I was thinking about this last year as America is being clowned by out-of-state actors and why it happens:
If you paid somebody in the US to shit-talk the Yellow team in say (and I’m picking a country at random) Romania, and promote the Blue team instead… They’d probably do it. Even if it’s something insignificant like $50 a week. The US person has zero interest in the politics of Romania.
Fire off a few tweets like “Yellow team again failing people.” Or “Blue team, true patriots”, upvote some diversive shit, repost some memes, and easy money.
This is happening every day for cheap.
Mix in some AI bots, and for a few thousand dollars, you recreated Twitter’s racist/hate shit that controls the narrative.
Which is all the more reason to not bother with any of it anymore, people shouldn’t have to suspect everything they see and read, I don’t want to expend MY energy telling if someone is a genuine person or a bot, paid actor, foreign instigator, whatever you know. It’s not worth it. Turn off, tune out, drop in.
I don’t think that’s helpful. You can tune it out because you have the privilege to do so.
While your neighbors and friends who are feeling the pressure of all of this. My family is colored. No amount of tuning it out is going to stop a ICE agent from entering a restaurant and demanding identification.
I was thinking about this last year as America is being clowned by out-of-state actors and why it happens:
If you paid somebody in the US to shit-talk the Yellow team in say (and I’m picking a country at random) Romania, and promote the Blue team instead… They’d probably do it. Even if it’s something insignificant like $50 a week. The US person has zero interest in the politics of Romania.
Fire off a few tweets like “Yellow team again failing people.” Or “Blue team, true patriots”, upvote some diversive shit, repost some memes, and easy money.
This is happening every day for cheap.
Mix in some AI bots, and for a few thousand dollars, you recreated Twitter’s racist/hate shit that controls the narrative.
Which is all the more reason to not bother with any of it anymore, people shouldn’t have to suspect everything they see and read, I don’t want to expend MY energy telling if someone is a genuine person or a bot, paid actor, foreign instigator, whatever you know. It’s not worth it. Turn off, tune out, drop in.
I don’t think that’s helpful. You can tune it out because you have the privilege to do so.
While your neighbors and friends who are feeling the pressure of all of this. My family is colored. No amount of tuning it out is going to stop a ICE agent from entering a restaurant and demanding identification.