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BLUNT + LOUD & CLEAR: I am not posting these off-Reddit for mockery entertainment + insults of Reddit or myself. I am documenting a pattern of USA media influence I have seen on Reddit.
See this Lemmy post:
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I dont know enough about the context of the Reddit thread to say this or that, but I absolutely agree with the sentiment of this comment. Its the kind of New Yorker/ NPR listener/ Rachel Maddow smugness and obsession with "gotcha" moments, where the one claiming the "got" was actually the one being had.
Another expression is how any time we brought up criticism of Biden, or Harris, about how their approach was losing the election; the victims of this brainworm took that criticism to mean support for Trump. They took the advocation that what Democrats were doing was actually going to lose us the big game, to mean that by pointing that out someone wanted Trump to win.
They're broken, inside. In their minds. They seem to "know" the direction they need to go in to improve the situation, but they are incapable of making a decision that results in a better outcome. They're culturally committed to a path of failure.
In mental disorders, that is called "Executive Function" - which I suffer from greatly when fighting the Kremlin information warfare. The irony is not lost on me that the psychology industry calls it "Executive Function" and that's the executives in the White House they are manipulating.
Peer pressure, advertising, marketing, propaganda, union busting - all tend to converge on using techniques to manipulate this area of the mind and overwhelm it or cause disorder of some kind.
Look at the techniques from year 2014 onward that Russia used to manipulate mental function of people regarding pandemic / vaccination / defense against diseases: Many posted both pro- and anti-vaccination messages to create "false equivalency", the study found. It examined thousands of tweets sent between 2014 and 2017. Vaccination was being used by trolls and sophisticated bots as a "wedge issue", said Mark Dredze from Johns Hopkins University. "By playing both sides, they erode public trust in vaccination, exposing us all to the risk of infectious diseases," he said. ... "A significant portion of the online discourse about vaccines may be generated by malicious actors with a range of hidden agendas," said David Broniatowski from George Washington University. The researchers reviewed more than 250 tweets about vaccination from accounts linked to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA). In February the agency was named in a US indictment over alleged election meddling. The IRA tweets used polarising language and linked vaccination to controversial statements about race, class and government legitimacy, the researchers said.