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In reply to the discussion: Who would have believed that millions could gobble up so much bullshit? [View all]chowder66
(9,104 posts)20. I personally feel like social media has had a big part in this as well.
Like finds like. Once they find each other they get validated in their hatred and rancor. The numbers grow and they become the "Tea Party" ,"Qanon", etc. The tinder was there but every new connection is fuel that stokes the fire.
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Who would have believed that millions could gobble up so much bullshit? [View all]
Cyrano
Jul 2020
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1500 coordinated unchallenged radio stations, invisible to dems and city-dwelling media and
certainot
Jul 2020
#27
It's an old playbook, and it can't be denied that he knows it, cover to cover
A HERETIC I AM
Jul 2020
#10
+1, what anti terrorism agents do with ISIS recruits is to mock their logic with short quips ...
uponit7771
Jul 2020
#13
Well put, and I think that's been the real question at least since Bush v Gore.
0nirevets
Jul 2020
#31
A complex question worth of two Nobel prize. One shot is the symbiosis with faux news.
TrumpCleaner
Jul 2020
#37
YouTube comment: "Democrats are getting everything they want and it's still not enough"
Awsi Dooger
Jul 2020
#42