YoBuckStopsHereBiden video mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene speech hit more than 30M views in 12 hours
fiat_luxThere are an infinite amount of important events, happening all over the world at this very moment. Life-changing moments in time for billions of individual people, all happening simultaneously. A video reaching 30 million views is not one of them. And yet this is what reaches the top of the popular political news lists.
Jesus wept.
You have the same power to submit new posts that everyone else here has. Use it.
Posting content doesn't affect the sort of content that people get immediate gratification from. There are loads of posts all over the fediverse with important political news, but they're not what people enjoy their reaction to, so they're just not seen.
I have no problem with good news, or even just being amused at mockery of terrible opinions. But, if this is what gets our engagement then it's no wonder humanity are up shit creek without a paddle.
dismalnowThe world is a backward place, but you're overthinking it.
I don't think this post is more than poignant politicking that is refreshing to see.
Its popularity is mostly reflexive of the geography and demographic of the current users of the fediverse when it was posted - and the ease of a one-tap stamp of approval.
Just curious: Which article should we read instead?
reflective of geography and demographic
Yeah, I made an error. My interface called this community just "politics" and when I checked the instance I mistakenly assumed "[email protected]" was a global politics discussion, not US-specific. Other English-language news and politics communities are also dominated by US internal political links despite not being dedicated to that topic, so I didn't notice this one was intentional. I'll be more thorough in checking the sidebar in the future.
article you should read next
Well, even though I thought this place was for international stories, I'll stick with the community's theme to answer this.
The article on the first amendment lawsuit filed by Johnson and Johnson has potential huge consequences for US healthcare: https://lemmy.world/post/1734658
For happier news, the thread on Maine expanding abortion access: https://lemmy.world/post/1786031
And for one from the same OP in the same community, the guardian article on AI in politics is a decent summary of some of the problems the US election is up against: https://lemmy.world/post/1786031
you're overthinking it.
Probably, it wouldn't be the first time.
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