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Such explanations – that Ds "misunderstood" voters and could have won if they had understood better – ignore the degree to which the election was driven by Covid hangover – which arguably no D could have overcome. In other words, bad luck (the timing of the pandemic, slow speed of recovery) was a huge factor in the election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/09/harris-biden-trump-elec
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AP cleans up Biden's "garbage" quote to remove all ambiguity, turning it into a straight-up insult. (At best, it's unclear.) This is journalism malpractice – everybody knows Biden does not talk in complete sentences like this
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-supporters-garbage-puerto-rico-comic-e62ccf9108ba0ca8d1ee694f91a6867e
📊 Post engagement
1
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The question of why a majority voted for a clearly unfit candida · 1 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.31 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.5×
Follows 313 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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@GottaLaff (This is on BlueSky of course)
@GottaLaff Hey there, a friend forwarded me your post about my blocking you ... Sorry about that! I enjoy your feed and did not mean to block you, it was purely a random butt-block. I have unblocked.
Weird to see David Brooks engaging in straight-up moral relativism, seeing "MAGA morality" as reflecting an anti-institutionalist value system.
That's not wrong, exactly, as explanation – but as presented also just another way of normaliz…
I haven't given up on Mastodon, the concept has a lot going for it. But the current execution is too difficult/complex, and with too much cliquishness exalting those very difficulties, to be broadly appealing
"A sort of Linux of social media networks." Josh Marshall cuts deep on the basic problem with Mastodon https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-your-phone-thinking-about-bluesky
At the same time, Covid played more or less the same role in Trump's 2020 defeat. Another case of bad luck. I know people want to believe that parties and candidates, through their campaign strategies, have significant power over voter dec…
So maybe Ds should not be tearing their hair out over bad luck and factors beyond their control? Republicans never do, and look where we are.
Such explanations – that Ds "misunderstood" voters and could have won if they had understood better – ignore the degree to which the election was driven by Covid hangover – which arguably no D could have overcome. In other words, bad luck …
One seemingly abstract yet important implication of the popular vote loss: MAGA has been legitimized as a majority – which undermines the legitimacy of opposing positions and what has been normative for generations. Set aside your old 6th …
AP cleans up Biden's "garbage" quote to remove all ambiguity, turning it into a straight-up insult. (At best, it's unclear.) This is journalism malpractice – everybody knows Biden does not talk in complete sentences like this
https://apnew…
On some level NYT political coverage manifests as a series of dominance-subtweets at liberal critics and the Harris campaign
Weird to see David Brooks engaging in straight-up moral relativism, seeing "MAGA morality" as reflecting an anti-institutionalist value system.
That's not wrong, exactly, as explanation – but as presented also just another way of normaliz…
I haven't given up on Mastodon, the concept has a lot going for it. But the current execution is too difficult/complex, and with too much cliquishness exalting those very difficulties, to be broadly appealing
"A sort of Linux of social media networks." Josh Marshall cuts deep on the basic problem with Mastodon https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-your-phone-thinking-about-bluesky
At the same time, Covid played more or less the same role in Trump's 2020 defeat. Another case of bad luck. I know people want to believe that parties and candidates, through their campaign strategies, have significant power over voter dec…
So maybe Ds should not be tearing their hair out over bad luck and factors beyond their control? Republicans never do, and look where we are.
Such explanations – that Ds "misunderstood" voters and could have won if they had understood better – ignore the degree to which the election was driven by Covid hangover – which arguably no D could have overcome. In other words, bad luck …
One seemingly abstract yet important implication of the popular vote loss: MAGA has been legitimized as a majority – which undermines the legitimacy of opposing positions and what has been normative for generations. Set aside your old 6th …
AP cleans up Biden's "garbage" quote to remove all ambiguity, turning it into a straight-up insult. (At best, it's unclear.) This is journalism malpractice – everybody knows Biden does not talk in complete sentences like this
https://apnew…
On some level NYT political coverage manifests as a series of dominance-subtweets at liberal critics and the Harris campaign
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Journalist (SciAm, Smithsonian, Washington Post, others; where it started: Times-Picayune), author (Path of Destruction [Katrina], Tasty [science of flavor]), currently PhD candidate at University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
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