this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
138 points (99.3% liked)

politics

22668 readers
159 users here now

Protests, dual power, and even electoralism.

Labour and union posts go to The Labour Community.

Take any slop posts to the slop trough

Main is good for shitposting.

Do not post direct links to reactionary sites.

Off topic posts will be removed.

Follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember we're all comrades here.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Democrats have blown millions of dollars on efforts to appeal to “American Men,” who turned to President Donald Trump in droves on election day, in the hopes of winning back the working class, according to a report.

Democrats have spent $20 million on their efforts, with donors and strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms brainstorming how to convince working-class men to return to the party, according to a New York Times report.

The plan, code-named SAM, or “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan,” promises to use the funds to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces,” according to the report.

As the Times described it, the reports “can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places.”

The effort also recommends Democrats buy advertisements in video games, among other things, the Times reported.

Imagine finishing an online Match or beating a boss and getting this cutscene

"flattened-bernie"im once asking for your financial support"

“Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone,” the plan urges.

Democrats have “lost credibility by being seen as alien on cultural issues,” McCrary added.

the-democrat "we gotta get more racist"

by hueoops on twiteer

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have to imagine "spending millions" for them isn't the same as "spending millions" for us. For us, you spend the money and get a product and in so doing no longer have the money. For them, when they first have the money, it's the democratic party's money, but they personally want the money. Therefore they have to spend it on consulting themselves and their friends for putting ads in video games (an agency that they and their friends probably run) and still being racist (a pastime). Then the donations cease to be cookies in the cookie jar and cookies in their hands, as it were. That's when they spend it on renovating summer homes (for airbnb), some kind of slop that's covered in gold leaf, and a big useless bland green lawn.

Why don't they just use their AIPAC money and pre-cognition stocks to do that? Why didn't Van Gogh just ask ChatGPT to make a Ghibli style picture of the night sky? The love of the game.

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Why don't they just use their AIPAC money and pre-cognition stocks to do that? Why didn't Van Gogh just ask ChatGPT to make a ghibli style picture of the night sky? The love of the game.

I dont think its love of the game but to (pretend to) show people they are doing something, otherwise those donos will dry up. Of course what they are doing is mostly bullshit and like you said paying to consult themselves.