• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Yea, 100% everyone should be weary.

    We all know that groups like Cambridge analytical, heritage foundation, TPUSA and others are relentless with their online social media presence and actively work to shape pop culture with their views. Including making the left either look insane or distracting them enough too give their right wing views more access to the general public.

    You’d be crazy to not consider that the fringes are not targets. You should absolutely be critical of the fringes. Given that this and a few other posts here on Lemmy were posts that I originally saw on right wing spaces, I do believe it is suspect.

    Advertisers build profiles on demographics to better manipulate them. You better believe these groups have the left figured out. You can’t directly prove it but you sute as fuck can see the results with how much ground and engagement the left have lost in the past 10 years. They’ve went from having a very strong presence to people believing they’re putting cat litter in classrooms. You can believe it’s due to idiots on the right. But it’s as much the fault of idiots on the left.

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      14 hours ago

      Ok, well I’m going to assume that you’re a paid employee of George Soros here to suppress any sentiment to the left of the DNC.

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            11 hours ago

            You’re all only proving my point. You all sound like r/conservative right up to “no true conservative” bullshit they’re going through now.

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              9 hours ago

              Just calling everyone to your left a conservative without actually engaging with the ideas presented isn’t a very effective strategy for accomplishing whatever it is you want to.

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                7 hours ago

                Nobody has presented anything other than calling me a bot. The .ml instance is corrupted by something that stinks. I think most other instances rightly call it out for this. It’s clear just from the tone and rhetoric when the instance is a .ml just like when dealing with a trump supporter.

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                  6 hours ago

                  Nobody has presented anything other than calling me a bot.

                  You bloody hypocrite! You were the one who started with the bot/shill accusations!

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                  7 hours ago

                  This is clearly a leftist meme advocating people read Marx, and you’re here acting like communists are right-wingers. It’s bad-faith, and is what is getting you called out.

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                    3 hours ago

                    Yea? Give it time. This will be the next hill. Use the fringe left and far right to burn the constitution so trump can get whatever he wants even another term.