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Ever notice how many right wing influencers are on the grift? Like Alex Jones -… |
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I think that ideologically, conservatism contains elements that groom its follo… |
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Post #AwPAS5H4BKqbGPN9W4 by [email protected] |
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"Conservatives" include libertarians; monarchists; Christian Dominion… |
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Robin says the thing that all these groups share is a belief that there is a na… |
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Post #AwPAS67B3aWzs1klk0 by [email protected] |
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Different conservative factions disagree about *who* should be in charge, but t… |
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It also presents an irresistible temptation to the people at the top: if you kn… |
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But this is just the background condition for conservative vulnerability to huc… |
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Post #AwPAS7QiARkbwttspM by [email protected] |
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Likewise, the MAHA movement blames chronic illnesses and contagious diseases on… |
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Post #AwPAS7tmQN0FP3V68W by [email protected] |
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People who are steeped in this belief are easy marks for supplements, fad diets… |
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It's a double whammy. If you reject the idea that problems are systemic, yo… |
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Post #AwPAS8n56lEsAZNGKm by [email protected] |
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Rejecting systemic explanations also primes you to believe in conspiracy theori… |
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Post #AwPAS9CbZrehRjJe7M by [email protected] |
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Conspiratorial beliefs make you especially vulnerable to a grifter's sales … |
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Post #AwPAS9bQ5bVMggvSnQ by [email protected] |
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And indeed, when you look into right-wing movements, you inevitably find someon… |
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Post #AwPASAJNSAfOt1UZJQ by [email protected] |
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This isn't new. The far right has always relied on the direct mail industry… |
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Post #AwPASAjbsdeOCNlWCW by [email protected] |
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And of course, the entire multi-level marketing (MLM) industry is grounded in f… |
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Post #AwPASBSz9vwkT6zkvY by [email protected] |
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Virtually no one ever buys any MLM products, except for the "distributors&… |
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Post #AwPASBudV843qrvq1g by [email protected] |
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The guys at the top know this, which is why they alone among all product manufa… |
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Each victim believes that they alone are failing to sell the MLM's crap, wh… |
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Post #AwPASCl6M422TaTjns by [email protected] |
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Like, a three-card monte gang might use a fake cop who breaks up the game, who … |
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Post #AwPASDAynqjRlqaP8i by [email protected] |
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Digital con artists do this, too: you've probably gotten an email from a sc… |
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Post #AwPASDaVGx9H30WmvI by [email protected] |
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This is another place where direct mail, MLM and conservative con artists overl… |
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These scammers know their audience and they have an unerring instict for an opp… |
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Five years ago, the Dorrs hit on a great scam: fundraising for anti-mask-mandat… |
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Post #AwPASEruVifP1HgCh6 by [email protected] |
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The Klan's second incarnation, in the 1920s, was designed the Southern Publ… |
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This system developed into a true pyramid scheme, with a bewildering set of tie… |
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All of this money filtered up through the pyramid's levels, a vast sum of m… |
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In the same fashion: right-wing grifters who pitch you on the idea an evil caba… |
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That's the story of Ashli Babbitt, the January 6 insurrectionist who was ki… |
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After her deployments, she tried to run a small pool supply company, which was … |
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Then Babbitt went to a loan shark, a "merchant cash advance" company … |
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That's when she ended up in Qanon, a cult full of marks getting suckered fo… |
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Trump has shut them all down and wiped out nearly all of their good work, inclu… |
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In the 2016 presidential debates, Hillary Clinton accused Trump of cheating in … |
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No wonder he's shut down every agency and rule aimed at preventing ripoff a… |
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I've lost a dear friend to MAGA. When I reflect on her life, I see the same… |
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Today, she believes in conspiracies, and disbelieves in medicine. She supports … |
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Supporting these things can only make things worse, which will make her more fr… |
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up own… |
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@pluralistic This reminded me of https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con fr… |
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@pluralistic I would be blaming those things on bad planning, bad design, bad l… |
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@pluralistic Don't leave out Glen Beck. He's been at this racket for de… |
