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This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men (www.wired.com)
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[–] 164 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)

Pretty much sums up the whole political timeline we live in.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This is has always been the glaring issue with pure democracies.

    That's why constitutional republics were created. It's supposed to be a counter to the negative side of democracy. The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.

    FYI the last constitutional amendment to the U.S. was in 1992. That is 34 years ago. Unless something changes radically in the next few years, historians will refer to that date as when the U.S. Constitution died.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Actually, the last time the Constitution was amended was in 2020 when Virginia became the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights amendment. But, of course, conservative ciquanery kept it off.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.

    These is a fairly daft bit about everyone having guns that needs removing. You can get on that.

    That law was added when guns were so imprecise it was difficult to hit the broadside of a barn from inside the barn. It wasn't designed for guns with fire rates in excess of one round every 5 minutes. Back then if somebody went on a shooting spree you could just walk up to them and punch them while they were in the middle of reloading.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball-sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbor's dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grapeshot, "Tally ho lads" the grapeshot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    A feddit.uk account winging about Americans having too many guns? You planning something lobsterback? (This is a joke btw)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well given the fact that the US navy don't appear to be able to secure a narrow stretch of water maybe we'd have a chance.

    Although given the fact that the prize would be the United States perhaps it's not worth it.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    That law was added when guns were so imprecise it was difficult to hit the broadside of a barn from inside the barn.

    That's blatantly false. Timothy Murphy killed a British officer during the Revolutionary War at a distance of 300-400 yards. They absolutely had the capability of precise marksmanship at the time the constitution was written. Repeating rifles were not a foreign concept either. They weren't common yet, but there was no reason for them to believe the technology wouldn't be improved.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The founding fathers weren't visionaries, they were just people who lived in a particular time period and wrote laws appropriate to that time period. I don't think they would necessarily be all that upset if someone was to travel back in time and tell them that people 200 years later wanted to change the rules because they no longer worked. So whatever they motivations may have been at the time are irrelevant.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They weren't idiots either. They weren't stupid enough to think technology was static and would never improve, firearms technology was literally improving during their lifetime. They wrote the constitution the way they did deliberately. The constitution was meant to be a living document, true, but the only reason to change that amendment is, simply put, fascism.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    The reason is people dying because in america if someone gets upset they have a gun within arms reach. How many shooting deaths every year do you need to see before you would consider it a problem? Because apparently 14,000 gun deaths in a year is not even close to a problem for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's not blatantly false, it took the most famous master marksman of the revolutionary war three shots to hit a stationary target. Those weapons were imprecise, objectively speaking.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Shopify commercials tell me they're all I need to make a business.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I used to work in web development and I cannot tell you how much I detest Shopify and its incredibly outdated scripting language. It's an awful product to work with. Customers used to come in with their Shopify site which they now outgrown and wanted it upgraded, and it was always easier and therefore cheaper to just throw the entire mess away and start again from scratch.

    So seriously if you want to do well in business don't start with a Shopify site, just get something custom from the start, it'll end up cheaper in the long run.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'll sell you my how-to guide for £99.99

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    find something to do that puts something positive into the world instead?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Harder to monetize unfortunately.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    yeah but you don't end up scamming senile old ladies who chose the wrong political party 60 years ago and have no idea what republicans have been doing the last fifteen years or really any of what has happened the last fifteen years but really don't deserve to be made homeless for the crime of getting dementia.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    People who don’t even try to stay informed help maintain an America where it’s possible to be made homeless for the “crime of getting dementia”. Being bankrupted by medical debt isn’t normal in most other countries. The American right wing’s willful ignorance is bad for the entire planet. Countless individuals suffer because of their laziness and greed.

    We owe them nothing.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    That makes sense though. There is a strong correlation between education and tendency towards liberal attitudes.

    More intelligent people are more likely to be exposed to more worldviews and therefore more likely to be more accommodating of other worldviews. Whereas people who were educated in schools that don't make a huge distinction between religion and science tend to assume they know more about the world when they actually do, therefore they are more likely to believe the lies right-wing grifters.

    It's also why MAGAs are so obsessed with wearing their baseball caps, they're so dumb they treat politics as a sport.

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