Spotify will “pause” political ads in 2020

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3 hours ago, Halsey said:

I strongly disagree with this. All it will do is reduce name recognition of candidates and reduce voter turnout since it will decrease the outreach to young/diverse voters.

 

The extreme left’s ideas are going to end up getting this election handed to Trump. We need intense ads EVERYWHERE & we need all the money we can get from big donors in order to beat the political machine that has become Trumps fortune. All this does is disadvantage us. Stupid stupid stupid

Trust me annoying political ads make people even less interested in voting.

It's stupid anyway. You can't convince a voter to vote for you in 30s, unless it's going to be some inflated false campaign promises.

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8 hours ago, ItsTommyBitch said:

fixed!  

In all seriousness, I know that this is a thing, but I said "... is a viable political strategy for the Democratic Party in 2019" because while being politically incorrect is a charming trait for some Republicans and Independents, it does NOT play well with the Democratic Base/Electorate. Furthermore, the "far left" in discussion tends to be whatever group people even a step to the right want to call it, even though in regards to the actual political spectrum it refers specifically to Anarchists and Communists (and Socialists of some varieties). These aren't the "Social Justice Warrior, identity politics is God" people, that's mostly liberals and neoliberals, so the critique isn't even appropriate in the first place  

Clearly you live in a bubble bc the majority of independent voters in swing states hate political correctness and refuse to vote for Democrats bc they feel they are weak “snowflake” leadership (to put it in their terms). We need an unapologetic leader who will go after Trump. Hillary even admitted she regrets not being feistier in the 2016 debates.

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7 hours ago, Chickens in Malibu said:

Trust me annoying political ads make people even less interested in voting.

It's stupid anyway. You can't convince a voter to vote for you in 30s, unless it's going to be some inflated false campaign promises.

Campaigj ads are fundamentally helpful to lesser known candidates. For example, my father didn’t know who Tom Steyer, Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang were until he saw commercials by them on TV and YouTube. Those ads caused him to recognize their name, and actually research them. He actually likes Andrew Yang now and it’s bc he saw ads and became intrigued. If he hadn’t seen those, he would think Warren and Biden were his only options.

 

It may not entirely determine a voter, but it helps candidates gain exposure. Obama’s rise came in part bc of his campaign’s usage of digital advertisement and social media. Their are lots of political science books on it. He redefined the way campaigns operated through the Internet. 

 

Going back to no ads is regressive, not progressive. I’m fine with them being regulated so false information isn’t published, by ending them outrightly is censorship.

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2 hours ago, Halsey said:

Clearly you live in a bubble bc the majority of independent voters in swing states hate political correctness and refuse to vote for Democrats bc they feel they are weak “snowflake” leadership (to put it in their terms). We need an unapologetic leader who will go after Trump. Hillary even admitted she regrets not being feistier in the 2016 debates.

Maybe read my post first?

"...while being politically incorrect is a charming trait for some Republicans and Independents,  it does NOT play well with the Democratic Base/Electorate." It's not a complex point, Dem's cant nominate someone who is blatantly racist, sexist, etc. and expect to win the Democratic base. It's a different story in the general.

Anyway, this isn't a big deal to me because Independents love Bernie Sanders who WILL go after Trump, easily  

But your original post was quite misguided in that Spotify pausing political ads is not a "PC" move in the first place/