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Why the obvious mistakes in conservative X posts?
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:30 am
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:30 am
There are three X posts currently being discussed on this Board. Each of them reflect the majority view on the Board (including mine). The all contain obvious errors.
1. Referring to Tulsi Gabbard as the FORMER DNI.
2. Showing a clip from a Maryland school board meeting and saying it was from California.
3. Featuring an EIGHT year old clip from Woody Harrelson, one of the only actors to call out deep state frickery, and present it as if he were some kind of current threat to President Trump.
Why the errors? Is it just a function of sloppy, AI generated content? Is there some strategy to make conservatives look ignorant? Something else?
1. Referring to Tulsi Gabbard as the FORMER DNI.
2. Showing a clip from a Maryland school board meeting and saying it was from California.
3. Featuring an EIGHT year old clip from Woody Harrelson, one of the only actors to call out deep state frickery, and present it as if he were some kind of current threat to President Trump.
Why the errors? Is it just a function of sloppy, AI generated content? Is there some strategy to make conservatives look ignorant? Something else?
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Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:33 am to IvoryBillMatt
Online conservatives have a grifting problem IMO. Moderately intelligent people who can speak well (or at least come up with decent X posts) see this as a gold rush and are cashing in.
They can't rely on extracting value from big networks and "news" sites like their liberal counterparts can.
They can't rely on extracting value from big networks and "news" sites like their liberal counterparts can.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:40 am to VolSquatch
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Online conservatives have a grifting problem IMO. Moderately intelligent people who can speak well (or at least come up with decent X posts) see this as a gold rush and are cashing in.
That's a good theory. It's just strange that they have an error rate higher than the average PoliBoard poster.
Seriously, what's the point of quoting Tulsi Gabbard and then diminishing her importance and your own credibility by calling her the FORMER DNI?
I don't follow liberals on X, do you think they have such a high error rate in objective facts?
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:48 am to VolSquatch
Yup. Grievance farmers pump out the outrage of the day to get clicks. People fall for it, which is why they do it.
In the last few days we have had posters rush here to tell us the largest trucking company in the U.S. was going to stop going to NYC.....it isn't. Recycled a story about Gov Hobbs from 18 months ago as breaking news. . and relentlessly push nonsensical conspiracy theories.
Engagement farming clearly works with a segment of the population, don't see it changing anytime soon.
In the last few days we have had posters rush here to tell us the largest trucking company in the U.S. was going to stop going to NYC.....it isn't. Recycled a story about Gov Hobbs from 18 months ago as breaking news. . and relentlessly push nonsensical conspiracy theories.
Engagement farming clearly works with a segment of the population, don't see it changing anytime soon.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:51 am to IvoryBillMatt
The demand for ragebait is larger than the supply of ragebait
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:52 am to VolSquatch
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Online conservatives have a grifting problem IMO.
At its heart, it's an emotional thinking problem. The grifters just know how to exploit their demand for content that will lead to emotional reacts
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:16 am to Bama Mountain
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Grievance farmers pump out the outrage of the day to get clicks. People fall for it, which is why they do it.
I agree with this, I just don't understand the disrespect for their readers in not stating BASIC facts correctly. It's so common that it can't be an accident. Again, maybe it happens on the left as well.
Is it to mock their audience??? To show they will accept anything as true as long as the thrust is "Our team is the bestest!"
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:15 am to IvoryBillMatt
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maybe it happens on the left as well.
There have been multiple studies that confirm that Conservatives are more susceptible , and more willing to share, fake news. While it took a while to develop we are absolutely seeing on the left these days, especially the extreme left.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:20 am to Bama Mountain
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There have been multiple studies that confirm that Conservatives are more susceptible ,
Academia has conducted studies that shed a negative light on the right side of the political spectrum? Do tell.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:27 am to Flats
....and their findings are confirmed here daily.
Funny how that works.
Funny how that works.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:33 am to Bama Mountain
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...and their findings are confirmed here daily.
I watched nearly half the country buy into Trump & Russian collusion so spare me this bullshite about the left having more discernment. All parts of the political spectrum have idiots susceptible to believing people they claim are authoritative, not because they know anything about the validity of the information but because they want it to be true.
You just provided a prime example of this.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:36 am to IvoryBillMatt
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Why the obvious mistakes in conservative X posts?
Clicks. Twitter or X is a dumpster. I try not to venture over there because of the slime that is produced there on both sides. It makes me feel gross.
The reason "errors" are allowed is because there is no one there to check them. Here, you say something stupid, you will be called out in real time. There, if you have a blue check, you don't respond to people. You just shitpost and hope for clicks that you can then use to monetize in some sort of way. It's disingenuous and low IQ.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:39 am to Bama Mountain
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Bama Mountain
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:59 am to IvoryBillMatt
Social media is garbage, but people keep spending hours a day rewarding posters for false content. If so many people didn't place so much value on social media, the problem might resolve itself.
People need to stop giving them clicks and views.
People need to stop giving them clicks and views.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:01 am to TenWheelsForJesus
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People need to stop giving them clicks and views.
Yup. A pastor of mine says don't be surprised when the world is the world.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:03 am to SlowFlowPro
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At its heart, it's an emotional thinking problem. The grifters just know how to exploit their demand for content that will lead to emotional reacts
This is how our news operates.
It's not just a few people on X that do this. For example, just look at the yahoo or msn homepage. It's just one big page of rage bait headlines.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:05 am to IvoryBillMatt
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I don't follow liberals on X, do you think they have such a high error rate in objective facts?
I think liberals are smarter with their deception than the grifting conservatives are. Liberals operate on omission, splicing quotes together, and presenting the most extreme outcomes of something as likely or even certain. Their claims don't stand up to minimal amounts of research, but most people do 0 research and either only read the headline or at most the article, then move on believing whatever it was. Then even if you prove it as false later its such an engrained belief by that point that you can't convince them.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:06 am to IvoryBillMatt
They aren't errors. They are click bait.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:08 am to VolSquatch
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I think liberals are smarter with their deception than the grifting conservatives are
they appeal to much different people at the present time.
Dems are going after college educated females, Grifting conservatives are talking to working class people.
Both of these groups need to be talked to like children.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 11:10 am to IvoryBillMatt
You're just now noticing this?
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