American here. I’m going to boo the US national anthem at a certain international sports competition later this year. Assuming it’s safe for me to stay in the country to attend it.
That shirt should say MAGA, not USA.
I don’t think I’m one of the good guys and I honestly don’t care what you think. I’m trying to point to the people doing harm, so Canada doesn’t fall for the same shit. You guys are kind of heading in our direction. Let us serve as a warning to you. For real.
America is not your enemy, but we do have some shitty people doing real harm.
“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”
The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,…
Man that link and following conversation was a doozy. I really don’t think I can lose any more faith in people.
Yeah, it’s pretty depressing. That was from 2015, right when they started to ramp up. They know so much more now and with AI’s help, are so much better at it.
A friend of Russia is our enemy, at least at this point in history.
boo’d
Just “booed”. You don’t need fancy apostrophes.
That’s literally what the apostrophe is for, though. If you’d seen what I’ve seen in regards to contractions that shouldn’t’ve been made, y’all’d’ve lost your mind.