Have you seen @AARTMKE's newest billboard in Milwaukee? What are your thoughts on how YOUR city resources are spent? Demand participatory budgeting to get decision-making power over these public funds!

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  • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Everyone is like Ross Perot was in 1992, expecting the public to understand "data" and that "longer lines on graphs mean bigger numbers".

    For younger people, Perot bought these half hour blocks of time and ran ads where he stood there with an easel full of pie charts, graphs and charts explaining why NAFTA sucked and how his toaster was spying on him.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I understand that the American working class is systematically and deliberately deprived of education, but I don't think the average pedestrian, bicyclist, or even a vehicle waiting at a light is going to fail to understand a bar graph, especially one that is color coded and has the numbers next to each bar.

      • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I was trying to wryly comment that most political messaging acts like they can't read a bar graph, or just respond better to emotional bullshit.