double plus super notice squared of the 5th degree warning’ they are going to stop nazis in the street for real this time.

Huh?

Do you have math on the statistics that would suggest the error rate would be higher than 2.8%?

and by text message.

To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents

I think they thought of that

The survey was conducted among 1,625 registered voters nationwide from Jan. 12 to 17, 2026.

This poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, 98 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphone.

Voters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and region. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 188,000 calls or texts to more than 86,000 voters.

To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the page, under “Composition of the Sample.”

The margin of sampling error among registered voters is about plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error.

then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.

“Sure I found that document you needed, and with it, I also found this great new game I know you’ll love. Raid: Shadow Legends, It’s a free to pla…”

I cannot wait for companies spending 300 dollars per user per month for this convenience.

It was kinda funny coming to this comment already with a downvote. I guess point proven 🤷‍♂️

Well like much analysis of economic impact, that’s hard to quantify, so we can just assume it’s trivial.

I think this mentality breaks down in the reality of the system we currently have. They are constantly working to make your vote mean less. The structures of our constitution effective gerrymander the states’ influence on national levels through the senate. Similarly, the electoral collage is built to favor the right. And after all that the higher courts have been packed by republican, effectively giving an override to functionally any law in the form of sloppy logic from a broken supreme court.

All of that to say, if you draw the line at specifically your ability to cast a vote, regardless of the voice you actually have, you’ve essentially decided so long as there is the theater of democracy you will do nothing to help save it.

Are you censoring yourself saying ass?

It is a bit academic at this point. I just hoped that liberals contend with the reality that you have to align with your voters, rather than always trying to set blame on the millions that stay politically disaffected.

Definitionally, talking about two causally linked things is not whataboutism. You could argue it’s shifting blame, and I would still disagree, but at least it would be coherent.

I corrected a typo, hope it cleared up a bit, but in case it didn’t; the point being it doesn’t mater what you think people ought to do, or ought to feel ashamed about. If your political method ends with, “Well then you’re an asshole and I give up” at the first sign of resistance, congratulations you’ve perfectly described the democratic party for the last decade+.

Ah, thank you, fixed.

There’s nowhere good to go from there.

lol I say no once and you’re out of ideas. I return to my thesis, people with your political instincts are why we are where we are.

No. Now what?

Cool. I am shamed, now what?