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@legaleagle.tv unwisely asked me for thoughts.

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Same story, posted same time: Bluesky - 393 reposts, 551 likes Twitter/X - 3 retweets, 7 likes

Too often the truth is a single guy carrying a grocery bag while the other side is a line of tanks directed by a government. We're not fighting back on the same scale. It's not legal for my government to fight back in the same way. We do have the truth. That helps a ton, but it's not enough alone.

I don't know how to fix it. I don't have an easy solution. Knowing that you're interacting with real people with their actual approximate location (state/county) would help, as the Twitter posts labeled from Russian cities has shown. But that's not easy to execute, and may not do enough. 1/4

It's too easy to bury the truth when the opposition can create dozens of arguments against you. Or better yet, some of those can pretend to be on your side. The opposition isn't arguing against a strawman if they can get someone to argue that strawman on your behalf. They *can* create that. 1/?

Anonymous social media is too easy to manipulate. The idea behind the free exchange of ideas is that the better ideas and the truth should shine through. The issue is that, especially on social media, it's not a fair fight. On social media it's too easy to create dozens of "people". 1/?

Did you know it's possible to gish gallop the Judicial branch?

@dignitas.gg @disguisedgg.bsky.social While we're over on some alternative social media, there's a match thread over here. (non-profit org, no ads, etc.) lemmy.world/post/25004681

Americans voted for cheaper groceries. Less than a week on the job and Trump's already managed to get us into a trade war that will drive up the cost of coffee and be a gut-punch to American farmers and manufacturers, all because Colombia hurt his feelings.

Biden shares concerns about "the potential rise of a tech industrial complex" during his farewell address. "Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power... The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit," he said.

Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)

Not that it matters anymore, as I barely use Twitter and I have to think most who still do are seriously reconsidering it, but Elon Musk has just confirmed that if his fans (the only people paying to use Twitter) do not like you, his algorithm decimates your reach So it was never about free speech

I don’t know who made this but great job

www.tiktok.com/@grahamplast... Found through @leahmcelrath.bsky.social

Gotcha, girl. *Votes R*