• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Yeah. Take a look at common social media. It’s literally flooded again with right-wing BS justifying trump’s actions. Outright lies made over and over. There’s no way these aren’t paid troll farms doing this. The volume is overwhelming.

    • Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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      This is why Facebook banned me. I relentlessly reported people for hate speech and then started telling people that Jesus will likely spit them out when they go to heaven. They got triggered and mass reported my comments. Facebook is a shit hole of Ai accounts posting psychotic bullshit.

      Just get off the service. Back up your pictures. Everything will be better once you’re gone.

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    I don’t remember when I first heard about Trump, but when I started reading articles about him and seeing videos of him speaking in 2010 (such a long time ago…) I came to a conclusion very quickly that he was a fool and not to be taken seriously. Even on cracked.com (if those articles even still exist on their site!) back in the day he was universally reviled. The guy is just a criminal, pure and simple. He isn’t even a particularly smart criminal. The one thing I had to really come to a sobering conclusion is that being ‘smart’ and being ‘successful’ are two entirely different things… also the world is absolutely full of irredeemable jackasses, a fact I should have come to the conclusion to as a young child, but I didn’t until much later.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yes. The way this always works is through useful idiots. There’s a core group that knows it’s bullshit, but they want to use it to pursue some other agenda. They then filter talking points to their media contacts. Those people may or may not believe it, but their paycheck depends on convincing masses of people that it’s true.

      The random MAGA guy on a Facebook post? He probably believes it. He’s two degrees removed from the people who don’t. The Enlightened Centrist who tries to mix both sides into a resemblance of an ideology is three degrees removed.

      This is also why the only “journalism” outlets that aren’t financially struggling are conservative podcasters and YouTubers.