This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-white-house-staffer-appears-to-run-massive-pro-trump-meme-page/

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And the entire media ecosystem succumbs to this propaganda because they stew their brains Xitter.
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"...swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think."

- Trump, last week, projecting
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1 million monkeys
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They learned from their handlers at the Kremlin
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And remember that before the 2024 election, there were all those bot accounts from other countries which I'm pretty sure that fElon Musk created beforehand to make trump look and sound like a better bet for the country. He, Musk, I'm sure is helping drive felon47's agenda and for the oligarchs wanti
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The echo chamber all pointed at a single demented individual.
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This is the evil of social media. Bots aside, it enables a small number of extremists to both find one another, and amplify their views to reach the vulnerable. Pre this era, all they had was Fox.
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putie taught this regime well
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This, from Only Fools and Horses, really needs to be posted ;))

What do you prefer, Rodney, astroturf or grass?

I don't know, I never smoked astroturf!

youtu.be/oSs2Rk-_dP4?si=AHYa5yRrOlty0MxF
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The emperor has long had no clothes. But plenty of folks are acquiring money and power through him and so the charade goes on.
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Canada just discovered about 100 accounts are responsible for the enormous amount of conspiracy theory posts. I'm sure it's the same here, where up to 84% of X accounts are bots.
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Out of 330 million Americans, 27 raccoons in a moral-majority-sized trenchcoat.
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It's fake, just like Trump's skin color. His entire presidency, all of it is fake.
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It’s easy to project strength online…
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They are still sucking in young white men like my nephew.
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When it gets big enough, for-profit media will do sloppy work.
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It’s why they react to reality by doubling down. Because their “real” reality will always be there, a safe space
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Further proof they’re not politicians, they’re performers.
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I don’t give two shits about their propaganda and lies.
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Them and right wing podcasters
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No one is surprised
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He won with less than 30% of the vote and most of them only voted for him because he was the Republucan candidate.
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When I go to that page via the link, I get no story, just a story header.
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www.wired.com/story/a-white-house-staffer-appears-to-run-massive-pro-trump-meme-page/

This link worked for me
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If he’s part of the Trump administration and was on-duty then that’s a violation of the Hatch Act.
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I have been wondering how many pro Trump comments come from the Trump regime.
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Funny, someone posted a Johnny MAGA screenshot today swearing at Broebert for causing the halt of Hilary Clinton’s Epstein deposition yesterday. Apparently Johnny sometimes gets mad at MAGA.
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This is pretty important!
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How pathetic
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And Shrinking...!
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_puppet_account href="/search?t=posts&q=Government_sockpuppetry">#Government_sockpuppetry
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"While the account's earliest posts focused on NFTs..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Isn't there probably a middle ground between smaller than it appears and "totally astroturfed"? Like how does one substantiate the latter claim, beyond this one major example?
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I mean, it's a Bluesky post on a personal account -- I'm allowed to editorialize. Either way, there's multiple networks that pay influencers to post. Influenceable, etc. None of this is secret.
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There are definitely places where MAGA does congergate online. Mostly forums, though. Places like US Message board, sports forums like TexAgs, TigerDroppings, AmericasBestPics. Seemingly those are organic
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Such utter bullshit. I have this country right now.
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This is just pathetic.
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🎯 Yes. Important article.

John Oliver’s segment on the Twitter highlighted this same point. Well worth watching.
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Queue the bsky bubble 🐂 💩
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Wired is doing the best journalism rn
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They just scream louder than us and keep kicking our asses because we're STILL doing that high road bullshit.
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I have noticed on FB there aren’t as many supporting comments
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Wired has been punching above its weight in these dark times.
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There's a reason we never see massive crowds spontaneously turning out to support Trump or ICE.
They don't have the numbers.
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The Trump team is purposely gaslighting themselves, too. I remember those huge screens the night they attacked Venezuela. They were not tuned to on the ground footage. It was Twitter
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"originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade's birth year"

I'm going to take a wild guess that he's 38.
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28?
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I'm sure their allies' ownership of most social media companies has nothing to do with how this stuff is amplified either!
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Considering all we know you should have known this since the bullshit started with this administration…they are called sock puppets ….
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One Spider-Man pointing at himself three times dot jpeg
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77 million votes my a$$
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Appreciate your post
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Wasn’t it just a few months ago when twitter started showing accounts’ countries of origin only to disclose that the majority of right wing influencers are Russian bots? (Then shut it down within a day.)
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…is this true? Gotta link to this? …if true it’s hilarious.
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It’s also infuriating that so many Democrats in Congress will not forcefully confront MAGA.

They act like they’re standing in front of an eight-foot-tall giant when it’s really three 12-year-olds on each other’s shoulders wearing a trench coat and a red baseball cap.
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ok but based on polls they have a lot of clueless people aligned with them, the clueless people could maybe be turned (not so extreme) but it might require them to get a clue and pay attention to news for once in their life ... and well good luck? If not now, then when?
Still though more disapprove.
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"While the account's earliest available posts focused on NFTs" of goddamn course it did.
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And AI is gonna take their jobs!
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NFTs. Of course.
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Yeah. Nancy Mace was her own sock puppet. A bunch of trollbots showed up here over the last week or so. I'll continue my policy of following accounts with which I have actual interactions. I'm sure many of my followers are legit, but it takes me a minute to review, and I'm old and tired.
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If they know they're spreading lies for tax dollars then kill them.
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Ivanka has the voting machine patent in China. ?!
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Yes. Trump has had a hard time getting people to actually show up since Jan 6, 2021. At his various court appearances, rallies, not as many people. Unfortunately, too many showed up to vote but was that for him or for just something different.
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“While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs…”
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"It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade's birth year..."

He didn't happen to be born in 1988, did he?
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Literally also my first thought.
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came here with the same question
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Yeah, I guess 2014 would make him too young (chronologically) to work in the White House.

Mar-a-Lardo, OTOH, ... 🤷
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Weirdly he made a typo – there's no way he was born four hundred years earlier.
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Ya know, I think we should bury that connection. As a 1988 Milennial, Alex and Renee are the only associations I have with it now. I think that's good.
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does this mean our tax dollars are paying this asshole?
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The Right has been talking up their 'silent majority' for decades now and every year it feels less and less true. If anything, our society, as a whole, has become more pluralistic and multicultural as time passes. Thus the white christofascist nationalism backlash we're all experiencing right now.
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WIRED does excellent reporting as on their short documentary on USAID
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They don’t need a majority. They don’t want a majority. The American civil war was started with less than 10%. You can run a country with 10% of the population if you’re willing to murder the other 90%.
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You can't though. They require all our cooperation. If we fight them, they cannot run shit.
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The Byrd Organization did the same thing in Virginia for decades, with support from only 10%

They didn't even murder everyone, they just disenfranchised them and put co-conspirators in key posts
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Any Maga reading this comment are experiencing multiple orgasms over it
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That explains a lot.
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