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    3 days ago

    Because they feel like they’re getting special secret information from the in group.

    Whereas sensible people are more likely to side eye that nonsense, or at least ask for a source.

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    What if the left starts a propaganda campaign flooding twitter and truth social with low effort blog spam that looks like sensational low-credibility garbage but is actually factual and correct?

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        Yeah, gotta watch out for that but there are underlying thought patterns that aren’t rooted in a political party. A great example is Harris’s “weird” campaign. All she did was call out Republican behavior as “weird” and it really got under their skin. Conservatives have a deathly fear of being excluded from the in-group. Calling them weird clawed at that fear and got them to react. It’s low-brow, but it worked.