Re: Twitter
  By: August Abolins to Arelor on Thu Apr 28 2022 09:02 am

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Thursday 28.04.22 - 04:34, Arelor wrote to Mark Hofmann:
 > 
 >  A> They have been running an advertising campaign in my
 >  A> province, pasting banners everywhere that read "Social
 >  A> Media is not Journalism" and things like that.
 > 
 > Yeah.. they think the minions need short phrases like because
 > they think that the minions only absorb memes.     But any
 > intelligent person would realize that "social media" is a
 > platform, and "journalism" is an activity.
 > 
 > --
 >   ../|ug

Actually, most people needs short concepts because they fail to understand
anything bigger.

As a practical example: a common complaint in Spain was that it was hard to
figure out what a unknown party represented because they rarely published their
ideas or programs somewhere you could read them. Most Spaniards don't know what
a libertarian *is* so if they hit the Libertarian Party's website they will
have no idea of what the party fights for unless it is explained to them. So
far, this is common sense.

The Libertarian Party ended up publishing a mini program with the
easy-to-understand ideas in the website, alongside a full program worth 200
fucking pages of what the party is, what the goals are, and what is the plan to
get them. The idea is that people could get a feel for what the party was from
the mini program and then delve deeper in the bigger document if they wanted to
know more.

The end result was ridiculous.

I personally ran into a lot of people who accused the Libertarian Party of
endorsing things that were clearly opposed by the program. The conversations
usually went like this:

Random Paco: "You Libertarian's suck because you support the Church and are
anti-gay"
ME: "Not really. We want separation between the Church and the State and we
also have anti-discrimination proposals. It is explained in the website."
Ranom Paco: "I read in your website that you are Capitalists, so that means you
are pro Church and anti-gay!"
ME: "You haven't read the pdf with the political framework, have you?"
Random Paco: "Bleh, that is too much work."

Common people wants to be sponfed three core ideas and don't want to
investigate the arguments backing these ideas. Doing the work required to
decide if somebody is worth voting is too much work I guess. They will be
content with a card with three slogans thrown in, and that is what they will
get most often, because extra effort is wasted.

Think of it. A card with three easy consigns such as "We love gays" and "Tax
the rich!" is so much more effective than four sheet of paper, because people
does not want to delve deeper.


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