based on holiday discussions with liberal boomers, they think both that trump voters are passionate tribalists who cannot be reasoned with AND that Facebook is bad because it tricked people into voting for trump. Not exactly a contradiction, but a weird underlying model!
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Replying to @LucreSnooker
Pretty sound - we all know that logical arguments don't persuade people - but that ambient tricks do.
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Replying to @inner_scorecard
do we all know that? Facebook ads tricking people into becoming rabid Trumpists seems a lot like all those “priming” studies in social psychology that don’t replicate
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Replying to @LucreSnooker
I don't know that empirically. I certainly don't think that is the whole story. But I think indirect persuasion working more than logical argument is a given principle, no?
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Replying to @inner_scorecard @LucreSnooker
Yeah absolutely. You may need a facade of logic but it's just to help the mark justify the conclusion they've already reached. The logic doesn't have to be logical.
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Replying to @LAForeverHall @inner_scorecard
sure (many such cases!) but the specific belief about the importance of Facebook is what I find so odd
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Replying to @LucreSnooker @inner_scorecard
$FB is just one part of a larger echo chamber. Put convos happening locally online. Propaganda machines used to be closer to one-way communications networks but social has made them multi-way by enabling self replication at grander scale.$FB is the big dog but not the only one1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
Also considering that your liberal boomers may also be irrational and beholden to their own propaganda networks. We all are to some extent. The logic doesn't have to be logical lol
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