Re: Google & Apple maps changed the name of a large indentation of the Atlantic coastline

On 2025-02-13 10:45, Abandoned Trolley wrote:

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On 13/02/2025 10:38, Java Jive wrote:

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On 2025-02-13 00:56, micky wrote:

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In 4 years or when the idiot dies, whichever comes first, we in the US
can rid of all this nonsense.

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That's what the rest of the world hoped in 2020, but your voting population was stupid enough to vote him in twice, so, even if the US Constitution turns out to be strong enough to thwart his attempts to Putinise it and make himself POTUS for life  -  as US citizens are fond of maintaining but seen from the outside seems frighteningly uncertain -    what's to stop them voting in another narcissistic wrecking ball of an idiot?

 Call me a cynical old git if you like, but I suspect that this problem might go away just as soon as the Democrats realise that the American electorate dont like women or blacks (or maybe I mean Blacks ?)

Substitute "social media influencers" for "American electorate" and I think you'd be nearer the truth.
Kamala Harris seemed a pretty good candidate to me, at any rate way better than Trump, though that's a very low standard to have to beat, and nearly all the polls had her leading by small margins right up to the vote, but Trump won *easily*.  Why?  A sizeable chunk of the electorate now don't watch main-stream media at all, and also tend not to be sampled by standard polling methods, and thus didn't contribute to the picture in the run up to the election, but of course their actual votes still count just the same as everyone else's.
They get all their so-called 'news' from social media influencers like Musk and Josh Rogan (if I recall his name correctly) who have never had any journalistic training, see no need to be impartial, etc  -  on the contrary, the more extreme the views voiced on their channels, the more controversy they whip up, the more the algorithms suggest their channels to punters, so the better their ratings.  Hence they regularly regurgitate Russian propaganda, while Musk openly biased the Twitter algorithm towards Trump, and Josh Rogan wouldn't agree to travel to interview Kamala Harris  -  he wanted her to come to him, which to someone of my generation seems like the tail trying to wag the dog, but we all know the result.
What I think that result proves  -  as did 2016 where Trump had senior people from the three main social media companies working out of his campaign HQ and won, and 2020 where social media largely ditched him and he lost  -  that you can't win a modern election with out winning the social media campaign.  However bigoted, unreasonable, and self-serving they are, you have to engage with these narcissists on their own ground and at very least appear reasonable and competent, hopefully also thereby showing them up starkly by contrast for their lack of such leadership qualities.
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