• fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Pandering to egos, or what I see more frequently, predating on fears. I run my own email server, partly because I enjoy watching the diversity of spam and trends, partly so i know what new scams to look out for. I receive far more “drink this to cure your disease once a day!” types of emails than I do “smoking hot babe wants to send you a message” types of emails.

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      11 months ago

      the pandering can be pretty sly, although there is as much tits and ass as necessary… Rush Limbaugh pandered to his listener’s ego by convincing him that he already knew everything he needed to know… he did that sort of with his method of bitching about the world, and they sat there and ate it up… and just got stupider by the minute… Rogan does the same thing… it’s the entire right-wing playbook, all the way back to Goebbels…

      the idiot’s response to every good conspiracy theory is: SEE I TOLD YOU… they just get addicted to listening for that SEE I TOLD YOU ego stroke moment…