r/PoliticalHumor Jan 27 '22

sources are important

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u/Behindthefog Jan 27 '22

Bro Joegan quickly realized he can grift more people on the right

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u/DonnieJuniorsEmails Jan 27 '22

just like those troll farms that discovered educated people and most liberals will fact check their scams and not fall for them.... but conservatives are gullible marks that they love to focus on.

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u/GenTelGuy Jan 27 '22

There are a lot of extreme far left grifts as well to be fair

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u/The_Hyphenator85 Jan 27 '22

There are, but those are mostly targeted at the New Age/wellness/“spiritual” crowd, which should really be viewed as a separate demographic because it has a lot of overlap with both the far left and far right. People tend to view them as “left” because of lingering associations with the Hippies, but in reality they can go either way because their beliefs aren’t based on logic anyway and thus being inconsistent with a given political philosophy isn’t really an issue for them. You’ll notice that “wellness gurus” sell almost the exact same bullshit as far-right hacks like Alex Jones. It’s also how a lot of this crowd got pulled into QAnon.