The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Pretty much sums up the whole political timeline we live in.
This is has always been the glaring issue with pure democracies.
That’s why constitutional republics were created. It’s supposed to be a counter to the negative side of democracy. The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.
FYI the last constitutional amendment to the U.S. was in 1992. That is 34 years ago. Unless something changes radically in the next few years, historians will refer to that date as when the U.S. Constitution died.
Actually, the last time the Constitution was amended was in 2020 when Virginia became the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights amendment. But, of course, conservative ciquanery kept it off.
Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?
If you find something and go “nobody could possibly fall for that!” then you’ve found your MAGA grift.
Shopify commercials tell me they’re all I need to make a business.
Everything you need to know is in the article.
Affirm their biases with the face of a pretty young blonde woman
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find something to do that puts something positive into the world instead?
Harder to monetize unfortunately.
yeah but you don’t end up scamming senile old ladies who chose the wrong political party 60 years ago and have no idea what republicans have been doing the last fifteen years or really any of what has happened the last fifteen years but really don’t deserve to be made homeless for the crime of getting dementia.
People who don’t even try to stay informed help maintain an America where it’s possible to be made homeless for the “crime of getting dementia”. Being bankrupted by medical debt isn’t normal in most other countries. The American right wing’s willful ignorance is bad for the entire planet. Countless individuals suffer because of their laziness and greed.
We owe them nothing.
60 years ago was the height of the Civil Rights movement. If those people chose Republican then, I have no sympathy for them now.
I bet he could do more with that attitude and a big sack of idiots’ money than with the attitude alone. There’s also a certain poetry in undermining their efforts with their own money.
You could run for office as a republican, they have teams of support people that will coach and help you hone your craft.
Lately, he says he’s noticed that “pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler content” has been getting especially high engagement on platforms like Reels, speculating that an AI hot girl Nazi influencer “would blow up. It would just break all the records.” (When asked about this claim, a Meta spokesperson said, “We prohibit content that glorifies, supports, or represents Nazism, and we remove it when we find it.”)
lmao, they remove it when they find it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
Blind people are the only ones left that should consider doing image moderation for meta. The rest of their former workforce is too traumatized. No audio though please, that shit is gross.
I’ve reported a lot of obvious (but not overt) neonazi content on meta and it almost never gets taken down. Maaaaybe 5% on the high end. It has to be extremely overt to register. Obvious dog whistles like “the Austrian leader was right,” using emojis like 👃, or 🧃 to make hate speech against Jews, 🐵 for African Americans, etc. slides right by.
Pearl Jam saw the fucking thing coming.
lmao, they remove it when they *find* it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
Yeah, I don’t use IG but my wife has reported explicitly nazi glorification content before but because the account would say “for historical purposes only”, they just say they didn’t find anything wrong with the posts. Fuck Meta
Every “debate” “free speech” group on Facebook eventually devolved to a Nazi hangout and kicked me out for being too left wing. Everything left wing group got sucked.
It’s a shithole unfortunately
Hey, they’d have to pay a person in the third world $5 a year to do that, do you think they’re made of money?
I should come up with a “scam MAGA” business model. Damn ethics…
Tell ya what. I’LL do all the shady stuff. You just provide the capitol. Just give me $50 million dollars, and I’ll scam the idiots FOR you!
Money please! Money me now!
Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money, needing a lot now
Trump already does it successfully
Milton Friedman’s grandson did something similar 10 years ago by scamming libertarians that wanted in on “ocean cities”
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Anything to separate conservatives from their money so they can’t use it to support fascism.
On one hand, I can enjoy the schadenfreude.
On the other hand, this kind of thing helps to create and maintain the alt-right alternate universe mediasphere. I remember a story coming out of Ukraine where a bunch of guys were making fake ‘news’ sites loaded with advertising to spam ragebait articles for cash. They said that they made way more money by posting right wing content so that’s what they focused on.
Multiply that by a bunch of people and add in adversarial nation’s influence campaigns and you get Donald Trump.
I agree somewhat but it’s not like they were bringing newcomers into the cause, this account was posting rage bait for already entrenched MAGAts, the more time they spend inside staring at fake boobs the less time they’ll spend shooting people
They can do both, you know. They love nothing more than cringe content and “righteous” violence.
Congrats, young man, to having found a good way to do the world a service, all while making a fortune.
Every cent those idiots spend on fake girls can’t be spent in GOP donation jars.
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This is truly heartwarming, more people should treat these munters like an ATM.
this reminds me of this one black guy that scammed 30k from the maga crowed. i saw his tiktok about it.
I absolutely approve.
I would do it, too, if I could get over the squick of even dealing with them in the first place.
Entrepreneurship in action, right MAGAs? Buyer beware and all that.
Crime seems so easy
To think I’m here, working my ass off and still broke, when I could be swimming in “These pills will grow your dick by 3 inches” money
Hey! I wasn’t grifted and I’m super dumb. What’s going on?!
Young Entrepreneur.
