Conservative dominance of digital platforms is driven by billionaire backing that the left hasn't matched.
      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        23 days ago

        Righteous hatred vs fear based hatred. It’s the difference between a John Brown and a Klansman, both hated but the type of hate was different.

  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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    23 days ago

    Sort of an opposite approach to the Goebbels method. Instead of top down control, allow various flavors of hate to vomit their message and see what resonates. It worked, because now you’ve got hate groups and individuals who might otherwise not be on exactly the same page as their fellow bigots onboard for the common cause, sometimes in the face of their own self-interest or contrary to what their own “beliefs” should push for (ie Latinos for Trump, Zionist neo-Nazis). They didn’t have to indoctrinate people into hate, they just had to make sure haters knew they were all welcome. And most of the haters will never get what they want, their personal desires are irrelevant. They’ll get deported, ground under, discarded like Noem and Bondi, or driven into poverty by the people they enabled because whatever their personal goals, all that mattered was their emotions were a path to power.

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 days ago

      I see it more like a new frontier opened up and everybody gathered their supplies and such and headed west.

      It was a race to be the first one to set camp and claim land. End of the day it was a numbers game. The left didn’t put up the numbers and in some cases they worked against themselves. This generation saw a new frontier and went “bah” but now those frontiers are where young men and women are getting their information, beliefs and ideas from. They will one day be the next general making decisions. How long until MAGA looks plain Jane compared to the people being raised today