A significant number of accounts with no followers are punting the nonsense that Labour is somehow responsible for the Windrush scandal & Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ policies. Is this the first foray of a Tory troll farm?
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Replying to @mrjamesob
#BrandonsTrollArmyhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/24/tories-hire-army-tweeters-take-social-media-fight-labour/ …4 replies 15 retweets 38 likes -
Replying to @MarkMobile68 @mrjamesob
"Hmm, Labour have a proper grassroots support thing happening. How do we get that?" "Fake it, obviously. To the troll farm!"
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Difficulty is that the outcome is similar. Labour "grassroots" astroturfers complaining about FBPE is hilarious. It's literally identical. Tory astroturf bots and shills are just as effective. It comes back to a broken democracy. A two party state is liable to hacking.
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Replying to @LeavingPlanet @RobCoxxy and
Two party? Any system will be manipulated. That's how politics works.
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Replying to @zak_pullen @RobCoxxy and
Name another system where manipulation and focus on just a few tens of thousands of votes is the democratic tipping point. USA/UK share the same vulnerability. A PR system is much harder to tip.
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Replying to @LeavingPlanet @RobCoxxy and
The bigger picture is that supposedly centre left wing parties ceded ground to the right wing by adopting neoliberalism. Offer better.
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Replying to @zak_pullen @RobCoxxy and
It's an interesting point. However the bigger picture is demographics, disenfranchised privileged baby boomers, new technology making low skill or admin roles redundant, environmental dangers, societies moving to a post-masculine value structure, masculinised reactionary spasm.
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Arguably the growing use of social media as a through route to radicalisation on a ISIS basis, a incel (involuntary celibate) to masculinised masogyny, woman hate, anti-feminist, alt-right extremism and terrorist acts (like in Canada). But yeah it's all about just money and Marx
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