Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 5, 2013 @01:45AM from the only-with-long-arms-of-course dept.

rueger writes "Right now there's an election happening in British Columbia. A desperate government is flooding Facebook with "Sponsored Post" spam (example) extolling the wonderful things that they plan to do if re-elected. There's one problem though. Every one of these posts is followed by hundreds of extremely negative comments added by people who either dislike the party in question, or Facebook spam in general. Desperate moderators are trying to control the 'discussion,' but seem to have no hope of doing so. What was thought to be a cool marketing tool has turned into a public relations disaster. Is this the worst use of social media in an election?"

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Re:Politics, still they don't get it by tehcyder · 2013-03-05 04:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hmmm...Many people now think that Regan actually did a pretty good job overall.
He was still as dumb as a sack full of hammer handles, as I believe they say your side of the pond.
What annoys non-Americans about Regan (and particularly Bush Jr) is not so much how evil they were, but how fucking thick. I mean, I hate Margaret Thatcher, but I wouldn't say she was actually of below normal intelligence.

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