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subterranean

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4. It's not hard to trick Republicans.

Reply to FelineOverlord (Original post)

Sat Dec 19, 2020, 01:51 PM

Dec 2020

Anyone with a keyboard can do it. Just make up some outrageous conspiracy about election fraud (or whatever the issue of the day is), post it on a fringe right-wing message board or Twitter, and it will quickly filter up to some far-right website like the Gateway Pundit, then to right-wing TV, and soon a right-wing politician will be repeating it as fact without verifying whether it's true. It's a pattern we've seen repeated numerous times in the last month and a half. I suspect the Russians have noticed this.

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4Chan Hoax Tricked Presidential Elector [View all] FelineOverlord Dec 2020 OP

I wouldn't assume the Elector was fooled. Mariana Dec 2020 #1

Time to flush 4chan to the internet sewer it came from. Initech Dec 2020 #2

Yeah. Fooled. Iggo Dec 2020 #3

It's not hard to trick Republicans. subterranean Dec 2020 #4