• Soup@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Our opinions are wildly unpopular to the point where even if a bunch of us showed up we’d struggle to make a difference so we’re gunna need to buy upvotes!”

    Like…c’mon.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      The right may not have good ideas, organizational skills, charm, ethics, understanding of economics, history, or politics, or strength in numbers, but they do have the one thing more important than all of these.

      Money!

      • Emerald@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I’d argue they do have organizational skills and and strength in numbers. Don’t underestimate that.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Eric Trump says “what?!”

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          And this after his father would have made 8 times more money by simply leaving it in the bank than all of his variety of hotel and Sharper Image steak sales businesses - he’s literally the only one I’ve ever heard of who managed to lose money running a casino!

          “The system” is what makes wealth, not individual people these days. Obviously not solely, but the above example shows how it is the primary determination factor.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Counter argument: Reddit is predominately American. These upvote sites use low cost foreign slave labor to generate their output. Buying upvotes is outsourcing jobs. Keep Reddit American. Don’t buy upvotes!

  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Everyone with a Reddit account, let’s sell upvotes to conservatives on Jordan_Peterson_Memes. It’s income redistribution with zero impact.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    There absolutely no way this isn’t an ad for upvote buying services lol this is so insane and transparent and the worst part is it’ll work

    • spacesatan@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Have to respect someone getting in on grifting conservatives without even endorsing their views in the process.

      • Saleh@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        In this case they do very much help those views though. Either they create the appearance of public appeal, which draws more people to these views, or they manage to disrupt spaces that formerly fostered a different political culture.

        If we look at Twitter we see the second aspect particularly strongly.

      • Wrench@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Honestly, there’s and endless sea of grift attempts going on at all times. You don’t think people selling fake gold Trump coins, etc give one damn about his politics, do you? They’re just trying to wring every penny out of the die hards

        • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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          2 months ago

          Last presidential election here in Brazil there were some some traffic light salesman selling towels with the presidential candidates. And they walked around with a score board showing which one had sold more. And they sold a lot more because people didn’t want to see their beloved candidate on the losing side.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I have to respect the mall t-shirt kiosks selling poorly made trump merch right next to the equally poorly made Kamala merch. At least they’re just there for the hustle

          • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Right? I was going to sell 5g blockers online when the pandemic started, but I have some semblance of a conscience… Also my wife threatened to leave me if I did.

    • apt8@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Thats exactly what I believe. I know there is no limits to stupidity, but don’t you use bots to make it seem legit? Who would go around saying, “hey guys we’re losing. We should use BOTS. We should buy BOTS ACCOUNT AND UPVOTES from BOTSFORSALE.org”

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I mean, it’s an ad but it’s also thought-provoking and interesting. Before now we all knew what was happening we just didn’t know the details also kind of interesting to see proof it’s a conversation starter. I think I would have preferred it if the author would have redacted the URL though.

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Gasp, you all surely don’t believe that conservatives would ever engage in voter manipulation tactics… r-r-right!?

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        1 month ago

        This must be why Trump said they people only need to vote one more time, and then they’ll never need to do so ever again.

        One election, to rule them all… and in the darkness bind them

  • PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    Remember guys “no brigading” is only a reddit-wide rule and does not apply to brigade efforts that originate from outside of reddit. Also, koboldcpp is great for self-hosted text generation ai. I don’t know who needs to read this so go crazy with that information.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    “How dare the left accuse us of fascism, they’re the fascists! Now c’mon everyone, let’s conspire to fake vote totals so we can assert authority we didn’t earn.”

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Does they encourage people to buy upvotes in friendly subreddits? Either they are not friendly or them buying internet points is even more useless than I thought.

    • RandomVideos@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      I think they are posting on “friendly” subreddits so their posts dont get deleted and buy upvotes so they are recommended to people browsing r/all

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I cringe every time I see someone like this say “to oblivion.”

    Really? Is that really necessary? Why so consistently specific?

  • Zess@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is what they do in real life too though. They know the US is mostly liberal (based on the popular vote) so they have to abuse money and historical power to manipulate the votes into their favor.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “It is unambiguous clear that our message is toxic and the majority of people reject our ideology and us with it. Therefore, the most logical solution is to create an artificial narrative via manipulation and vote-buying that makes it appear that people like us.” -these people probably

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Or… I run a reddit botnet, and Christmas is coming up. What’s the easiest group of rubes to fleece?

      • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        It also worked with Reddit. The Palestine discourse there is utterly repulsive and gleefully genocidal.

          • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            2 months ago

            worldnews is absolutely surreal and awful. Country specific subreddits are also getting worse and worse.

            • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Holy shit you’re not wrong. I just browsed the top of the week on World News for a good twenty minutes and there wasn’t a single post about the thousands of civilians that have been killed. I didn’t see a single pro Palestine post and anybody talking about the literal war crimes being committed over there we’re just downvoted. I think I agree with your word choice of “surreal.” It feels like straight up propaganda and they are all falling for it. Every post about Israel was just saying something about how they’re taking out the terrorists.

            • Clbull@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              It’s hilariously ironic that I got banned from worldnews four years ago for criticizing the Saudi regime and how they use millennia-old scripture as justification to treat women horribly. Apparently that’s ‘bigotry.’

              Everything I hear about the toxicity of worldnews these days is baffling.

              • Saleh@feddit.org
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                2 months ago

                Well, Saudi Arabia is an ally in all but name to Israel. Also both countries have excellent ties to large swaths of US politics.