Donald Trump supporters are targeting black voters with disinformation, including AI-generated fake images of the former president, campaigners have warned.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    15·
    4 months ago

    I get the concept that mental associations form, without the logical brain needing to be involved. I’m aware of the power of certain types of branding, and yet still I still buy Crest for the most part, because it’s the “right kind” of toothpaste and that association was formed in my brain without there being a good reason for it and without my consent.

    I’m also familiar with people in the real world who would be 1,000% the first ones to suffer under Trump’s egregiously fascist policies, who still support him for some fuckin reason. Hispanics who support Trump because they have some weird linkage in their brain that makes him “socially conservative” in a way that make them feel good about him, even though the reality of him is far, far, far from anything that would have created that linkage based on reality.

    All that being said

    What on earth type of black person sees a picture of Trump with some smiling black people and thinks anything except “man those smiling black people are some bullshit” even if they think the smiling black people are real people

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 months ago

      I repeat this a lot, but not everyone is aware just how stupid facists are. Anti-intellectualism, by it’s own nature, demands the purging of critical thought, no matter how small it is.

      There is only one thing that matters to the modern Nazi - “does this give me power now.” It attracts a lot of stupid people. Nazi Germany leaders that were ever so slightly “not” in the “good group” Were largely killed, either in the night of the long knives or at some point prior to 1945. If you stood in the way of someone more powerful, even if perceived, you were removed.

      This attracts a lot of people, who somehow think “oh that will be me on top some day.”