Some people think right-wing media is driven by ideology. In fact, it's an elaborate marketing machine that evolved for the purpose of selling "male vitality" supplements. The politics are just a way to keep the target audience engaged and receptive
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Folks outside the US will probably find these tweets rather cryptic. The joke is that it's impossible to consume more than trace amounts of US right-wing political content (e.g. Fox News, Breitbart...) without running into dietary supplement ads
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Further, some media personalities (like Alex Jones) have gotten rich purely from starting their own brands of supplements. You can't help but wonder...
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Also no, these pills aren't about erectile disfunction per se. They're described with more abstract keywords like "male vitality", stamina, energy, being "alpha", testosterone, etc. Left: the Nugenix brand being advertised nonstop on Fox News. Right: Infowars' own brand.pic.twitter.com/Iaa0FroHwK
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Well, maybe there's a lot of truth in the statement. If the purpose of information is to control other agents (example: marketing) then right-wing ideologies cater to specific kinds of biases (i.e. Paternalistic).
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Actually, in even more general terms, the cognitive bias that favors a static non-changing world (that of exploitation over exploration ) is the origin of right-wing thinking. To summarize: "Why change what isn't broken?"
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I see a lot of truth in it
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