How to raise a zombie troll army in 12 steps. Step 1: Create something of real value, or if you can’t, leverage an inheritance into crap value with a large surface area. We’re NOT making stone soup here.
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Step 8: Once you’ve waited and detected the mob stage when as starving grasshoppers they are ready to morph into locusts, start probing gently for seeds of ressentiment. Whom do they *already* want to blame? A/B testing time. Liberals? Bureaucrats? Gays? Saudis? Billionaires?
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Step 9: Digital Al Qaeda Bootcamp Time! Start disseminating information on tactics and modeling the ones you want emulated (or calling out exemplars). Reward training wins with praise or small signs of favor like Likes, or even condoning through silence.
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Step 10: Now start deploying them in escalating battles with highlighting of “known enemy” behaviors. Important: do NOT issue specific calls to action. They must learn to recognize hints and attack without explicit orders. This is stochastic lone wolf zombie mobs, alone together
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Step 11: Almost done. All you need now is *one* historic battle. It’s a numbers game. You’ll eventually make headlines and is analyzed as “news” by all us patsy middle-class chatterati types. Your mob now has come of age. It is Recognized as a Force not to be messed with.
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Step 12: Congrats. What the hell did you win? Who knows, who cares? All the zombie army cares about is that ‘Twas A Famous Victory. http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/after-blenheim/ …
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