Conversation

There is something about Turkey 🤔 Can’t be an accident that Turkey is the origin of ‘byzantine’ as an adjective, and the idea of a deep state, AND where several people who are suspiciously good at analyzing social dynamics, like Zeynep Tufecki and Timur Kuran, are from.
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I’m starting a conspiracy that there’s a Turkish diaspora meta deep state that churns put psyops analysts the way Venezuela once used to churn out pageant winners and Korea has a secret k-pop band manufacturing facility
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Someone could probably write a good detective series featuring a Turkish consultant detective who solves propaganda war mysteries. Oh another Turkish competency is succession by fratricidal hunger games
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CEO: “I’ve been canceled by grifters and the stock is tanking. What do now?” Admin assistant: “Call in The Turk?” All the yes men chime in “the Turk... the Turk...” Even those who disagree chime in, falsifying preferences* Availability cascade* follows * Timur Kuran idea
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