Seattle is evacuating its east precinct as a sign of "de-escalation and trust." If you want to understand the headspace of the crowd contingent tweeting about it: one big chunk is calling this "bait," and another is spreading the rumor that the police plan to burn it themselves.
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My take is that every aspect of this is incontrovertibly bonkers, a predetermined win for violent accelerationists fueled by something between tribal religious fervor and genuine nation-scale mass hysteria
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How much of that noise is coming from actual people living there, vs accounts being sockpuppeted by various disinfo orgs? Like, one thing to bear in mind is there's coordinated efforts to make us think things are more popular on Twitter than they are.
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I don't know. I was very ready to believe that twitter is mostly just twitter. And then riots organized and broadcasted via real-time platforms became a persisting feature of the real world, and leaders started literally handing over their police precincts in terror
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