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I've read internet comments from many of them, met a few of them, and am friends with one. My friend regularly sends me articles from Brietbart and other conspi
by throwaway287391 8y ago
I've read internet comments from many of them, met a few of them, and am friends with one. My friend regularly sends me articles from Brietbart and other conspiracy mongering outlets who write entire articles based on Jason Wohl tweets. People who consume /r/The_Donald, chain emails, and propaganda outlets like Fox News, Breitbart, and the like are Trump's base. They are typically not podcast-listening thinkpiece-reading latte-sipping yuppies.
Here, watch this BBC video [1] where they interview Trump voters about their views on the "mainstream media" (by which you quickly realize they mean anything that doesn't deal in pure pro-Trump anti-librul propaganda). Here's an article [2] on a study showing that pro-Trump people specifically like to consume fake news shared via Facebook.
But personally I didn't really need a study to tell me any of that -- how do I know? I live and breathe and observe the world and people around me...
And yes, this is a generalization and not true of every single Trump voter. Obviously. All I really claimed was that Trump supporters will definitely be a minority of readers of a blog like this.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-38191313/no-truth-in-journalism-trump-voters-cast-wide-net-for-news https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-38191313/no-tr...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-fake-news-us-rightwing-study-trump-university-of-oxford https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-f...
- base698 8y agoIt's funny how all the Occupy Wall Street protesters on the news were homeless, all Obama supporters were welfare supported, and all Trump supporters are ignorant rednecks. Socialists are all unemployed and look lazy. So weird how they all find their way onto the news. It's almost as if they were selected by image to fit a story.
- mistermann 8y agoWhat's even funnier is how easily even intelligent people on intellectual websites like HN can fall for such bush league propaganda techniques. I don't know how we can ever fix this problem if even smart people aren't able to see it.