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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Biden campaign joins Trump’s Truth Social platform

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Biden campaign joins Trump’s Truth Social platform

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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The Biden campaign Monday joined Truth Social, the platform founded by former President Trump, pushing its message on a platform largely dominated by the former president and his followers. “…
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    “A thing about campaigns is sometimes you just do things for the lolz,” Rob Flaherty, a deputy Biden campaign manager, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, of the decision to join Truth Social.

    This guy knows what’s up.

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      Rob is right around my age and the millennial influence is obvious. The progressive millennials have always ran circles around their foolish republican counterparts. The memery and clowning on silly republican bullshit is effortless. When it comes to social media the right loses every time.

      No clearer evidence of that then let’s go Brandon. A true honest to god meme that the right got handed naturally. They lost their shit and beat it to death. I literally saw some loser in head to toe let’s go Brandon clothes.

      Of course it got co-opted into Dark Brandon and they ended up only improving bidens image.

      I hate that we even have to talk about political meme strategies but here we are. And there’s no one better than the dead inside chronically suicidal for the lulz millennials to lead the change.

      Let them clown on the right. They deserve it.

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        The Brandon chant is proof that the right can’t meme. The left literally out-memed their boomer humor at their own game. Lol

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          I agree, but the right really isn’t good at processing humor or art. In their minds Let’s Go Brandon is still the epitome of satire. It’s playing chess with a pigeon.

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            These are the same people that think attack helicopter is hilarious.

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        Political memes are nothing new. “I like Ike” is as much a meme as dark Brandon.

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          TIL!

          The advertisement’s memorable jingle turned “Ike for President” into a popular catchphrase; its final line was described by Paul Christiansen as a “party-transcending appeal to voters”.[1] Adlai Stevenson II, Eisenhower’s opponent, felt that the ad trivialized serious political issues and referred to it as the worst thing he ever heard. Eisenhower’s organization planned to broadcast the advertisement five to six times every night during the final two weeks of the campaign in a few targeted areas. Eisenhower won the election in a landslide, though his campaign’s advertising expert thought the ad made little difference. Time magazine later ranked “Ike for President” eighth in its list of the top ten campaign advertisements

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_for_President_(advertisement)

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            It goes even further back then that with “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”. If I’m not mistaken, that was the first campaign slogan. “Tippecanoe” being William Henry Harrison.

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      Holy shit, he really did say that.

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        They’re about to start bringing Dark Brandon back!

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          Dark Brandon is the profile picture they used.

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          Dank Brandon

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            He has to do the weed thing, then he gets to be Dank Brandon.

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    Expert trolling.

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      A true Dark Brandon move.

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          Is this Joe the Plumber?

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            Yeah, he’s here to fix the drain for the swamp

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    “Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!” - P. Venkman

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      “It’s true, your honor. This man has no dick.”

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        -Stormy Daniels

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        “I’m gonna send him a nice fruit basket. I’m gonna miss him.”

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    I’m interested to see if he gets banned from truth social.

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      I think ToS said you can’t criticize ol’ Donnie D

      So it’ll be interesting

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        If he gets banned it will be great for shutting down my dad when he pipes up about free speech

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          Eeeeh, will it…?

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            To him no but to me yes

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              deleted by creator

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            Every little bit helps

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        Does it actually say that?

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    Biden’s gotta be trolling him.

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      That’s exactly why they joined. They said “Converts welcome” and showed video clips of Trump being more of a dumbass than normal.

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    Hahaha that’s hilarious. Good move.

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    I wonder if they’ll be able to flag things as hate speech violations, and force the platform to take action against its own members…

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      As in, flagging posts that aren’t hate speech? Because I thought the hate was the point of the site.

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    I hope the staffer running the account has a good therapist. It could be quite harmful to deal with that much stupidity.

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    I mean just imagine if even one person changes their vote to Democrat based on something they read on truth social, it would all be worth it.

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    Might as well have a little fun before it goes under.

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    I wonder how many democrats use that platform.

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      At least one.

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    What about Lemmy, though?

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    “Old Men Yell at Cloud”

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    Realistically is their userbase even very big?

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      There are dozens of them! Dozens!

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      https://www.similarweb.com/website/truthsocial.com/#overview (for comparison: https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.world/#overview)

      these are just estimates, but similarweb gets it pretty close on the sites where i know the actual traffic numbers.

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        Sad to see it that high.

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    LOL. someone is reaching

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      Yeah, you.

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        ooohh …guess you burned me good job

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