• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Lemmy needs a chill pill when it comes to BlueAnon conspiracy crap. It hurts the movement.

    • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      It also gets red maga all freaked out and looking dumb. Like the escalator where the blue maga initially said someone did it on purpose and that made red maga go “how dare!” and then it turned out to be their dude and it made them look daf.

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        4 days ago

        The fault with this train of thought is that it assumes that the MAGA nutters will see the correction. They won’t, and they’ll go on parroting the initial incorrect statement and that will just become yet another ‘alternative fact’ that they abide by.

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          3 days ago

          It makes them look more and more delusional on the bigger scale though. The whole “The right are mad at xyz” headline is becoming a parody in and of itself.