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.

Oh yeah the standard comparison between western liberal republics versus “theocracies” and “single party system totalitarian regimes”. Meanwhile most of NATO is still nominally ruled by hereditary monarchies (the United Kingdom of King Charlie that still doesn’t have an official constitution isn’t just England, Wales and Scotland, it includes Canada, Australia and a ton of former colonies abroad), socially progressive key allies in Scandinavia that make bag from arms manufacturing are almost all still ruled by kings, the USA itself only introduced a presidential term limitation after Roosevelt did four consecutive terms but act like this is now abnormal universally as if all countries have or should have term limits, the few Catholic majority allies like Spain, Portugal and Italy have the Pope as their spiritual supreme leader that has his own private sovereign country with his private army, bank, intelligence services and religious-fascist organizations internationally like Opus Dei that infiltrate governments and have vast political and economic activities etc, not to mention that the Vatican has never seen any repercussions for sheltering and aiding Nazis after WWII, all of whom sought refuge in CIA backed South American dictatorships or “liberal democratic monarchies-colonies” like Canada and Australia etc.

Somehow the US constantly tries to export democracy in every other place except its own allies that need it the most. There are even tax havens (global financial crime hotspots) like Monaco and nobody cares about the lack of democracy there. It’s a tragedy that Murica cares so much for the world that all these allies must wait until they also get some democracy. It’s an absolute tragedy.

Can you imagine someone ever saying that the Vatican is a theocracy? It literally is though. Or that Saudi Arabia or Brunei aren’t democracies? That’s easier. But try saying that Denmark and the Netherlands are also monarchies? Or that Iceland had to gain independence because it was basically a colony? Unthinkable. So it seems it’s perfectly fine having any system you want as long as you’re a US lapdog.

We could also think about Northern Ireland and why Murica doesn’t invade to liberate the Irish from the illegal Brit occupation, that would be even funnier since apparently Brits oppose landgrabs and imperialism on principle and since always hence why they got so involved in expanding NATO in Ukraine and opposed bad unfree capitalist republic no-monarchy Russia.

Expired Dome.

“The posts have sparked outrage among pro-foreign nation circles in Washington.” Can’t think of any other US ally including the no. 1 lapdog UK that would ever receive this royal treatment.

Having state enforced national narratives of unjust persecution (towards Israel, not just real historical anti-Semitism), blaming others for everything going badly, dehumanizing adversaries etc is bound to create this type of almost delulu social narcissism. “I’m the greatest victim” is the textbook manifestation of vulnerable subtype of narcissism. I wouldn’t pathologize a whole society normally but the overwhelming support for the ongoing genocide means at least functionally inhibited or reduced empathy and we need to learn from this.

Shift over?

More language issues, keyboard combat related stroke imminent. No great mind will be lost though.

Look who had the language issues all along. They really hire the absolute bottom of the barrel don’t they?

Does the chairforce have advanced technologies to prevent oiling up keyboards with cheeto dust? I hear it causes PTSD in servicemen.

Ok vaush. Hope the new ozempic shipment reaches the base within schedule because cholesterol and desk jobs is more lethal than conventional combat.

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”.

US foreign policy shill pretending to be a communist but defending Al Qaeda jihadis pretends not to know what question marks are.

So are you saying that your brainwashing is “objective” even though you’re a Fox News “communist”? All I’m asking for is consistency.

I love the conspiracy theory that Iran recruits the most useless and unhinged people like that right wing gun nut kid with the demolition ranch tee and the Ukraine nafo nut for ultra high stakes ops instead of anyone more capable. But I guess if bunker removed Bibi said it then it must be true.

Pro-religious thing you said? You’re here whining about the rights of monks to brainwash kids and Uyghur jihadis lmao.

You’ve been incapable of answering any of my questions so far and switched to one liners? Typical shill.

Too advanced for Eglin chairforce base tactical cheeto eaters.

Pro-religious propaganda communist, sure buddy. Crickets about everything else as usual.

