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applegrove

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4. Yup. The right wants a database they can cross match with
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 05:07 PM
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voter rolls and have data on every voter in the country including their political affiliation. That way they can microtarget people with specific messages to vote if they are republicans or to be afraid to vote if they are democrats. AI could spew articles in front of you in social media with the latest gaslighting or threat or attack on a minority targeted to your age, postal code (which are have marketing descriptions of the residents). I can see a white father, an independant, with teen daughters, targeted with photos and stories of mixed race marriages with young white women marrying black men. Like that.

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