I don't know if that's a conspiracy since consent manufacturing is basically what capitalist countries are best at
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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Conspiracy theory in the sense that they are, in fact, conspiring lol
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If I were them I'd be terrified and hell bent on reframing this.
There is a regular phenomenon in this country of disaffected people committing random violence. It's usually directed at children, the last thing I would want is for everyone to realize that you could do the same thing, and also be universally regarded as a heroic figure, if you switch targets.
News comment sections are like 85% bots definitely
You're not far off since like fucking most of social media is fake accounts anyway.
Astroturfing is absolutely everywhere. It’s not that far-fetched at all.
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
Attributed to Jay Gould, been around since as early as 1893, so not a conspiracy theory in the least.
One of the guys on western kabuki talks about his time at a company that basically astroturfed for politicians and celebrities a few years ago and I think that shit is probably/definitely as widespread as you’d imagine it to be
Modern propaganda is distributed with bots and “relatable content” - so yes thats exactly what happening although I think its the state acting and not because a CEO complained solely.
One must also remember that most politicians are shareholders in some form or another.
Consent manufacturing machine goes brrrrrr
I mean maybe, but it’s more likely we’re in a bit of an echo chamber and most people heavily bought into whatever the MSM presented
No doubt, but I'm specifically referring to comment sections of news agency posts. I feel (very anecdotally) that it seemed like the reception was near universally positive in the immediate aftermath of the event and the day after, but checking the comments on newer posts from those same news media accounts today feels like a switch has flipped and the sentiments expressed are now much closer to a 50:50 positive to bootlicker ratio.
I don't know how accurate my observations are, and I partly posted this to see if others have noticed the same shift or if I am just extrapolating from too small of a sample size.
I’m very skeptical about “online is real life” rhetoric because as you alluded to, it’s just not a great sample size (you can’t assume the internet is American)
Yeah it’s so tough to tell because there are so many variables at play (emotion being a big one)
And a ton of people have been royally fucked over by private health insurance so I guess it comes down to whether their rage over that outweighs the rage brought about by their reactionary, political views