Jakub Goda
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Jakub Goda
@jakubgoda.bsky.social
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Democratic operatives and candidates need to stop being scared of their own shadows and internalize the notion that attention is good, that even negative attention might redound to their benefit and that the public is so easily distracted that no one is going to hold supposed gaffes against them
More broadly, I think we increasingly live in a postgaffe, even a postscandal society.
But because of how distracted and distractible the public has become, gaffes — or controversial and even offensive statements by candidates — do not matter the way they once did.
Politicians and campaign staff members of a certain generation live in fear of the gaffe, the moment when a politician says something awkward or wrong or offensive that comes to define who the person is.
No one checks your percentages — only your total numbers. You need to always be posting if you want a better chance of things going viral or at least ending up in the algorithmic slipstream that shoots it out to millions of eyeballs.
It’s not just how you campaign and which outlets you talk to, though. Successful campaigns must prioritize producing content. One thing successful content creators will tell you about excelling in the world of digital attention is that there’s no penalty for quantity.
This exact fear of things blowing up is what guided the communication strategy for much of the campaign as well. They were playing as if they had a lead when they didn’t.
In her new book, Ms. Harris confirms this general risk aversion, noting that her first choice for a vice-presidential nominee was Pete Buttigieg but that she feared putting a gay man on the ticket would backfire.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...
Opinion | Chris Hayes: The Democrats’ Main Problem Isn’t Their Message
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Dohodneme sa, ze zo zaciatku to bolo o dost slabsie ako teraz?:) Z tych prvotnych protestov media reportovali "tisice" ludi v NYC, takze z toho vychadza to moje porovnanie s BB, ale nejdem sa o tom sporit, ved
nemaju to ani presne spocitane.
Pred časom som tu písal, aké biedne je to v USA s protestami, že pri tých prvých prišlo proti Trumpovi v NYC menej ľudí ako u nás v Banskej Bystrici.

No. Trošičku sa to zlepšilo! 👏🫶

Sobotňajšie demonštrácie proti Trumpovi boli zrejme najväčšou jednodňovou protestnou akciou v USA od roku 1970.
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
To bude vskutku zaujímavé, ako toto raz dopadne
Optimist's view:

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic. We recoil from what feels fake. That’s why human creativity matters,” said Lee. “AI doesn’t dream. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t make art. It aggregates it.”

www.theverge.com/news/797540/...
DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’
“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”
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A team of researchers from New Zealand looked at headlines from 47 American publications. They found that between 2000 and 2019, the share of headlines meant to evoke anger more than doubled. The prevalence of headlines meant to evoke fear rose by 150 percent.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Opinion | The Era of Dark Passions
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Ved ok, to je aspoň pomenovanie nejakej alternatívy. Len treba rátať, že: 1. Hlas nebude chcieť, 2. Hlas sa nedostane.