Here for local MN & MPLS Political Discourseβ’ There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate 3. I am not a crackpot
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Jurff (T_T) π retweeted
>likes from people who like everything will start counting less
~14 hours ago, π updated the algorithm (again).
There are a few new things worth noting:
β’ New "user debias" model: adjusts engagement based on how "generous" each viewer is
β’ Likes from people who like everything will start counting less
β’ Engagement from "picky" users who rarely interact will count more
β’ Engagement pods and "like for like" groups got weaker
β’ Some general search improvements
β’ Media (video and image) are now tracked as their own signals
What still matters most:
β’ Posting high-quality, original content
β’ Replies (5x) and quotes (5x) are weighted far above likes (0.5x)
β’ Shares via DM (5x) and copy link (20x) are the strongest positive signals
β’ A predicted follow is worth 4x
β’ Reports, mutes, blocks, and "not interested" are heavily negative
β’ Posts older than 48 hours drop out of For You
β’ Posting too much in a row decays your reach
TL;DR: regardless of algo changes, just focus on producing content that is unique to you.
Leftist's stay open to discourse Challenge Impossible:
A lot of the commentary on Piker from MPLS folks has skipped over any sort of objective measurement of what people think about him:
Maybe he's such a relative unknown that embracing or rejecting him won't move the needle..but it's very telling that progs in close races aren't
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leaping to do events with him! Abdul El-Sayed distanced himself from Hasan, as did Peggy about this very visit!
It seems pretty logical for people to avoid aligning themselves with scumbags. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
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The 3 interactions that this weird person has had w/ me have been to say I am friendly with Nazism, call me a Nazi, & to call me a pedophile. They are followed by a good number of local MPLS users.
@ThaCapm you seem unwell. Your existence online is toxic. You should log off.
Ben Shapiro started pushing for a pardon in Mar '25.
There was a moment of silence for Chauvin at the Republican Party State Convention in May '26 (along w/ calls for a new trial).
Demuth has given standard non-answers about this previously (in the wake of the moment of silence)
Does all this make it a gotcha question? Is it a gotcha question to ask a Republican who won the presidential election in 2020?
Also, this isn't actually what a "gotcha question" is in politics. Randomly quizzing her on foreign leaders or obscure policy trivia might be gotcha
I think this is a pretty terribly argued piece, primarily because of what it says (& doesn't say!) for reason #2:
The sum total of evidence marshalled to defend the proposition that Tafoya is moderate is....Pat says she is moderate. That's it! Bare assertion, nothing else.
π―- completely agree with my friend @PatGarofalo - if MN voters promote those that allowed us to be defrauded we are suckers, and we will never get the govt we deserve - accountability must be delivered by us - MN voters need to send a message right now
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There's no evaluation of her record (what record??), no weighing of her staked out positions on hot-button issues, no grappling with anything she has said or done.
Pat's entire argument is: She's a moderate guys, trust me.
The same section continues with more bare assertion:
It's hard to have conversations with leftists because they just spend all day in a rigid, strictly-policed epistemic bubble of discourse.
I don't know if it's the "everyone is twelve now" theory at work, or if they're all bots, but it makes it v. challenging to engage with them.
Doesn't matter to Empty Cars! They've got an ideological axe to grind, which means it's okay for them to:
1. Not respond to Sean's actual point
2. Bring up unrelated attack lines
3. Pretend a new bill (CORCA) is the ultimate litmus test for deciding if a pol supports ICE
Leftists* not spread weird lies about their ideological enemies Challenge (Impossible)
*Most of these folk are probably bots, but if they aren't they definitely need to touch grass.
