https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221
…arificially created controversy.

Also the whole Dr. Seuss thing from a few years ago. “We” were supposedly outraged by a Seuss book, when it was the family who pulled it.

They love to put words in our mouths, because they get confused when we actually speak.

That’s the real question. Because the Republicans that pushed this did NOT think the liberals were upset over this, they knew better. So what did they gain?

Perception.

THIS, is what our side MUST learn to not only get, but get better at.

Learning who precisely made the decision to push this across so many media platforms and more to the point was able to do it so easily . . that, I think would be useful.

days. If you pay attention to the ads on the TV they often try and put negative emotions in the TV viewers these days too. Seems manipulating negative emotions are more fertile grounds that ads that inspire happiness. It started with creepy Burger King King. It continues with Skittles ads and the like today. Seems positive emotion ads have been seen to run out of power after 70 years of TV advertising. No doubt the people who made this ad were counting on a big fuss over it. We're they MAGA? Or MAGA sympathetic? I don't know. But the added exposure of doing a controversial ad seems to be worth it. Once the ad came out MAGA seemed to want it to piss off libs more than it did. And here we are.