It's fascinating and hilarious that the only people who seem to fall for 4chan "troll-the-libs" operations are conservatives. Here's a short thread on a fake "Trans Rights Campaign" meme that only right-wingers fell for.
It all began in August of last year when an anonymous poster on 4chan's /pol/ board made the image used in the first tweet and instructed fellow posters to start spreading it: archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/223…
Apparently the campaign wasn't successful however because for some reason, the meme only started popping up in right-wing websites in 2020. It's appeared in several places including Pulpit and Pen: pulpitandpen.org/2019/08/14/str…
PJ Media writer Stephen Green wrote it up also: pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/20…
Just to be clear, there is no "Trans Rights Campaign" and the symbol used in the fake group's logo is not commonly used by transgender activists. But since right-wing information sharing is more about coprophagia than journalism, none of this seems to have mattered.
The fake image has gotten widely shared on Twitter as well:
More gullible people claiming that other people are insane:

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28 Dec 20
What's known as American conservatism is mostly rural white cultural sensibilities that have been marketed as a political philosophy. This is nowhere more evident than the many children's books that have been published to fulfill a supposed need for "godly" kid-lit.
A few more. Please note that these are all real and that I've provided only a small sampling here.
More:
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24 Dec 20
Breitbart is mad at NPR for naming @iamcardib's "WAP" as the song of the year. Naturally, the article is illustrated with an unflattering photo.

Let's be clear: The outrage isn't about the song being about sex. It's that black women made it. The commenters got the message.
Oh and look at that: A little further down the Breitbart homepage, we have another pearl-clutching article crying about a funny sweater worn by @oliviamunn paying tribute to Kamala Harris.

This is a trend that really bugged me when I was conservative....
The common denominator in these attacks and the relentless smears and lies about @AOC and other young progressive women is sexism and racism. In the GOP media ecosystem, young women cannot think for themselves. They exist only to be eye candy who repeat back old men's views.
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24 Dec 20
Trump's veto of the GOP-backed defense and COVID relief bills seems at first to be a mere temper tantrum. It is that in part, but it's primary Trump's warning shot against Republican elites to do everything he says or face complete destruction. 1/x
While GOP elites kiss up to Trump in public they actually ridicule & despise him in private. They hate Trump & want to be rid of him, but they couldn't do it for fear of alienating his voters.

Trump vetoing defense & COVID relief bills is a warning about his "Samson option."
Named after the Bible character, a Samson option refers to a country's ability to utterly destroy a hostile foreign power in the event of its own annihilation. It typically refers to Israel's long-rumored nuclear weapons and willingness to use them.
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22 Dec 20
Sane people must learn and never forget that the stupidity of the far right is much less important than its dangerousness.

The more deluded people become, the more they will justify to promote their beliefs.
In fact, the constant stream of absurdities constantly spewed from Trump's mouth and Twitter fingers is actually what binds many of his supporters to him.
Trump doesn't personally care about religion but he knows that fundamentalists are mocked for their beliefs. All he has to do is wrap himself into the mythology and then his stupidities become their doctrine.
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21 Dec 20
As I've said before, the best way to counter large-scale far right lies is in the legal system. You can't libel people and expect no consequences. Nice to see Smartmatic getting results.

Fox News is also being forced to air retracting segments, too:

mediaite.com/tv/jeanine-pir…
This bar complaint against Sidney Powell and the other attorneys who brought a frivolous Arizona election lawsuit is also an important example of seeking accountability in the legal arena: 12news.com/article/news/p…
Powell and her allies are facing a similar bar complaint in Michigan. We need many more such sanction efforts against her and attorneys who slander in news conferences while saying different things in court. forbes.com/sites/jemimamc…
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21 Dec 20
Most conservative media outlets are much more biased than any source they deem to be "liberal."

So often, the articles fail to mention basic facts that might upset readers. It's partly why base conservatives get triggered by facts.

I'll update this thread periodically.
Here's Townhall talking about a desperate Trump lawsuit trying to throw out PA's Electoral College votes that have already been certified.

It leaves out the two huge losses SCOTUS has already dished out to Trump allies, one of which concerned PA: townhall.com/tipsheet/bethb…
Dishonest and incompetent articles like this that refuse to admit the truth is why Trump followers still think he has a chance.

The article also fails to mention that even if Trump miraculously won vs PA, Biden would still be president since he won so many other states.
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