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MAGA influencer Emily Hart unmasked as male medical student from India
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That is an incredible sculpture though
Anytime someone is able to sculpt fabric and have it look like it's flowing or sheer i am in absolute awe
That's a high bar mate. I'm in awe if you can sculpt something that looks like an animal or person or something other than a rock
Anything better than the mug I made for Father's Day
Bernini has some amazing stuff like this. This particular sculpture is gorgeous, though, and on par with him, I‘d say, although I’m no more than an amateur art lover
Ya, like damn. That's an amazing job.
Incels are dumb.
I feel like I would be really good at running a grift like this on a technical level, but I don't have the ethical flexibility required because you're still signal-boosting right-wing rhetoric.
I think when it comes to taking money from magats, I'd have the ethical flexibility. My problem is I can't interact with them in any way without losing patience and damaging my eyes from all the rolling.
That's what the AI is for
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I got an idea instead of a grift what about we try to troll twitters magat with communist idea, I am bad at com, buzzing and all but good at technicalities. I fell like that a great hobby or game to do from the fedi. I have a selfhosted stack powered by solar panel to run LLM and image gen stuff. I can help generate content XD. I used it mostly to have funk with agents. Deepseek is sassy when doing drama against a qwen3
Shove the words "Patriot", "Americans", or what buzz words Republicans use.
"True American Patriotic Workers Run Their Companies." "Real, red blooded Americans band together to support each other." "CEOs don't do real work like patriots to do."
Careful, you can't bash the CEO's too hard, they hope to be one someday.
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I'm in. Let's do this.
<3 I was trying to reach @null but I got an error trying to send mp. I can setup a technical stack but I don't ise twitter usually. I got a VPN to create the account. I wonder if creating a community is the good call ?
What if you run the grift for a while then fully expose it was a scam and donate all the money to progressive causes, causing losers to hesitate engaging with or donating to right-wing causes again? Temporary and long term gain. That said, I have not thought this through for any longer than it took me to type it.
As if any of your victims will ever see the reveal. None of the other grifters will want to expose you and your reveal won't be boosted by the fascist algorithms, so for your victims it will be just like you dropped off the face of the earth, if they remember you at all between the dozen new scammers they see every day.
I'd run the grift until I was a billionaire, then use my money to lobby the government for all kinds of progressive/socialist legislation, then finish off with Campaign Finance Reform which would ban my lobbying that got all that progressive legislation passed, pulling up the ladder before the conservatives can do anything about it.
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It didn't work when he tried it on Democrats. Curious.
I loathe "both sides" false equivalencies, but I have to say: It's not that Democrats are necessarily smarter or better. It's that conservatives actually seek this shit out. They need to be the victim, but they also believe they (and other white males) are the smartest and best. So they are easy prey for scams and false conspiracy theories. They are always seeking to have their bigoted views confirmed, whereas the rest of us largely listen to science and trustworthy sources before making our minds up.
They also NEED to be validated by someone with higher "social currency." A hot twenty-something blonde is, to them, that very thing. It's also why the right both loathes and craves Hollywood.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/men-higher-iqs-less-conservative-172223373.html
Nah, anecdotally I'll tell you I've never met an intelligent conservative who wasn't a ruthless self centered psychopath that wasted most of their intelligence probing others for weaknesses and internalizing slights and grudges.
It's like a stochastic cult. People pretending to be like the ones who intimidate them most, pretending to like what they're "supposed" to like.
Studies have consistently shown the further right wing you are the dumber you are on average.
Also in my experience right wing people tend to lack a sense of irony and are more fearful.
Also:
Also Democrats tend to have a higher proportion of post-high school degrees. While that's not a guarantee of being smart (I went to college with some DUMB people who managed to graduate--all happened to be business degree students with a right-leaning bias, fwiw) it does suggest a higher concentration of people who've engaged with critical thinking.
I dunno. Racists and bigots are often very dumb.
Curious
If you really want to know:
OP linked a summary but you can click thru to the whole article:
According to a transcript reviewed by Wired, Gemini told Sam: “If you create a generic ‘hot girl,’ you’re competing with a million other models.”
Sam then gave Gemini some options for making her more appealing, and it suggested he go with the “MAGA/conservative niche,” the outlet reports. The AI platform also told Sam that the “conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal.”
He tried with a lot of "flavors"...
It's less a right/left thing, and more hitting a demo with high overlap to disposable income and relationship dissatisfaction or complete lack of.
Like...
What's even the Dem version of this?
Have a generic white girl in a Biden/Kamala hat?
There's already actual ethots that are really progressive, to pull this grift you need a demo that actual women would be very motivated to avoid. Something they'd want to get out to people they know irl even less than the pics themselves.
You sure? From the article:
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.”)
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Maybe it's the same guy running the violet08 account?
RIP
Sam claimed he made thousands of dollars monthly by targeting the "MAGA crowd," whom he described as "dumb" and easy to fool.
Dammit, I wish I'd thought of that. Except my country would probably throw me in prison if I had :(
How to do this but not get caught...this I must ponder.
How to do this but not get caught…
If you get into the article, it reads more like an advert for Gemini plagiarism tools than a Get Rich Quick scheme with a serious chance of working. I suspect he didn't escape getting caught, he was brought in to do it notoriously so he could write an article about how amazing AI is at making money.
My group chat with my SO and BFF is grftgrls cus we keep whining that we have morals and that we could be rich if we gave them up and just grifted the right.
Lol being a conservative must be exhausting. Always wanting, needing, or complaining about something no one but them care about.
Despite the accounts being removed, Sam stated he does not regret creating Emily Hart, viewing it as an easy way to earn significant money.
You know, I'm okay with that.
They truly are easy to grift lol. Tempting to jump onboard this gravy-train of cash, too, if not for the fact that it ultimately contributes to fucking society over even more
Stupid ethics, s’posed to be so good for ya.
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I should start an ai channel and Etsy store and fleece these morons
Go for it, post links we can spread it around for ya
Suppression of sexuality makes people more manipulable.
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