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Money in social media is used to replicate what we do naturally. We do it for free everyday. We also have the ability to make the money they spend exponentially increase. The "money" you're talking about goes to buying views, bots to pollute comment sections, reach and engagement. Every comment section or piece of media that produced costs money. If we drown that out, they have to pay more. We can blow up their costs with minimal effort, but we have to be aware of it. Same way we all were on the same page with "dont wrestle with pigs" a message that weirdly propagated among the left.
That money is used to replicate what we all do for free which is my point. Our attention is money. We all can beat money if we actually sat and thought about it for half a second. Money isn't the reason they're winning. They're winning because what that money buys gives them an advantage.
The left are just as easily led. The problem is they don't have awareness. Something I'm coming to realize is the right might actually have a lot more self awareness. They are in it to win. That's why they don't care about Trump and what he says or does.
Nope. Hard disagree. We're not talking about the same thing and we have way different views about how much time and energy it would take to drown out the efforts of billionaires and foreign states. If we focused our energy on that we'd achieve a drop in the ocean. Hell, I feel like I'm wasting my time arguing with a bot right now and I've achieved jack fuck.
It's not about getting dirty now when it comes to this, it's about effectiveness. You are ignoring my points, moving goal posts, and instigating responses. Good luck with whatever. I'm out.
Crazy how you can argue that a single entity regardless of how much money they have could ever out pace the efforts of a mass of people. But this is why the left isn't winning while they are.
You can't ever convince me that we can mobilize people to step out into the street for every damn issue like the woman's March, George Floyd, anti King protest, Anti ice. That you somehow have reasoned that you can see the streets filled with enough people to do something through that action but you can't ever imagine those people being expected to create content or share or network or just leave 5-10 comments online when they see a shit as right wing take.
The output by any billionaire trying to output views online is no match for a motivated people. But this is the problem. The left have become Luddites while the right seizes every digital space.
Every left wing spaces I'm in now becomes a hateful place towards any new technology or social media.