I often believe that many of these comments are unironically Russian bots lol. I’ve seen similar things the comments of local news videos. Like some guy gets arrested for something, then a random comment from a supposed liberal bringing up trump and January 6. These are either intelligence ops to create accounts with history and paper trails, or a DNC op to create accounts with history to push propaganda later
Honestly, if I was trying to manipulate online discourse to deliberately cause as much political turmoil as possible, not only would I do agitprop for the far left and far right to anger the other side, I would also make sure to post a large amount of centrist propaganda that is callously dismissive of legitimate issues and suggest that foreign manipulation is part of it. That would both piss off at least one side (depending on the issue) and cast doubt on the idea that foreign manipulation is actually even happening in the first place.
I often believe that many of these comments are unironically Russian bots lol. I’ve seen similar things the comments of local news videos. Like some guy gets arrested for something, then a random comment from a supposed liberal bringing up trump and January 6. These are either intelligence ops to create accounts with history and paper trails, or a DNC op to create accounts with history to push propaganda later
Honestly, if I was trying to manipulate online discourse to deliberately cause as much political turmoil as possible, not only would I do agitprop for the far left and far right to anger the other side, I would also make sure to post a large amount of centrist propaganda that is callously dismissive of legitimate issues and suggest that foreign manipulation is part of it. That would both piss off at least one side (depending on the issue) and cast doubt on the idea that foreign manipulation is actually even happening in the first place.