Shutup vaush.

So you were pushing anti-communist propaganda all along and had all these cocksure anti-PRC beliefs already but disguised them as care for feudal theocratic brainwashing of minors? So you can’t really argue about literally anything I said like Tibet having a local government of Tibetan communists that you discount entirely because you’re an anticommunist shill and not because you care about anything other than manufacturing anti-PRC consent? So you do this using articles from explicitly pro-western propaganda sites like the one above but would never consider checking the other side and yet you call others “cock sure”? So you’re so clueless enough to mix up leninism with maoism even though neither invalidate Tibet having a Tibetan government anyway? So unless a nation is an ethnostate there’s oppression happening? So only voting for bougie duopoly parties every four years is “democratic” but open access to constant voting and decision making through local governments available to all citizens who want to get involved isn’t democratic because Murican crapitalism doesn’t operate like that? So you have far far less political representation than anyone in PRC but you want to yap about representation lmao? So you want to bring up the Uyghurs while the source for that is still crappy CIA propaganda and it’s actually about religious extremists that you otherwise lock up in Guantanamo when they turn against you? So you keep somehow siding with religious anti–freedom fanatics? So you’re so concerned about a state making sure that religious authorities don’t end up acting like a political Trojan horse while the West is constantly legislating censorship and repression and cracking down on demonstrations against real genocidal foreign policy and supporting genocidal colonial states? So you almost definitely have never done anything or even posted anything about the liberation of colonized Guam but yet you’re yapping about PRC being “imperialist” as if the Tibetans themselves aren’t part of their own administration? All I’m asking for is consistency!

I predict crickets like before. But let’s go deeper.

So you’re either clueless or a liar and don’t know that Chinese officials are literally all elected but you imagine who knows what sort of magical appointment by the ghost of Mao probably? So you’re almost definitely going to whine about lack of “legitimate” elections in the PRC because it’s a single party system as if having two parties that also vet and preapprove their candidates is better outside your propaganda? So you don’t know that all levels of government and the party itself are open and you don’t need millions to run unlike Murica, making them more democratic institutions because what you really want are pro-calitalist wreckers being allowed to run to turn China into a colony again so you can get cheaper goods in the west? So you clearly don’t care about nations (and not just ethnostates) having sovereignty because you want cheaper crap and global dominance for your side at the expense of everyone else? So westerners get to complain about supposedly other nations not having enough democracy while simultaneously complaining about their own parties stealing elections all the time lol?

I’ve got better ones.

So you complain about whataboutism when the Tibetan issue is literal whataboutism lmao?

Bestest one: So the only valid voices are religious extremists who support western propaganda ( and not the Chinese Han, Tibetans, Uyghurs etc who support their government because you know, they have healthcare, employment, religious freedom AND freedom FROM religion, womens’ rights and constantly increasing quality of life unlike the west that consistently loses all these things?

All I’m asking for is consistency.

Oh I forgot. So you either haven’t heard or pretend not to know about the oppressed fanatical jihadi Uyghurs active in Syria as Al Qaeda forces? So you’re saying that the PRC should embrace Al Qaeda because you clearly support and care about its members? We can talk about the Uyghurs all you want lol, it’s you who’ll dodge the subject.

What infighting? In the western bloc the banking-industrial capital is reaching new heights of consolidation but the only manufacturing that it can’t outsource over to SEA sweatshops is the arms industry because it’s all protected knowhow and technologies that can’t be outsourced. This constantly causes issues because outsourcing to neo-colonial hellholes with zero working rights is the preferred method of preventing a declining profit rate, and we’re talking about an industry that requires a unique form of government sponsored oligopoly - monopsony Frankenstein market so it’s basically massively artificial and kept afloat by constant military engagements to create more market activity otherwise production dies out. Competing geopolitical adversaries drive up continuous R&D so that throws a necessary lifeline to this monster.

