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LizBeth

(11,023 posts)
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 03:56 PM Nov 2024

Processing this, Trump seems to have come across social media kinda like an "influencer"

which I had no clue what it was until like a couple yrs ago. These people are powerful and a powerful influence on so much of our nations mind. They don't stay up late scrolling, scrolling, reading about reality. And so much of the culture under about 40 now are so brainwashed thru this mentality and the do not watch news. And people feed them, an appetite of it. And further, if they see you tend to one conversation, they will throw you into the red, rw crowd and that is what you consume all fuggin day and into that night. Then throw in Musk.

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Mossfern

(3,436 posts)
2. Influencers!
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 04:04 PM
Nov 2024

A few years ago a friend proudly bragged that his daughter was hired by a PR firm to manage "influencers."
It took all of my self control not to go off on him about this phenomenon. Influencers are basically celebrities who have little or no knowledge about issues not related to their talents, but are revered as experts in all things because they are popular....kinda like a high school prom king or queen.

Being basically a nerd myself, I was acutely aware of how dangerous this trend would be years ago.
But because of my nerdiness no one listened to me.

LizBeth

(11,023 posts)
3. No idea until a couple yrs ago. Now I watch a lot. It is all just this. The whole "man is the leader"
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 04:19 PM
Nov 2024

is HUGE huge from both the young women right along with the man. Pay for everythinng, provider.... and protect from teh scary. So fucked up and HUGE.

My almost 30 yr old son is clueless. He is smart, educated, no interest. Scorns them. He says to me, no one says that shit. No one is asking body count. But still.... he has NO clue. That whole your body, our choice went millions in hours. then grows. After being in it myself, wow. I am scrolling out 2am too. lol.

LizBeth

(11,023 posts)
5. Why? Why do I watch? Cause I did not understand it before and its power.
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 04:48 PM
Nov 2024

Because you can see the wave prior to it hitting you upside the head. It helps you understand a powerful collective culture. Lots of reasons. It is homed in to what I like and I get a lot of really cool, liberal feminist conversations. But there is a whole other world and explains to me the power of them seeing so different than me when I think this is such a duh.

It is huge. That is what my whole post is about. Would you rather travel it unaware or aware? I prefer to understand this because I have a fascination in communicating and connecting and simply understanding. Bottom line my dude, I like people and they make me think. Had a gummy, could probably keep going but talking to like minds about the position we are in. What I have seen from Dems jsut the last 24 yrs, ..... So gonna jump in elsewhere .

LizBeth

(11,023 posts)
11. Yes and I think it is a conversation to have now, personally seeing how people spend
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 05:54 PM
Nov 2024

massive hours a day, 7 days a week.

JI7

(91,269 posts)
7. It wasn't just Trump itself. It was others and pushed the anti transgender agenda
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 05:21 PM
Nov 2024

they would pick out some story in the news of a transgender woman and report like it was the biggest threat to women and conservative families. And this was a huge thing among muslims alsoi.

There are also some black people that heavily focus on bad things black people do and they get a huge number of views. There are also conservative women that are attacking feminists and how males are victims.

LizBeth

(11,023 posts)
8. Absolutely. Yes yes yes. It wasnt even Trumper per say....
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 05:26 PM
Nov 2024

it is the whole agenda of project? 2025? This whole hate thing, and then the "lifestyle" type thing so strong with a whole lot of stupid and the whole thing. To hear what the rw or non discerning are being fed lets me understand why the 40 and under so went to Trump. I mean it could be something as simply as pissed off football people pissed at both Swift cause powerful successful woman and Chiefs cause they are kick ass. I mean it is EVERYWHERE. You should jump into those conversations. It is all meme stupid rw bullshit. This is what people are bombarded with.

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