237 points

There absolutely no way this isn’t an ad for upvote buying services lol this is so insane and transparent and the worst part is it’ll work

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Have to respect someone getting in on grifting conservatives without even endorsing their views in the process.

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Honestly, there’s and endless sea of grift attempts going on at all times. You don’t think people selling fake gold Trump coins, etc give one damn about his politics, do you? They’re just trying to wring every penny out of the die hards

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Man, the cash I could make with flexible ethics.

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Last presidential election here in Brazil there were some some traffic light salesman selling towels with the presidential candidates. And they walked around with a score board showing which one had sold more. And they sold a lot more because people didn’t want to see their beloved candidate on the losing side.

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In this case they do very much help those views though. Either they create the appearance of public appeal, which draws more people to these views, or they manage to disrupt spaces that formerly fostered a different political culture.

If we look at Twitter we see the second aspect particularly strongly.

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19 points

Keen observation skills. I wouldn’t have caught on, I’m sad to say.

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9 points

How to milk the conservatives.

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Thats exactly what I believe. I know there is no limits to stupidity, but don’t you use bots to make it seem legit? Who would go around saying, “hey guys we’re losing. We should use BOTS. We should buy BOTS ACCOUNT AND UPVOTES from BOTSFORSALE.org

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5 points

The all caps gave it away

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4 points

It screams Steve Bannon.

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I mean, it’s an ad but it’s also thought-provoking and interesting. Before now we all knew what was happening we just didn’t know the details also kind of interesting to see proof it’s a conversation starter. I think I would have preferred it if the author would have redacted the URL though.

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“It is unambiguous clear that our message is toxic and the majority of people reject our ideology and us with it. Therefore, the most logical solution is to create an artificial narrative via manipulation and vote-buying that makes it appear that people like us.” -these people probably

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Well, it worked with the news.

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It also worked with Reddit. The Palestine discourse there is utterly repulsive and gleefully genocidal.

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22 points

Is it really that bad? I haven’t been on Reddit in over a year.

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19 points

Capitalism™

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That’s what they’ve been doing for decades. And unfortunately they’ve been very successful at it.

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8 points

Or… I run a reddit botnet, and Christmas is coming up. What’s the easiest group of rubes to fleece?

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108 points

“Our opinions are wildly unpopular to the point where even if a bunch of us showed up we’d struggle to make a difference so we’re gunna need to buy upvotes!”

Like…c’mon.

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42 points

Have you seen the content there?

Yeah they’re gonna need lots of money to get any attention

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57 points

Oh wow, so it’s basically a content farm for /r/TheRightCantMeme

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FYI unfortunately that sub got taken over by pro-russia and pro-ccp tankies.

One of the mod of the sub is also a hexbear mod.

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11 points

Fuckin’ yikes.

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10 points

Dumb enough to fall for a Facebook lie about Tim Walz, but smart enough to use a crappy image editor?

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No, the Russians already provided the image with the lie

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The right may not have good ideas, organizational skills, charm, ethics, understanding of economics, history, or politics, or strength in numbers, but they do have the one thing more important than all of these.

Money!

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I’d argue they do have organizational skills and and strength in numbers. Don’t underestimate that.

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You don’t get and keep money without some of these skills though.

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Eric Trump says “what?!”

And this after his father would have made 8 times more money by simply leaving it in the bank than all of his variety of hotel and Sharper Image steak sales businesses - he’s literally the only one I’ve ever heard of who managed to lose money running a casino!

“The system” is what makes wealth, not individual people these days. Obviously not solely, but the above example shows how it is the primary determination factor.

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70 points

Gasp, you all surely don’t believe that conservatives would ever engage in voter manipulation tactics… r-r-right!?

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This is what they do in real life too though. They know the US is mostly liberal (based on the popular vote) so they have to abuse money and historical power to manipulate the votes into their favor.

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“Ignore morality and get shit done”, aka The Ends Justify The Means

- God or something, probably?

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