How "The Right" Won The Political Meme War
If you had told me before the election that memes would have played a substantial factor in getting Trump elected, I would have called you crazy.
Different sources that are right-leaning... 4chan's /pol/, Reddit's /the_donald, and so on... are masters at turning left-wing agendas, virtue signaling and politics into memes that have a real impact.
The picture you see above is just one recent example from today. This meme is meant to draw attention to the fact that 72% of births African Americans are out of wedlock. This picture works brilliantly to take the piss out of black lives matter (arguably a terrorist organization filled with political idiots that don't understand the true sources of their problems) but it's something that no one can disagree with.
If you go against "black families matter," you look like an idiot, especially if you support "black lives matter."
This is just one small - very small - example of the numerous memes launched by the right to counter the leftist agenda claiming Hillary is a more ethical, virtuous choice for the "soul" of America. And it will work again to get Trump re-elected in 2020.
This is correct.
Social Media won the last, and will win forthcoming, elections. Social Media provides 'power to the people'...for real. We blindsided them the last election. They went berserk. All of their old models no longer work. They don't know what to do.
What they are TRYING to do won't work. They complain about 'fake news' and people respond by saying that they just don't like the competition.
Yup. Totally agree. The biggest problem I see is that social media is concentrated in the hands of two major corporations, Facebook and Twitter. 80-90% (that's just a guess) get their news solely from those sources, so it's pretty easy for both those companies to skew the algorithms to expose more people to the stories that they "prefer" that they see.
Granted, they aren't and won't be the ONLY social media sites. I can't wait for someone to take them down...or at least add a little competition.
add a little competition.
that would be Steemit and it's blockchain.
I'm pro-Steemit (obviously) but I don't see it gaining the viral popularity it needs to be a real competitor at this stage. It's too niche. Maybe with SMTs someone will be able to leverage it to create a great hook for the public but there's too much friction right now with the setup, website signup, posting (and blockchain errors), cashing out, etc.
It's a little too hard to use and figure out for the common idiot. Maybe in a few years time but it's hard to say.
do we WANT the common idiot onboard?
A fair question, but it's either Facebook and Twitter influencing the idiots, or it's somewhat intelligent people talking to each other in an echo chamber, if there's too much of a barrier to entry.
I like your idea for the invite system, that would make it a lot easier to attract people who would actually be interested in learning in how crypto works...so they're no longer the common idiot.
Hell, even if they made an announcement they were going to turn it into an invite only site in X days, there would be a run for outsiders to get in and figure out what it's all about.
The system probably just needs a few tweaks, but I still don't know if we'll get there.
one GOOD thing is that not many of the idiots vote.
(percentage wise: oddly enough us old farts vote a LOT)
We should say no to politics.....
I really don't know how we'd do that.
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