The thing that gets me is how none of these explanations make any sense in the context that we were on our own for three years. No one’s doing an act for three years, especially with nobody to troll. No government is paying foreign agents to talk to each other. And like you said it’s very self-centered, almost to the point of solipsism, like my opinion is so important that people are concocting these elaborate ruses to try and fool me, as opposed to the idea that… people just think differently than you? Just an utter unwillingness to consider that anyone might exist who doesn’t fit neatly into one of the two mainstream American cultural boxes. Social chauvinists tbqh.
Yeah and you see a lot of stuff that’s like, in one of the first news threads we were in someone was like, “Just bring up Tiananmen Square, that’ll make 'em go away,” (and get absolutely dogpiled) and today I saw someone post that copypasta with the Chinese characters that’s supposed to dispel Chinese bots or agents, and it’s like, those things never work. They have to know they never work. It really is just an article of faith, it’s clutching your beads and repeating a mantra until the demons leave you alone.
The thing that gets me is how none of these explanations make any sense in the context that we were on our own for three years. No one’s doing an act for three years, especially with nobody to troll. No government is paying foreign agents to talk to each other. And like you said it’s very self-centered, almost to the point of solipsism, like my opinion is so important that people are concocting these elaborate ruses to try and fool me, as opposed to the idea that… people just think differently than you? Just an utter unwillingness to consider that anyone might exist who doesn’t fit neatly into one of the two mainstream American cultural boxes. Social chauvinists tbqh.
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Yeah and you see a lot of stuff that’s like, in one of the first news threads we were in someone was like, “Just bring up Tiananmen Square, that’ll make 'em go away,” (and get absolutely dogpiled) and today I saw someone post that copypasta with the Chinese characters that’s supposed to dispel Chinese bots or agents, and it’s like, those things never work. They have to know they never work. It really is just an article of faith, it’s clutching your beads and repeating a mantra until the demons leave you alone.
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