It's frustrating. If you're against political violence and in favor of free speech, some people will twist your sincere sentiment of "I don't trust the authorities not to oppress people" into "I want Nazis to have an easier time recruiting." Which, again, I don't!
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I have no evidence about yesterday specifically, but observing the trollbots on here over the past few years — they used to be laughably transparent. To assume that this technology has not been progressing would be a mistake.
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yeah that's what I'm wondering about. if you wanted to drop a "drama bomb" how would you do it? find something sensitive, then in a coordinated fashion to enrage multiple factions with deep animus and put them at each others throats all at once.
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if you did it right you could get amplification effects from setting off a critical threshold of, uh, personality-disordered tweeters. it would cascade through the whole social graph sending waves of discord and bad-feels around the globe in minutes.
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so otherwise mostly sane people who might just be feeling irritable or edgy for whatever reason would get triggered and start tweeting dumb shit at people that they would otherwise have just ignored or left alone. positive feedback loop (of negativity/irritation) achieved.
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not that it couldn't just happen organically but I'm kind of a recreational paranoiac so I feel like, no, it wasn't organic yesterday, felt provoked.
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I have no doubt that such experiments are being carried out.
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It's upsetting. These things do eventually break through to the material plane.
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