Summary

President Joe Bidenā€™s economic achievementsā€”lowering inflation, reducing gas prices, creating jobs, and boosting manufacturingā€”are largely unrecognized by the public, despite his successes.

His tenure saw landmark legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and major infrastructure investments.

However, Bidenā€™s approval ratings remain low, attributed to inflation backlash, weak communication, and a media landscape prone to misinformation.

Democrats face a ā€œpropaganda problemā€ rather than a policy failure, with many voters likely to credit incoming President Trump for Bidenā€™s accomplishments due to partisan messaging and social media dynamics.

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    14 days ago

    And we thought the internet would solve or at least help this. Little did we knowā€¦

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      I feel like itā€™s simply widened the divide that was already present. There have always been people that care and people that donā€™t but now the people that care have the resources to do something about it and the people that donā€™t have easy access to that which reinforces their lack of caring.

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        Excellent summary of the internetā€™s potential for both help and harm. At this point, Iā€™m not convinced the net result isnā€™t negative.

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      Hey man, we can post slurs online while taking a shit or look at porn any time. What else would we use the internet for?

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      Yep. I remember those days. I remember hearing Douglas Rushkoff [1] on a podcast or something about how he and others around his same age were seeing the dawn of the (privatized) Internet along with the flourishing of the rave scene, and so on and thought it had all this promise and it gave me such a huge amount of nostalgia.

      Instead, we have things like Youtube influencers peddling some of the very worst things youā€™d want kids to watch and algorithms that push it to them.

      [1] Jaron Lanier has written pretty well about some of the same aspects.