Analysis just leads you further down the incorrect path. The answer is in the title. “Overwhelm” the only answer is we all need to make more content and to share and disseminate it. You see someone commenting against one of these bad faith actors, we need to overwhelm them. We need to get better at having fun while doing it. Inside jokes, memes whatever. Just have fun and make 5 messages for every 1 they attempt. We need to act, not study. By hoping we can study this stuff and figure out how to logically argue against them will only lead to more people disengaging because it’s impossible and not fun.

What if you’re wrong

So let me ask you something. We all know that a big part of shaping public opinion online is simply just being exposed to an opinion repeated over and over again. Like when someone says something and then has multiple rebuttals that are similar. Or like when we read an opinion over and over again that is not contested. Given what you said, how do we make headway in shaping opinions publicly by disengaging and allowing their opinions to freely go uncontested. If online debate is a waste of time, why are the just powerful and richest people investing in shaping it while you tell others to disengage

How about asking why you lose the argument instead of trying to label all this crap.

It’s like you’re watching your 12th “how to build a full stack application” video while they’ve already finished their 2nd project.

End of the day what they use to succeed is effort. We don’t. Look at the answers here telling you it’s pointless to engage. That’s why they succeed online. Those people

No you sure as fuck are not 😆

Thanks for making me chuckle

Lemmy is anti most things. I’m starting to realize being on the left is the new curmudgeon

We’re turning into trump supporters with our vilification and exaggeration of real life

Need to count the number of “fascists” per posts to get an accurate determination

Leave Grandma she’s dead weight

It sucks that protest is the only lever we have

I don’t call them protests. I call them “Opportunity to arrest figure heads of whatever movement in order to eliminate momentum and silently kill the cause since no North American protest seems like anything more than cows being led to a slaughter house by cops getting paid overtime to kick heads”

Vague terms though that makes it easy to think you’re right and they’re wrong. The divide though is that both right and left have different understanding of what is being exploited and what are basic human Rights

I would say maybe it’s something else in that a large portion of their base globally does not see leftist aligned government powers as allies

People burn calories at much different rates. Genetics, hormones, and medical conditions, NEAT all play big parts in this equation.

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Isn’t that the only thing they do

I think it’s the other way around. Rich people like Musk helped trump reach the white house. Now they’re making him do their bidding. Trump isn’t the master like his base thinks. He’s a puppet for the rich.

I was actually thinking about this. What if Trump is just a Martin shkreli

Hear me out. The board of directors for pharma used Martin as a Patsy to do something illegal. Martin takes the heat while the board reaps the benefits and they throw Martin to the Sharks.

What if this whole thing was all an act and they’re all using trump as a power grab. He’s tearing it all down and it benefits all of them, Democrat and Republican. When trump leaves, there will be so much power given to the owner class in the country while regulation and oversight is not what it was.

You sound like common sense and the other person sounds like they have an axe to grind.

Over dramatize it as much as possible making it very easy to satirize.