• osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been wondering something, specifically related to something I heard mentioned last night on a stream: their hypothesis was that real life ground game, door knocking or whatever, doesn’t matter any more, and the modern ‘ground game’ is social media and 1:1 conversations.

    When ‘reasonable’ people delete/deleted twitter/facebook in droves, are we just ceding the ground game to the racists and the ones who can shout the most hate?

    • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      When ‘reasonable’ people delete/deleted twitter/facebook in droves, are we just ceding the ground game to the racists and the ones who can shout the most hate?

      Leaving a toxic environment that also is a privacy and advertising nightmare will always be an excellent personal choice.

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      I still somewhat cling to this same belief although I think it’s a futile effort as you’re not just competing against randos online, but networks of bots, disinformation campaigns, state actors, and an army of gullible individuals who parrot their rhetoric. You just can’t compete against that as a single person.