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    4 months ago

    But what is it actually accomplishing for him? Is it giving him reach he wouldn’t otherwise have?

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      4 months ago

      Energizing the core voting base is more useful than you might think, and it projects a very “we’re outsiders finding ways to make our voices heard” appearance to those delusional enough to believe his garbage. It also almost assuredly gives people a space to easily create and share bigoted, awful memes that later get disseminated onto other platforms like Facebook where tech-illiterate boomers eat them up.