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All I'm saying is this can't be working for them. There is no way that this specific aspect of their videos is actually proving beneficial to their numbers in any way, shape, or form, I refuse to believe it. In this "give me what I want now or I'll find it somewhere else" culture? Come on.

All you have to do is show a short clip from whatever the clickbait happens to be, then you can go through your schpiel and eventually show the full thing -- but if I can't even see what you've promised, and I'm waiting 5-6 minutes to hear or see anything about it, I'm going to get annoyed.

And look, I'm a leftist and overall I value what these two do -- we're on the same side here -- but this kind of content creation isn't natural, it doesn't flow well, and it feels/appears just as carefully crafted to accomplish a specific goal as it almost certainly is. It feels phony.

The only effect is that now I'm searching through your videos to find the specific content I want from them and ignoring the rest of it.

You're not convincing me to stay engaged on your video by making me wait for the entree. I would not be surprised if your analytics show this to be the case.

Generally speaking, if you don't show people the content you promised immediately, they will click off the video and they might even be less likely to trust you as a source.

Forcing them to wade through a bunch of other news first before getting to the point just makes people want to stop watching.

I think what annoys me the most about Youtube Channels like @adammockler.com or @lukebeasley.bsky.social is that they seem to be following the same flawed clickbait playbook.

The problem isn't the clickbait, it's their crass attempts to keep people engaged for 5 min before showing the clickbait.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

IIRC, this is the guy who went on vacation to see Hitler's home. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment:

He agrees ICE is a terror organization:

"ICE goes masked for a single reason- to terrorize Americans into quiescence"

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'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

“Thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Fix your brain and heart

People who are sane: "2+2 = 4, how can I tell you anything else?"

Conservatives: "Sometimes it equals 3, sometimes it equals 5, it's all a matter of Donald Trump's perspective on any given day."

If you are even for one second getting libbed up about Gavin Newsom, who buddies up with the likes of Charlie Kirk and is in this fight for his own political ambitions, who almost assuredly will change nothing if elected president, I beg of you to look deeper into the guy and his actual beliefs.

Knock it off, sincerely someone who is tired of being called the boy who cried wolf because of disingenuous content creators like you.

You're not changing anything for the better with videos like these, you're just trying to make as much money as you can off a click bait topic and taking advantage of people who actually want to know what is going on in this fascist, oligarchic country while you do it.

You aren't going to convince people to watch your content by using this kind of stupid click bait. Trump supporters and moderates already assume the left is trying to trick them, you don't help yourself by creating obvious clickbait which is ultimately the exact thing they mean by "fake news."

Like I'm sorry, I'm getting so annoyed with this click bait. Of course I want to know if Trump is experiencing cognitive decline, but every f***ing video on this topic is like "YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS SHOCKING PROOF" and then you watch it and it's just Trump being a regular dumb ass.

When is someone going to tell people like @adammockler.com and @lukepbeasley.bsky.social‬ that running this "cognitive decline" nonsense is not going to help their case against Trump, because it's so obviously a stretch that even people on the left like myself would reasonably question your logic.

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I've got bad news for conservatives regarding Rubio. No reason to point this out now, but it will be relevant in the future.

I firmly and truly believe that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a Nazi.

Thank goodness that in the United States of America, I still have the freedom to profess my beliefs because of the rights granted to me by the first amendment to the Constitution.

I also believe Nazis do not belong here.

YouTube video by TheWizard431 Scrooged - Ghost of Christmas Future

I always thought this scene from Scrooged depicted a change in character and personality that was simply too stark to be possible.

Then I watched the downfall of Ana Kasparian.

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Regarding the BBB and the potential loss of hundreds of rural hospitals, I'd just like to remind everyone of the year 2020, when hospitals in America were already stretched thin trying to provide enough beds for covid patients.

If another pandemic hits now, we will not be able to handle it.

I will say, one thing I personally did was to keep my thoughts off Twitter, because as OP and many others have noted, it's a toxic and dangerous place for trans people and any comment can be used to spread hate even if not intended.

I don't support those smear campaigns, I agree with you on that. I'm just saying, we shouldn't try to quiet all criticism here, because some criticism is warranted.

Obviously unreasonable and outrageous expectations of perfection from throughout their lives is not acceptable.

This, so much this.

Not all criticism of trans people is bad, especially if you're purely criticizing their political takes and not their identity or right to exist.

My thoughts on this are that I don't think I'm going to trust her political views from now on. I don't think that's cancellation.

Another way to write "Anyone who supports a two-state solution is a Zionist" would be to say "Anyone who supports manifest destiny is a colonizer." 😉

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