This isn't true. Tanks role in doctrine has changed. How the US would fight with drones on the field is completely different than how Ukraine or Russia are fighting.
AnalogNotDigital
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Republicans hate my state. I welcome their hatred.
Honestly, I've had this conversation with a lot of people!
I think tough love is the answer. People respect an actual honest gut punch.
Tough love with motivation to be better. That's what I would do. People want to look for something, to hope for something. They want to be part of a 'thing' that gives them meaning and a reason to get out of bed in the morning. For a lot of people that is what MAGA is. It's a brilliant bit of propaganda from a political science perspective.
The thing that the people behind maga forget is that positive always beats negative for people. If the democrats came out with a 'elbows up' campaign to drive engagement, inform voters, and have an Obama 08 style organization behind it. Dems would sweep elections left right and center across the country.
The issue, is the democrats shunned technology after that 08 Obama win. Obama built up a massive online apparatus to win the election then the party tossed it aside. The republicans embraced the digital age and have moved their propaganda networks online, and the democrats did nothing to counter it.
There are some things that give the Rs and advantage such as gish gallop and stuff like that, but again, tough love 'everything that man said is bullshit, your honor' type discourse wins out. They just don't want to get their hands dirty, and they don't want to fund people that do for some reason.
In short, you don't need to convince people to follow a billion different decrees. You give them a simple branding (Hope from 08. Where do you think all the MAGA merch idea came from? Those Hope shirts), direction, and figureheads.
Branding is easy, for me I'd pick something like Together. Direction? Focus on things people agree on and build out policy from those tentpoles. 'Family? We all love family. Here's how we're helping YOUR family with X policies.' Figureheads. Dems have TONS of super qualified women that are killing it. We need some fucking white bread dudes like Walz as well to be pushing these things (there are a few they just need more media around them).
From a dev standpoint, if it were me I'd create an app to push these things, make it social for people, and then gamify engagement by making it a 'game' to be informed of what's happening in your area and in the country at large. Getting people informed is not hard and doesn't take a lot of time, it requires newer styles of outreach that haven't been done before. At least in my mind!
Thanks for the conversation on this btw, It's refreshing! <3
You realize people want figureheads to look up to and follow, right?
That's why trump is so fucking popular with morons. He talks to them, and tells them SOMETHING that they can get behind.
Yes. And who is on the left saying 'hey you should act this fucking way instead of these douche canoes?'
That's my point.
Soooo screaming loudly on the internet and doing nothing?
No you mistake my point I'm saying that 'the left' doesn't have as many figurehead people online in those spaces to call out the people like Tate and Miller.
This.
None of these leftists have done shit. They just shit talk on the internet, and pretend that sitting out is doing something worthwhile.
They don't want that though, they are turning to fucking news like Steven Miller and Andrew Tate. Because they 'look like them' and those guys are total assholes with perceived power.
This is one are where progressives and liberals have completely failed. There are zero male role models in progressive/leftist politics that aren't women that are easily identifiable.
And when you bring this up in those circles you get talked down to.
I totally see why most average men want to be republicans. That party allows you to be a man (a toxic version of a man, but none the less a man).
Hey all of you guys who stayed home. This is on you.
Yep. Literally without fail.
The party that would absolutely welcome their views into the party they refuse to participate, while also complaining that said party doesn't try and court them.
Like, you don't get courted with policy and with seats in congress if you don't show up. It's the height of delusion and entitlement.
Current US doctrine relies on controlling the skies. Still right now there's no credible threat to US air dominance. If the US has air dominance, drones in their current form are a bug attacking a tractor. Look up videos on how the US air campaign worked during Gulf War 1 and see the sheer number of assets that were on station for months waiting for the order to attack. Any enemy would be utterly exhausted by the time any attack started and the force and speed of violence would keep drones down to local threats.
That's also not counting any drone countermeasures the US currently has and could mass deploy.
I think the US use of expensive drones is just different to what we're seeing in Ukraine. They're fitting into a different space than FPV drones, which isn't bad, it's just different.