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    15 hours ago

    As Captain Epic Seafarer of the most famous pirate ship in human history, The Basic Concern Troll, even I think pirating is bad.

    I am very credible because I declared what I am. If you declare something, that means it must be true.

    But anyway, “leftist anarchist” doesn’t mean anything concrete to begin with (far too vague). At best, it implies a person is starting to realize their imperialist government can be bad, but since this person is taking the opposite of that kind of stance, it is pure nonsense. They may as well say, “I am a liberal [see: scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds] and I think the CIA is cool actually.”

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    21 hours ago

    Yup. I’ve encountered this exact kind of lib before. I don’t know what it is, but I do actually somewhat respect the fact that they say the open part out-loud. None of the sniveling “Muh human rights/democracy!” talk, just straight up “I LOVE THE C.I.A AND MURDER”.

    Honesty is rare, ya know?

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    21 hours ago

    Trying to make the actual material conditions of being a marginalized person or worker work with liberal ideology has produced the absurd politics I’ve ever seen.

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    1 day ago

    The real question here is who tf upvotes unhinged crap like that and the answer is: there’s no way these upvotes are organic. I can accept the possible existence of ultra fringe people with these views but that they all somehow sense each other and amplify each other’s bs consistently? Nah, it’s the Eglin chumps or some other similar westoid psyops artificial consent and consensus factory. It’s no accident that they go for insane combos like pro-CIA + “anarchist”.

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      24 hours ago

      Bot farms are pretty cheap for organizations such as the CIA. Actually, people like you and me can probably afford it. I haven’t tried though.

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        22 hours ago

        They definitely do automated spamming as well but ever since Covid and Ukraine the ruling pro-EU pro-US right wing party here (south EU peripheral s-hole) has been using its own party members to spam all YouTube channels that belong to local TV channels that repost TV news clips and allow comments (most don’t) with completely undisguised, crude af pro-NATO, pro-Israel, pro-US, pro-EU crap pretty much every day all day and using the same accounts. All boosted with bot likes while replies are usually all negative by normal people. It’s simple clownery that probably works somewhat and there are definitely low ranking goons in similar orgs that crave such an easy mode s-posting desk job. Prior to that in the 2010s it was the neonazis who did similar campaigns. I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t work at all but they do it anyway in the sloppiest way possible just to pocket the EU funding.

        It’s harder to see it as clearly in Anglophone reddit etc because it’s been going in for far longer plus there are far more shills like vaush, destiny etc that make these hot takes sound more real and organic.

        It’s nothing as high level as the CIA though. It’s the various “anti-misinformation” bureaus that have pretty visible funding usually that people think are classy fact checking ops when in reality they’re just facebook and youtube spammers and bot operators. All this came about simultaneously with search engine algorithms becoming useless, for obvious reasons.

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    2 days ago

    im a leftist anarchist but idk i like the secret agency of the most authoritarian nation on earth