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drm604

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13. It may be that conservative voters are easier to manipulate.

Reply to BruceWane (Reply #10)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 12:21 PM

Feb 2017

But maybe not. Could it be the other way around? Could it be instead that the most easily manipulated are conservative simply because they've been manipulated to be that way?

Could this same malleable group be educated as to what really are their best interests?

If they're driven by fear, could they be led to fear the real enemies; exploitive employers, job loss, poverty, lack of health care, loss of retirement support, loss of rights, pollution, etc.?

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The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine [View all] drm604 Feb 2017 OP

Steve Bannon is on the board of Cambridge Analytics flamingdem Feb 2017 #1

Very scary. drm604 Feb 2017 #2

Not that scary. It's a technique of disseminating messages. It's not going away. Democrats need KittyWampus Feb 2017 #6

It is scary. drm604 Feb 2017 #9

No interest in this? drm604 Feb 2017 #3

Damn. Tactical Peek Feb 2017 #4

Kick drm604 Feb 2017 #5

If you think the DNC isn't also doing this then dagnuguy Feb 2017 #7

Then why did they lose? drm604 Feb 2017 #8

They've lost because the system is antidemocratic.... eniwetok Feb 2017 #12

I understand all that, but those things just make this kind of manipulation easier. drm604 Feb 2017 #14

Sure the GOP will use every trick in the book.... eniwetok Feb 2017 #16

I should add.... eniwetok Feb 2017 #17

The DNC may want to........ BruceWane Feb 2017 #10

It may be that conservative voters are easier to manipulate. drm604 Feb 2017 #13

except a piece on Cambridge Analytics pointed to data finding Haitian immigrants and targeting them KittyWampus Feb 2017 #15

The DNC has no long term goals... the Right does. eniwetok Feb 2017 #11

Exactly. drm604 Feb 2017 #18

read it years ago... eniwetok Feb 2017 #19