Black Voters in This City Could Determine 2024. And It’s Not Looking Good for Biden.
Black Voters in This City Could Determine 2024. And It’s Not Looking Good for Biden.
The Biden campaign is increasingly worried about a group that could determine an important chunk of Electoral College votes.
Weren't you banned for posting negative articles about Biden?
More specifically, for confirming that a story being negative about Biden was the main criteria they were using to select stories to post, that they wanted to select and post bad stories about Biden specifically.
I'm actually not convinced that ozma's participation here is actually hurting Biden, just because it's so blatant and has actually promoted on Lemmy the narrative "most criticism of Biden is made up from people trying to hurt him for political reasons, and here are a bunch of rebuttals to it" much more than it has promoted the face value narrative "Biden is bad and everyone thinks so."
I actually think what is a lot more harmful, is the flood of users who come from nowhere to post quick "Hey we all agree Biden hurt black voters and they shouldn't vote for him" comments (or whatever) on any story having anything to do with him, to create a sort of false impression of consensus. ozma's obvious enough with what he's doing that people can pretty clearly see it. The fake accounts are harder to spot (enough so that maybe I sound crazy from saying I think that's what's going on). So like e.g. one place where you can see it really clearly is in the beehaw politics subs -- most stories just get votes, and maybe like a couple of comments, but then anything Biden related gets this big dogpile of random accounts coming in to say more or less the exact same narrative about how he's bad for some particular reason. To me it is fairly clear that it's not just an organic population of people who care about Biden and Biden only and no other area of politics and mostly happen to have exactly the same opinion about him.
(And also, I don't think that confirming specifically that the reason you're posting a clearly bad faith flood of artificially slanted articles, is exactly what it clearly is, should be the bar for getting banned. I have no idea what the actual criteria should be, because it seems like it doesn't have an easy answer, but I don't think the bar for banning someone should be their self-described intent.)
Temp 3 day ban. I read the pinned post. I've posted plenty of other news articles that aren't about Biden or Trump. I finally post news about latest polling that doesn't paint Biden in a positive light and people lose their minds.
Look at the article and poll data objectively.
Poll data:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/?ex_cid=abcpromo
Looks like they're in a tie and Biden is trending upward, while Trump is trending downward.
You gotta figure the RNC isn't 100% idiots. There is, I assume, a reason they picked Milwaulkee for the convention
I mean, they're not 100% idiots but sometimes it's easy to court voters...
Trump courts rappers as surrogates for his campaign to win more voters of color
From Lil Wayne to Sexyy Red, Trump is getting support from a bevy of rappers as he seeks to court young, Black voters.
Sadly, this will sway some voters.
Stop telling Black voters you're with them and you support them and actually do things to improve lives.
Manufacturing jobs, climate change, growth in unions
IDK maybe it's an unimpressively short list but each one fits the brief in pretty large-scale fashion
The growth in 10th percentile wages is definitely going to disproportionately benefit black familes
To look specifically at the racial dimension, here's an overall graph of median income broken down by race. It's kind of not ideal that it cuts off before showing 2023, but enough that you can see that in recent years they're squeezing together (racial income inequality going down) for the first time in quite a while -- not like income at the top going down is a real great thing, but that is partly the result of Biden's deliberate policy decision to prioritize keeping employment high over keeping inflation low, so that the pain of the Covid recovery is shared among all segments of society instead of disproportionately focused on the most vulnerable as I think most US politicians would have done.
I got indicted a second time and a third time and a fourth time, and a lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against
Donald Trump
I’ve said this and I say it openly and not a lot of people dispute it: I’ve done more for Black Americans than anybody with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln. Nobody has even been close.
Donald Trump
You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?
Donald Trump
He's such an idiot.