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   Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 18:15:22 JST Dare Obasanjo

   Product managers, do you know how you get to 100 million users in 5 days for your MVP product?

   By cutting features and only doing the barest minimum but make those features excellent.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 18:15:12 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • TinDrum

     @oscarjiminy @carnage4life

     The number of Black people that were legally eligible to vote in 2016, but that were illegally prevented from voting, was larger than the entire margin of victory for Trump. But we don't like to talk about that. 🤷🏿♂️

     People who know that their family members are racist for a long time, pretend that they only started being racist after Cambridge Analytica. That's a lie.

     Trump gave people who were racist inside the house permission to be racist outside of the house too.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 18:15:13 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • TinDrum

     @oscarjiminy @carnage4life

     I'm not minimizing anything.

     People love to gloss over real racism in the electorate, and pretend like the big bad boogeyman of Cambridge Analytica tricked people's parents into voting racist. That's just not what happened.

     Those people were enjoying Fox News for 20 years before Cambridge Analytica. Trump won because of extreme voter suppression, clear and simple.

     The attitudes of those Trump voters didn't change before or after the election.

     Erin Conroy and Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     TinDrum (oscarjiminy@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 18:15:19 JST TinDrum

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     • mekka okereke :verified:

     @mekkaokereke @carnage4life Good points, well made but it’s good not to minimise the damage and even minimal influence on an election like the US presidential election is huge imo

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 18:15:20 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     @carnage4life

     Even now, there are people reading what I just wrote, and interpreting it as some kind of glowing endorsement of Meta's business priorities. 🤷🏿♂️

     Or they're getting ready to rage type some exaggerated nonsense at me about how big an impact Cambridge Analytica had on getting Trump elected. (The impact was tiny).

     That type of myopia makes it really difficult to learn from people and organizations that you don't like. Which is a significant weakness.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 18:15:21 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     @carnage4life

     Part of the reason that people that compete against Meta so often get smoked, is that their dislike for all things Meta clouds their judgement, making them incapable of seeing or acknowledging the things that Meta is extremely good at.

     "Oh, they just copied from Twitter!" or "Oh, they just moved their other customers over!" is a remarkably shallow analysis of what they just did.