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[โ€“] LurkerCandado@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, that demographic is always great for their advertiser acquisition goal

[โ€“] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? Nothing like a festering pile of bigotry & ignorance to get the advertisers signing up.

[โ€“] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You joke but itโ€™s not exactly wrong.

People like that love to buy dumb shit. After a time Reddit will be nothing but my pillow, t shirt companies, colonial penn life insurance, and reverse mortgage ads.

[โ€“] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but they're not exactly swimming in disposable income, usually. Trump's base is mostly non-college-educated whites. Not exactly a rich vein to mine.

True, but thatโ€™s the same base for the mega churches, and those fucks arenโ€™t hurting for private jets.

Trump raises a few million bucks every time he tells his supporters to donate. A LOT of companies want in on that