Social media is mostly bots, most people hate the government
Liberals are at a point where they hate the Dems and the GOP
The right wing coalition is falling apart with Candace owens, Tucker carlson, and Nick Fuentes separating the Nazis from the evangelical Christians.
Material conditions are getting worse, but we haven’t had the ai bubble pop or war with Venezuela. Either will make life way worse for the west and we’re gonna see chaos.
Idk what’s gonna happen, but I think trump 2.0 has kinda turned a lot of people away from the right by both making material conditions worse and being mean and annoying.
Look at any news sub on reddit and it’s filled with pro Israel bots and shit. But the amount of obvious pro Israel propaganda from the state and by bots and shit was so obvious it’s now turning every right winger under the age of 40 into a Nazi.
I don’t think the mass botting campaigns work. They only make people more upset at the right and make the right look like extremely annoying assholes.
The right won a lot of ground by going “Le woke is trying to put politics into everything”
But now every fucking social media thread about sports or video games or movies gets brigaded by obvious right wing bots, even the most stupid liberals I know hate it.
People hate this it makes it seem like right wingers are now the annoying sjw that makes everything about politics (they always have been) and since most people under 40 get their news from tiktok and shit the bots and MSM manufacturing consent campaigns don’t work.
My mother is 60 and gets her news from tiktok. She doesn’t want the US to invade Venezuela, literally nobody does only bots do.
It’s backfiring but I think the admin is super on twitter and think it’s working. I think they legit do not understand that they’re getting everyone to hate them and theyre making material conditions worse. I think they also believe more in the polymarket shit than polls because they’re that stupid.
What happens next? Trump’s polling is the worst it’s ever been. The right wing coalition has collapsed and now maga is basically only the white evangelical boomers.
If material conditions get worse we’re gonna see more Luigis and Tyler Robinsons in a country with way to many guns.
social media, in general, seems to give its users the impression they have their fingers on the pulse. this is especially true for those engaging in these attention campaigns of bots pushing a narrative, and it seems to create a feedback loop. they’re like social power users and they are highly sensitive to all the stats that say their campaigns are reaching receptive audiences.
it’s one thing to fund propaganda and blast it out to move the needle, but what seems to have been going on for a while with social media (and accelerating) is that the people making/pushing it hardest are also listening to it and internalizing it deepest.
and because the right’s platform is so large and ubiquitous now in our culture, the feedback loop has produced this enormous bullshit maelstrom they can all pile into and have their hysterical chants echo back like hymns. it’s everywhere they go, talk radio, streams, podcasts, cable news: it’s only escapable with determination and effort.
but i also think there are diminishing returns on bots in the commentariat. more people are burned out of arguing online, there’s an understanding that it isn’t productive or constructive for exchange information or ideas. and part of that is aknowledging that the person you’re arguing with could just be some bot or a bozo with a goal of derailing conversation by being a horse’s ass.
i don’t know what’s next, but i do get the impression that the louder and more bizarre the right’s messaging gets in chasing the ultra-online weirdo right, the more it will lose traction with typical people and drive them to tune out if not reject its messages and the medium overall.
like there’s really only so many things you can call woke/gay before its so incomprehensible that even some people who habitually want to follow you aren’t sure what you’re telling them to think anymore.
I 100% agree
I think Vance, miller, and other guys in the white house are on Twitter to much and you can just tell from the way they act.
It makes them look disgusting.
The second trump dies maga falls apart. Nobody likes these people