All that Republican screaming about voter fraud and stolen elections can’t quite hide the fact that most cases of actual fraud seem to come from Republicans. The latest case in point: Kim Taylor, ...
This is a nice sentiment, but it unfortunately doesn’t work. Have you heard of the Backfire Effect? Their worldview isn’t built upon facts, and often times, showing them evidence of how wrong their worldview is only further entrenches them.
If you want to undo the indoctrination, look up Deep Canvasing and apply it to people you have a relationship with. Trying to point out the hypocrisy to strangers on the internet as some kind of “gotcha” only pisses people off, and then they’re reacting out of emotionalism instead of rationality.
Yup, on reddit I would. But you get blocked pretty quick and the site bans the IP if you circumvent that.
I noticed the right do this all the time. Infiltrate a lot of places I visited that weren’t even political. But multiple accounts would post rage bait and not stop then laugh as people got all worked up. Its harder with their subs and forums because they usually lock their stuff up or have aggressive content removal policy
Thing is it can get good discussion of you get some past them. But there’s a tight moderation that controls what they will discuss.
No haven’t done it there. Reddit and twitter. But I named gab and truth social as heavy right wing sites since most people here won’t go back to reddit or twitter anymore.
No, I have done it. But also not an American so not as intent on spreading republican shit posts. I often go into right leaning places and stir shit to engage with them. From what I observe there isn’t many who do and that is a big issue to me since it is something they do often. And by doing it they spread a lot of their information rapidly whereas information on the left moves at a snails pace because it struggles to break out of certain groups.
The choice you all make is do you keep posting this stuff to each other or do you create an account on GAB and truth social and share the knowledge
This is a nice sentiment, but it unfortunately doesn’t work. Have you heard of the Backfire Effect? Their worldview isn’t built upon facts, and often times, showing them evidence of how wrong their worldview is only further entrenches them.
If you want to undo the indoctrination, look up Deep Canvasing and apply it to people you have a relationship with. Trying to point out the hypocrisy to strangers on the internet as some kind of “gotcha” only pisses people off, and then they’re reacting out of emotionalism instead of rationality.
Have you done this?
Yup, on reddit I would. But you get blocked pretty quick and the site bans the IP if you circumvent that.
I noticed the right do this all the time. Infiltrate a lot of places I visited that weren’t even political. But multiple accounts would post rage bait and not stop then laugh as people got all worked up. Its harder with their subs and forums because they usually lock their stuff up or have aggressive content removal policy
Thing is it can get good discussion of you get some past them. But there’s a tight moderation that controls what they will discuss.
On Reddit you would join TruthSocial and Gab?
No haven’t done it there. Reddit and twitter. But I named gab and truth social as heavy right wing sites since most people here won’t go back to reddit or twitter anymore.
So do what you say but not what you do. I see.
No, I have done it. But also not an American so not as intent on spreading republican shit posts. I often go into right leaning places and stir shit to engage with them. From what I observe there isn’t many who do and that is a big issue to me since it is something they do often. And by doing it they spread a lot of their information rapidly whereas information on the left moves at a snails pace because it struggles to break out of certain groups.