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KamikazePotato posted...

Nah. It has an effect. Not a gigantic effect, unless you have a big twitter following, but people on the sidelines do look at these things. Conservatives won't be convinced - flaky independents can. Saying otherwise is just doomerism to downplay someone here actually putting in effort.

Oh I don't mean to disparage trying. If I had my way, there'd be a lot more people willing to fight through the bots. Hell you guys know I'm a fan of pointless arguing and twitters a prime place for shoving your opinion in peoples faces.

But to try to look at it on a macro level...Twitter is mostly just full of depression. Most of the spaces with even a little bit of reach are a cesspool of bots and paid trolls, and rarely ever on the side of anything remotely good. For every FD tweet that gets a ton of hits these days you just get more and more fake bot echo chambers.

Been at max twitter depression recently, have no real local election thingies of interest so been kind of passively looking at the reginoal adjacent race for LA mayor(I don't live in LA proper, so I don't get a vote, but I do work in LA). We basically have a Republican billionaire running as a democrat. Standard crime/homelessness fear porn all over the TV and such in a deep blue area. Needless to say, in a fairly deep blue area like LA, he shouldn't have much chance. But with the kind of money he can throw around...you click any local tweet about the election and you are inundated with paid trolls for a very localized election. to the average idiot they are all going to look real, just an instant fake echo chamber. The whole system and how its been basically weaponized for instant propaganda just kind of scares and depresses the hell out of me.

And its hard to blame the average person for not caring enough to counter them because you know most of the people on the other side are being paid to do it.