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What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

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There's a restaurant in New Orleans that ran an experiment like that. To highlight income disparity in the city, white people were asked to pay more than POC. It was around 80% of the time they chose to pay the inflated rate. Of course, that was a voluntary price change. I'm pretty sure it's not legal to do what the festival is doing.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
There's a restaurant in New Orleans that ran an experiment like that. To highlight income disparity in the city, white people were asked to pay more than POC. It was around 80% of the time they chose to pay the inflated rate. Of course, that was a voluntary price change. I'm pretty sure it's not legal to do what the festival is doing.
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It's great advertising. Obviously they won't be allowed to do it but now they've made the news, gotten a conservation started, and the Usual Suspects will make insane racist false equivalence blatherings which will get people psyched to go. Brilliant.
 
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Kepler said:
It's great advertising. Obviously they won't be allowed to do it but now they've made the news, gotten a conservation started, and the Usual Suspects will make insane racist false equivalence blatherings which will get people psyched to go. Brilliant.
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That's what I was thinking. A music festival with free national publicity. Jeebus, you'd beg for that.
 
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SJHovey said:
That's what I was thinking. A music festival with free national publicity. Jeebus, you'd beg for that.
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Also, you only have to run one post once and then the news and the argle barglers will take the ball and run with it.

This is Life After Dump. He showed how you can get social media to do all your work for you if you just troll them. Nobody needs an ad budget anymore. Maybe this is how we finally get money out of politics. :)
 
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Kepler said:
Also, you only have to run one post once and then the news and the argle barglers will take the ball and run with it.

This is Life After Dump. He showed how you can get social media to do all your work for you if you just troll them. Nobody needs an ad budget anymore. Maybe this is how we finally get money out of politics. :)
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Maybe, although I think social media types were going to (or did) figure this out long ago. The fact that something called a "social media influencer" even exists demonstrates the power of the medium, and the depths to which we are plunging.
 
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SJHovey said:
Maybe, although I think social media types were going to (or did) figure this out long ago. The fact that something called a "social media influencer" even exists demonstrates the power of the medium, and the depths to which we are plunging.
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I think social media companies always claimed they had this power but nobody else really thought people were that dumb. Dump was proof of concept. It is now inarguable that people will believe / transmit information regardless of its truth value as long as it feeds their biases.

People create their own truth; their idiocy cannot be contradicted by facts because they will choose their idiocy. That is the great lesson of Fox, the Echo Chamber and, finally, Dump.
 
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SJHovey said:
The fact that something called a "social media influencer" even exists demonstrates the power of the medium, and the depths to which we are plunging.
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A few months back, there was a story about some guy who runs one of those fancypants over-water hut resorts in the South Pacific or the Indian Ocean, telling "influencers" who ask for free stays to go screw. It was great.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
A few months back, there was a story about some guy who runs one of those fancypants over-water hut resorts in the South Pacific or the Indian Ocean, telling "influencers" who ask for free stays to go screw. It was great.
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I went to a small resort in the South Pacific a few years ago. I’m talking private , only about 60 people there at a time. One couple was super annoying- had a drone, had several bikini and outfit changes per event. I found them- huge influencers on Instagram with millions of followers, including a bunch of my friends. I’m sure some people thought they were cool, I hoped a shark ate them.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I went to a small resort in the South Pacific a few years ago. I’m talking private , only about 60 people there at a time. One couple was super annoying- had a drone, had several bikini and outfit changes per event. I found them- huge influencers on Instagram with millions of followers, including a bunch of my friends. I’m sure some people thought they were cool, I hoped a shark ate them.
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Ugh. These are the kind of people I'm definitely in favor of sending to Kep and trixie's guillotine platforms.
 
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French Rage said:
Fyre Festival came sooo close to solving that problem for us.
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Fyre went the opposite for Influencers. It showed how much power they actually had. Now Influencers are reaping the benefits hand over fist.
 
French Rage said:
POS: https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1148671157484306434
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Wow. A great reply:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">lol remember when you walked less than a mile and got plantar fasciitis</p>— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) <a href="https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1148681358140739588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Wow. A great reply:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">lol remember when you walked less than a mile and got plantar fasciitis</p>— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) <a href="https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1148681358140739588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hello, Twitter Police? I'd like to report a murder.</p>— Warren Terra (@warren__terra) <a href="https://twitter.com/warren__terra/status/1148683229387341824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A friend of mine posted this to social media and I'm sure it sums up most people's feelings, but probably won't happen.

It’s time to start digging and don’t stop until every last one of Epstein’s enablers and collaborators are in jail. I really don’t give a crap who they gave money to or if they have a D or and R next to their name.... if you had anything to do with this criminal enterprise of child rape you need to be in jail.
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
A friend of mine posted this to social media and I'm sure it sums up most people's feelings, but probably won't happen.

It’s time to start digging and don’t stop until every last one of Epstein’s enablers and collaborators are in jail. I really don’t give a crap who they gave money to or if they have a D or and R next to their name.... if you had anything to do with this criminal enterprise of child rape you need to be in jail.
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It would be ironic if the Tree of Epstein gets pruned but the Tree of McCarrick (et al) does not.
 
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