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mahina

(17,651 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 04:43 PM Jul 2019

I think we are missing the point of QAnon. To spread FUD. fear, uncertainty and doubt by meme.

Last edited Fri Jul 26, 2019, 05:31 PM - Edit history (2)

Update: as back to blue Sata below, this is psychological warfare. I know for a fact that there are active members in the Marine Corps air base in my town.

We are def going to have to at least match their flow of messaging.

The anti-choice social media posts go unanswered because nobody wants to be swarmed and made miserable in real life. We don’t have an army of trolls- we are workers and students and senior citizens. We’re busy.

We don’t pay for bots and trolls. This high road is who we are and it’s good but it’s a tactical weakness. How are we going to match the wall of disinformation that at least in part cost us 2016?

If you use Facebook,fb groups set up for other purposes are dumps for these memes and spread from there. This is not trivial. The messaging of the last few days is diminishing Mueller. One guy is constantly repeating as fact a bs crazytown statement about the Obama admin buying guillotines. Absurd but still being pushed to the public as fact.

Any ideas?

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I think we are missing the point of QAnon. To spread FUD. fear, uncertainty and doubt by meme. (Original Post) mahina Jul 2019 OP
Psychological warfare backtoblue Jul 2019 #1

backtoblue

(11,343 posts)
1. Psychological warfare
Fri Jul 26, 2019, 04:52 PM
Jul 2019

The unethical behavioral science (targeted marketing) is being used for political gains.

Fear motivates action.

Emotions are being exploited on a subconscious level in order to sway opinion and actions.

I was reading a psychology article last night on target marketing. The goal was to persuade people to buy things by triggering an emotional response -any emotion.

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