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[–] [email protected] 309 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Wrench 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man, the cash I could make with flexible ethics.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month 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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Keen observation skills. I wouldn’t have caught on, I’m sad to say.

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[–] partial_accumen 199 points 1 month ago (5 children)

"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

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it worked with the news.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] TommySoda 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it really that bad? I haven't been on Reddit in over a year.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] TommySoda 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Clbull 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Hamartia 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Soup 127 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Have you seen the content there?

Yeah they're gonna need lots of money to get any attention

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow, so it's basically a content farm for /r/TheRightCantMeme

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] A_Random_Idiot 79 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why do I have a feeling this person has a vested financial interest in one of those upvote buying farms.

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[–] Zess 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Probably a scam, but congrats on discovering the Russian disinformation strategy from 2016.

[–] Zoomboingding 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not exactly a scam. I still browse Reddit, and the Jordan Peterson Memes sub has been popping up in Popular for a few weeks, it had been a completely obscure sub before. The posts are ALL about US politics too...on a meme sub for a Canadian 'life coach'

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's because Jordan Peterson is one of the entry points to the alt-right rabbit hole. Despite being from Canada, his brand of grift is intricately tied to U.S. politics. If you have a very short amount of time, some people have put together some very short videos talking about Peterson:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIK-x5uT6oS9EnO9-D6ePsWKOxtFhDZdF

https://youtu.be/hSNWkRw53Jo

https://youtu.be/fWUAGfduUlg

https://youtu.be/CvH0Pkw_iCg

https://youtu.be/m81q-ZkfBm0

https://youtu.be/s1FkO7Tr70A

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[–] umbraroze 61 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Hey, remember what happened to Digg? Why a bunch of people moved over to Reddit in the first place?

I guess not a lot of people remember, so let me tell you.

Bunch of dipshits ran upvote brigades. Stories they didn't like got buried really fast.

Now, Digg was a hive mind site to begin with - good luck posting anything the hive mind didn't care about. But add blatant political machinations on top of that, and the site got unusable real fast.

Take a few guesses which political views those groups were trying to futilely promote while quashing opponents. Go on. (I'll give a hint, some of them retreated to Conservapedia)

So that's what killed Digg. ...that, and the Digg admins were being dicks and the site redesign sucked ass. (...insert comparison to modern Reddit here)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. Thanks for the quick lesson

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's pretty much US politics summed up, isn't it? Ignore what they people say and throw money into it to get what you want.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month 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."

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] Freefall 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Subvert the will and desires of the majority using money and shitty practices....how very GOP of them.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Brb gonna sell some upvotes and not actually do anything lol

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Wispy2891 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure that they don't have an economic agreement with that fake up votes website

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[–] chemical_cutthroat 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] Clbull 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They'd fit right at home on r/Asmongold. That place has become a KotakuInAction offshoot in recent months. So much right wing, anti-woke and anti-trans content gets posted there that I'm surprised the admins haven't quarantined or banned it.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that "Truth Social"😂?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Remembering it's an isolated Mastodon instance is hilarious and ironic.

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[–] Etterra 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] njm1314 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're telling me I could be getting paid for this shit?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Reddit was taken over by the right wing a long time ago. This person is out of the loop

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I get the feeling that the Admins and management are pretty right leaning, but the mods and users are left.

[–] chaogomu 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It depends heavily on what sub you're in for the mods and users,

But yes, the admin team is very right leaning.

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[–] iAvicenna 22 points 1 month ago

cause everyone knows if conservative replies get upvoted enough people who hate Trump will have a sudden change of heart. Is this guy in the upvote for money business or what?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Does anyone else feel like setting up a scam site that claims to sell upvotes, and donates all the profit to the Harris/Walz campaign?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

buying a bunch of upvotes on a website dominated by bot accounts is a very cost effective way to run an AstroTurf campaign

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not terribly against stealing money from maga dumb idiots with too much money.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I remember, back in 2016, when the /r/The_Donald website just used a bunch of bots and other fake accounts to juice their content to the front page week after week.

And then the Mods tweaked the algorithm so you wouldn't have a wall of Trump memes on the front page every day. /r/The_Donald folks spilled into other sites and started repeating the strategy, so Mods had to tweak the algorithm again. And there was this back and forth that dragged all the way into the general election, at which point the Admins finally decided to ban the sub. But they also had to ban a slew of leftist subs, to make things fair.

And now we have Hexbear, a site composed of purged Reddit-fuges. But Reddit is still full of Trumpies, for some curious reason.

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[–] LouNeko 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the equivalent of not being able to get your crush to like you, so you pay hooker just to tell people you got a girlfriend.

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