• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Right-wing reactionaries followed the right-wing reactionary playbook word for word.

    1. Find a few people happy to sell out their gender/race/sexuality/class/children and build them a pedestal. Don’t worry, you can kick it out from under them when they’re no longer useful.

    2. Pump money into sleazy businesses who don’t have offices at their listed address and use them to seed information into social media. Once it takes root, signal boost it.

    3. Muddy the waters. Redefine words, rewrite history, whatever you can do to leave people confused and burned out. Murdoch will help in return for a warm mouth.

    Every election for the rest of time will follow this pattern. Even after climate change has killed us all, artificial intelligence will spin itself up every 4 years to post comments on Reddit saying “I’m just not sure we can trust the Green’s fiscal policy”.