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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I tagged loads of accounts at the time, thinking they were just bots or plants, but a couple are still around and now I think maybe they're just well-meaning morons who couldn't quite figure out the implications...

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz -4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yes, some well-intentioned people may have been duped into spreading the propaganda. The goal of astroturfing is to convince ordinary people of what they're shilling, ultimately getting others to repeat it.

The trolls only inject the mind virus, but once it's accepted by an (un)critical mass, it kinds takes on a life of its own...

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Damn, I wonder how you managed to lose the election with such compelling messages as "anyone who opposes us has been mind controlled by foreigners"

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Centrists didn't lose the election. They circumvented the only one they cared about winning: the primaries.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 point 6 months ago

Indeed; their only objective is to suppress the left. The election was a huge win for them

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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev -5 points 6 months ago*

It's weird though. One of the accounts I tagged has just become more and more reasonable and I feel like. Idk. They certainly weren't all bad or deceptive people -- and being mean to and about them won't really help them figure it out ... OTOH fuck ppl who do stupid shit because they're too proud to accept inherent complicity in the evils of the lesser.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Still can’t.

Excellent username btw

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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

I misread the spine of a book when I was 10 and looking for my first username. George Eliot is fucking phenomenal though and no regregts.

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