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Re:Fakebook: A tool exploring the 2016 U.S. election Faceboo... by IanDrake on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:51PM (#17544988)
I live in a MA which is a solid blue state, I’m also not in a bubble and know many people who voted for Trump.

Not a single person voted for him because of ads. Not TV ads, not print ads, not radio ads, not internet ads, not beach banners towed behind a Cessna.

I know it’s not a popular narrative, but no one was “fooled” into voting for Trump. They knew what they were voting for. Most of those people liked his anti-PC rhetoric. Which is why doubling down on PC is a bad strategy for Dems.

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Re:Fakebook: A tool exploring the 2016 U.S. election Faceboo... by SlowRobotAhead on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:57PM (#17545044)
Agreed. I don't really care about Trump, but I voted third party again Clinton. However... doubling down on uberPC, calling people Nazis, saying "it's ok to be white" is white-supremacist talk, every day a new scandal... It's like these people are trying to get him re-elected.
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