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Midnight Writer

(21,751 posts)

9. Exactly. People are being exploited by modern techniques to play to their personality traits.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #6)

Fri Jun 5, 2020, 02:23 PM

Jun 2020

And now, with data from Facebook and other sources, they have built profiles of citizens by mapping over 2000 parameters.

They know all about us. They have our likes, dislikes, purchasing patterns. They have lists of our connections, our beliefs, our Hot Buttons.

The Power Elite, the American Oligarchs who have looted our nation, have no qualms against using this information to their own benefit.

And they do so very efficiently.

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My best friend for 50 years has caught the virus: he's gone full MAGAT. [View all] lagomorph777 Jun 2020 OP

I'm sorry for you. idziak4ever1234 Jun 2020 #1

So sorry to hear that, but I've seen it in my life, too. CrispyQ Jun 2020 #2

This mass social pathology has been FOSTERED. Hortensis Jun 2020 #6

Exactly. People are being exploited by modern techniques to play to their personality traits. Midnight Writer Jun 2020 #9

Those "hot buttons" all right. Wired to the gut, not the brain. Hortensis Jun 2020 #10

I'm afraid it's a trend Bluesaph Jun 2020 #3

There's a lot of this going around uponit7771 Jun 2020 #4

Certainly more going the other way mahina Jun 2020 #5

I'm an asshole so I'd tell him to get his head examined. hunter Jun 2020 #7

I meant "virus" figuratively but I wonder whether he's "asymptomatic" ... lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #8

He's almost certainly been hiding it, Lago. This is a period Hortensis Jun 2020 #11

He sounded quite uncomfortable when I laid into him. lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #12

Good. :) Hortensis Jun 2020 #15

I'd just tell them to call ya when they realize they were wrong, and not before then and... Brainfodder Jun 2020 #13

Exactly right. lagomorph777 Jun 2020 #14