There’s some removed due to banking-industrial consolidation and conglomeration because it erodes the mid-upper middle class of millionaires and millionaire wannabe investor/hustler ancap types that want to become Elon Musks with daddy’s 400k which all manifests in mass media noise because that’s the most important voting group (as the influencing class of everyone below and the default “voice of society”, the upper middle class is the class overlord of journalism, PMC, the academia, career politicians etc). But that’s just hyenas fighting over getting scraps from the big boss table, not a sign of infighting at the actual big boss table. Petite bourgeois infighting.

And internationally there are peripheral capitalist nationalisms plus geopolitical forced alliances to prevent global domination by the West. That could be legitimate infighting but it’s also artificial, without bougie capitalist states forcing their industries to act as national enterprises and not proceed to multinational expansion and merging with western multinationals (the consolidation I mentioned above) they’d also be peachy with international-western capital. All capital is by definition a future traitor of national projects and the ultimate doom of bougie politics.

It’s a huge shame that for some reason it’s just conspiracy theorists that mention Vanguard, State Str., BlackRock and Blackstone because they’re exactly the predicted consolidated-conglomerated mega-capital appearing at the height of capitalist historical development. Not abnormal at all, not a conspiracy, not a secret cabal, just fully predicted capital consolidation. The various primadonnas like Musk and Bezos are in the news because they’re thirsty for publicity, exposure and showing off but they don’t represent global capitalism. It’s these asset management companies that are the real core.

One of the best developments in decades was the West (through France) losing their neo-colonies in central-west Africa because it hurt western capital’s cheap resource extraction. The entire system is incredibly precarious and rests upon the periphery not turning socialist and cutting off cheap SEA labour and African/S. American/Asian resource plunder. Which is also lowkey why western media barely reported on Burkina Faso kicking out the French. If that holds, expands and turns meaningfully socialist it’s game over for capitalism.

Otherwise there are market fluctuations due to technological disruptions and market share redistribution but it’s just noise and mainly relevant to investors.

The WSWS Trotsks are addicted to trying the old opportunistic entryism tactic despite consistently becoming corrupted by CIA type libdemcap slogans. As soon as you bite the “Trump is an aberration” bait you’re instantly poisoned to think that some Democrat election victory is an improvement, somehow, vaguely. The whole idea of Trump exceptionalism is that Trump isn’t simply an uncouth, unpolished manager of western capitalism but otherwise exactly the same type of functionary but somehow different and worse as if multiple Trumps don’t control both parties as a class regardless of more polished public facing career politicians who aren’t as obnoxious as him. Basically politics on the level of liberal bougie aesthetics and what is palatable to some affluent urban elite. Some polished rabid interventionist like Obama or the Clintons is fine to them.

Trump should be seen as even more characteristic of the system itself, capitalism-imperialism without PR clothes, randomly opportunistic, chaotic, populist etc otherwise the trap of post-Trump “return to respectable capitalist normalcy” springs automatically.

Unfortunately as long as these views dominate then most energy is getting siphoned into the Democrat “humane imperialism/capitalism” scam, nobody will have to enforce dictatorships because there’s no organized interstate working class movement to threaten the system itself (only low level resistance to ICE and the intention to vote Dems next time) and more polished bougie liberal approved candidates will return. Same thing that happened after the 99% thing when Bernie acted as the bait for the same type of electoral politics scam.

Basically middle class bougie liberals are implicitly framing this as social class semantics, as class shame about internationally being represented by some pro-redneck populist that makes them look lower class (existential level problem for liberal social capital, can’t look bad through associations with uncultured bougies but a military-industrial complex puppet politician with 5 PhDs is perfectly desirable).

It’s lowkey a type of stress over making the real workings of the system too obvious and ruining manufactured consent so why the hell do the Trotsks also feed into this instead of framing Trump as an absolutely typical bourgeois overlord that is finally not hidden behind the PR curtain of professional politicians? They’re all exactly like that in function. Not to mention that the entire mainline discourse about Trump is great man theory of history in its most extreme.