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Elon, honey, what are you doin'? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People who will support a politician will support them and people who don't will not, Twitter will rarely sway anyone to a different position.

I disagree with this. It's like when people say "why does Coca-Cola run ads, everyone knows them". Marketing matters. Awareness matters. Maybe it shouldn't but that's how it be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I agree to an extent. I understand your analogy but I think there's a crucial difference between ads for a product and political positions. You can easily get someone to buy a product, but getting someone to change their views on, say, abortion is much harder. Political positions are tied to identities in ways that purchasing decisions are generally not. There may be some ways to sway some people who are on the fense about a given candidate or position, but I generally think this ability to change people is way overstated. People just keep posting their opinions over and over and think it's actually changing someone's mind, more often they are preaching to people who already agree with them.