Melvin_Ferd
@Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Losers 3 days ago:
Yes. Think how it works. Humans, all of us have a very obvious fault in our system if you think about it for a minute. We are social animals. That’s our super power and our downfall. I can 100% manipulate and convince you something is real through repetition. Unless you’re an outlier like maybe you are on the spectrum and have difficulty with social norms. But the average person will change when the see a message repeated over and over a long period of time.
This is a pipeline from rich benefits -> think tanks -> political consultants -> marketing groups -> bot farms -> Internet users -> semi_hemi_demigid co-workers
- Comment on Losers 3 days ago:
Bots have been used for at least a decade. Before bots it was marketing PR teams who hired college kids to run multiple accounts. It’s always been bots. You and all other leftist were tricked
- Comment on Losers 3 days ago:
I thought you were saying the media is making fun of right ring wingers. The media is placating Trump. Just like how journalists are asking soft back questions.
- Comment on Losers 3 days ago:
It was bots that set a tone and pushed arguments that people adopted and used against you
- Comment on Losers 3 days ago:
Right, that’s what I’m saying. Bots targeted leftist and scared them away. That let their views spread rapidly. Now we all have to listen to the bots everywhere because the average voter now has adopted those same views as the bots. It’s only getting worse. We all did it. We took short term advantage over long term pains
- Comment on Losers 3 days ago:
The left suppressed themselves. Algorithms can only do so much. Quantity was required and we all didn’t bother. It was too much work.
- Comment on Losers 3 days ago:
They sure as fuck act like it
- Comment on Losers 3 days ago:
No it isn’t. The point isn’t that they themselves need to know too. It’s the voters that need to know. The people who come online to view cats after a hard day of PowerPoint and shoveling dirt. They get a small window to see this stuff. They almost always see something about some purple hair crazy leftist yelling about how they hate people who shovel dirt or use PowerPoint.
- Comment on Losers 4 days ago:
Whose making fun of them? Leftist aren’t anywhere on any platforms of any significance anymore. They can get away with whatever they like because the average person isn’t even aware who any of these people are. Let alone the dumb stuff they say. It’s not the Republicans or right wings job to spread awareness of their fuck ups. It’s the job of people on the left. But people on the left choose to remove themselves from majority of social media sites. I don’t even know what’s the point of sharing this here. Like everyday are we just going to say “oh Jesus they’re crazy” this stuff should be all over Facebook and Reddit and x and truth social. Not just on one Lemmy instance seen by 6000 people
- Comment on This is real 4 days ago:
Ok so what prevents everyone in the apartment doing this with a “cousin”. If you’re stuffing more people into the building then costs go up. Maintenance isn’t free.
- Comment on This is real 4 days ago:
Who cares. You softer than butter?
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 5 days ago:
No, only thing I’ve found that works is affecting the public image. Public image is critical because once the public opinion changes, the issue gets so much pressure building up. It’s an affect of digital age. It’s really underutilized. Boycott doesn’t work because these entities have more than one way to handle that. What they haven’t figured out is bad PR in a digital world.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
Yes Lefty’s should read up more on actual business because there’s a lot of areas they could be making Phenomenal points but instead we just get “eat the rich” over and over again.
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 1 week ago:
Ok but are you arguing for something selfish like getting them to agree with you? Or do you care that the president is a fucking racist child because everybody disengaged with his followers giving them free access to the eyes and ears of every day people.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 1 week ago:
Government debt and household debt are not the same thing. The politicians know better but they know people don’t. So they really lay it on thick to equate the two things.
Your debt isn’t creating jobs or industries. Government debt does. You’re not able to sell your debt. Government can.
I think technically, there isn’t a ceiling for how much debt a country can take on as long as it’s growing. It’s not great, but also I don’t think it’s as bad as people think
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 1 week ago:
I would be an for new regulation that changed that. In order to go public you cannot have a majority shareholder. I won’t pretend I know what I’m talking about. But my gut says if you’re going public you wish your business to grow to a point that it’ll have large impacts to a good chunk of people and so there should be more democratic decision making in places including adding people local to these businesses in as stake holders.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 1 week ago:
It’s one of the most rationale things there is
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 1 week ago:
But they’re controlled by shareholders and why do shareholders want individual nut jobs running a company when and AI can do it. Not saying we’re any where close to AI that can do this. But the idea is neat. CEO of these publicly traded companies seems like the first job that should be axed.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
Lemmy users will tell you both AI is useless while also saying it’s a threat to multiple industries.
It’s similar in that there’s hype and speculation. What isn’t similar is that the Dot Com era didn’t have as much advancement and use cases as these companies do today.
But Lemmy had some weird Afro turfing early on. A few users really made it there mission to post all the worst yellow biased articles they could find and that became self feeding as other users only saw crazy doom and gloom that it’s coming fer yet yer jobs or assaulting your women.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
You’re asking Lemmy about AI is like asking /the_donald about antifa. They have no idea it’s just years of circle jerking about this topic disconnecting the community from reality. Your answers here will be vastly different then normal spaces
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 1 week ago:
There was a time that this was something we made fun of. Now this is the goal
- Comment on Anon is exploited 2 weeks ago:
I feel crazy because when I was younger I would say this stuff to friends and family like I really felt this struggle and realization of how much time we dedicated to work. It wasn’t just 9-5. It was all these extra bits including resting just so we could recharge for the next work day. Nobody understood it. They just didn’t think this way. Now I see so many people online with this mentality and it’s becoming more main stream. It feels good to have that validated like I’m not crazy.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
It’s both. But the techniques Charlie used were excellent. Debate should be done in good faith. He wasn’t debating in good faith. But the skills he had to still do what he did was phenomenal. I have no issue with his ability to use debate strategies. We could all learn something from watching him.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 3 weeks ago:
It didn’t. We always had easy access to porn. Sounds like if anything kids today are having less hook ups and generally are more respectful of each other.
- Comment on Frankenbeans 3 weeks ago:
The Monster was the half dead creature jerking off in the bushes
- Comment on Frankenbeans 3 weeks ago:
Right, the peeping Tom was a monster. The Doctor trying to advance Science was not
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
I think his debates were actually very well done. It’s just that debates are not a good format to find truth. Charlie was one of the best at debates. Saying all that, we all should be better at being on other platforms and sniping these clips to highlight the hypocrisy and bullshit. I’m absolutely convinced that right wing groups convinced all of us to abandon all other social media so they can spread their ideas easier
- Comment on Every action has a reaction 3 weeks ago:
I guess telling people vaccines cause autism can be an opinion since it’s not based on facts.
Another fact is that there is a difference between spreading medical misinformation during a pandemic and opinions.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
Yea I just watched the whole thing. One of my favorite things I’ve heard recently is people arguing if Charlie was a good debater or not. One person just said “did he ever once change his mind?” There’s one a decade. Charlie was not debating. What pisses me off though is how little material there is for times like this to repost. Sure there’s content but everybody on the left checks out and doesn’t bother to archive anything worthwhile.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
So what is the response? I feel like these clips are great. But if he makes a great point after, isn’t it setting a trap where you share this and the response is his rebuttal which could be good or bad
