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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 02:25:52 JST Cory Doctorow

   Once you learn about the "collective action problem," you start seeing it everywhere. Democrats - including elected officials - all wanted Biden to step down, but none of them wanted to be the first one to take a firm stand, so for months, his campaign limped on: a collective action problem.

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     @pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS (pineywoozle@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 02:25:50 JST @pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS

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     @pluralistic Don’t mistake that reply for me not being 1000% behind Kamala. I would have happily voted for her in 2020. Joe knew who he was picking. They’re both hard-working roll up your sleeves get the job done Dems. The media tried to erase her in 2020. They erased her off the debate stage in a promo photo The Hill reporting the best fundraising completely left her out, even though she had had the best quarter. The problem then & now isn’t the quality of the Dems it’s the MSM #HarrisWalz2024

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     @pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS (pineywoozle@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 02:25:51 JST @pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS

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     @pluralistic Bad example, “All“ Dems didn’t want that. I read 1,000s of comments across multiple platforms. Almost no voters wanted it.They were enthusiastically behind Biden.CNN’s polls after the debate showed almost no dip. If the Press ‘d been truthful & reported on tRump’s word salad, his lies & his P2025 ties w/ 1/10th the rigor they applied to one bad debate it wouldn’t have happened. The collective action needed, wanted & called for was honest reporting #VOTE #HARRIS F@CK #tRump #USPol

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.