Bartholomew Roberts
Moderator
Normally, I wouldn’t recommend a Vox link to my worst enemy; but if you can get past the embedded propaganda, there is actually some interesting discussion on the way firearms companies use social media to sell guns because they are shut out of normal advertising used by other retail companies.
Two things struck me about the article:
1) By restricting firearms companies from traditional advertising, social media seems to have created even more effective pro-firearms advertising (at least from Vox’s point of view).
2) Vox is an adamantly anti-2A company, yet they were welcomed with open arms by numerous pro-gun people. At least some of them MUST have known Vox was going to do everything in its power to portray the 2A negatively, and yet they engaged.
When I was younger, I would have strongly supported that strategy and even now a part of me thinks it is the most effective method of change. At the same time, my current patience to engage with people who have already decided I’m their enemy is pretty thin. Instead of wanting to have an open discussion, I just wish they’d quit being cowards and get down to business. So now I question the value in educating Vox when all they are going to do is use it against you? Can you overcome that filter to speak to Vox’s readers?
https://www.vox.com/features/2019/6...fluencers-second-amendment-tactical-community
Two things struck me about the article:
1) By restricting firearms companies from traditional advertising, social media seems to have created even more effective pro-firearms advertising (at least from Vox’s point of view).
2) Vox is an adamantly anti-2A company, yet they were welcomed with open arms by numerous pro-gun people. At least some of them MUST have known Vox was going to do everything in its power to portray the 2A negatively, and yet they engaged.
When I was younger, I would have strongly supported that strategy and even now a part of me thinks it is the most effective method of change. At the same time, my current patience to engage with people who have already decided I’m their enemy is pretty thin. Instead of wanting to have an open discussion, I just wish they’d quit being cowards and get down to business. So now I question the value in educating Vox when all they are going to do is use it against you? Can you overcome that filter to speak to Vox’s readers?
https://www.vox.com/features/2019/6...fluencers-second-amendment-tactical-community