• reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    It’s the right idea, but too narrow of a demographic. It’s not the old people that seem to be the problem. At least not only them. It’s the uneducated or intellect impaired that should be reined in. The ones that are just smart enough to use Facebook, but would struggle to understand the concept of the Dunning–Kruger effect

    The amount of younger people that are sucked in hook, line, sinker, rod, boat, trailer and truck is staggering.

    It’s like they decided that reality didn’t work for them, so let’s just ignore it in favour of “insert discriminatory slogan or catchphrase here”.

    It’s bonkers.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 hours ago

      It’s the uneducated or intellect impaired that should be reined in.

      Are you aware that this genuinely sounds like some nazi shit? Let’s maybe not start controlling what the “intellect impaired” can do with their lives…

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      13 hours ago

      The amount of younger people that are sucked in hook, line, sinker, rod, boat, trailer and truck is staggering.

      That demographic is a whole other problem that requires a whole other solution. Conservatives have spent a decade building the online right-wing pipeline with podcast bro’s and streamers aiming their content at young teenage boys. Now all those kids are of voting age, and a big chunk of them have spent half their lives being raised on manosphere bullshit that taught them that they are owed the world on a silver platter.

      I will hand it to conservatives; they are frighteningly good at organizing and staying on message in ways that the Left can only dream of. If we could get half as organized as them, they’d never win another election.

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        11 hours ago

        JK Rowling is doing something extremely similar to teenage girls, and this isn’t really on many’s radar.

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      14 hours ago

      Yeah, there’s a reason the orange overlord is targeting universities now. He knows that election wins come from the uneducated and poor. They either truly don’t know, or don’t care enough since they have no investments worth mentioning.

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        14 hours ago

        You give him too much credit. He doesn’t know any of this. But the right-wing think tanks that have been waiting for this moment do, and he’s easily manipulated into following their agenda.