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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

People are sheep.

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Brook Hines's avatar

YES!! i’ve been banging this drum for years! as a political consultant i’ve witnessed this problem for years, e.g. funders developed “software that mimics personas,” which obviously resulted in psyching themselves out in 2016 and 2024.

specifics here: https://www.brookhines.com/p/neoliberals-glamping-in-death-valley

the strategy starting in 2017 onwards was that funders wouldn’t fund their own media, instead they’d use fake social media “software that mimics personas” and celebrities to push out their raw messaging—they literally said they “had” to do this b/c “Russia,” and called for “informational hygiene” while at the same hiding all this electioneering b/c it’s not law to disclose.

Now they have the gall to whinge about needing “their own Joe Rogan,” which Kulinsky has obviously been auditioning for since 2024 😝

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