I'm fascinated by how places like reddit and 4chan end up catching the attention of spooks and stupid think tanks operated by the children of billionaire ghouls. They're, like you said, mostly full of scatterbrained and internet obsessed tech nerd young men, so the sites are full of everything they like. Memes, anime, programming, little tickytacky hobbies, self-aggrandizing posts about stories that never happened where they seem cool and reasonable, stupid nerd shit like marvel and star wars, and so so so much porn. Mountains of porn. Outright sexualizarion of minors not too long ago.
And it's someone's job to wade through all that to trick these guys into aligning their brains with American foreign policy.
I'm also fascinated by just how internet centric a lot of their politics are. Anything that restricts or combats what they do online is the worst possible moral outrage, probably one of the reasons they talk about China so much.
Rich people have a lot of free time, so some spend it on the internet posting. A lot of those children of spooks/journalists also go to the same colleges, or run in the same elite circles as the tech bros on Reddit as well, so they learn about these things.
Also, these sites only really caught their attention when they started interfering with real life. No one gives a shit until you make noise (recent elections, Wall Street Bets, etc).
I'm fascinated by how places like reddit and 4chan end up catching the attention of spooks and stupid think tanks operated by the children of billionaire ghouls. They're, like you said, mostly full of scatterbrained and internet obsessed tech nerd young men, so the sites are full of everything they like. Memes, anime, programming, little tickytacky hobbies, self-aggrandizing posts about stories that never happened where they seem cool and reasonable, stupid nerd shit like marvel and star wars, and so so so much porn. Mountains of porn. Outright sexualizarion of minors not too long ago.
And it's someone's job to wade through all that to trick these guys into aligning their brains with American foreign policy.
I'm also fascinated by just how internet centric a lot of their politics are. Anything that restricts or combats what they do online is the worst possible moral outrage, probably one of the reasons they talk about China so much.
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yea like they take that kind of thing so deadly serious and with such vigor instead of you know like rampant homelessness
Rich people have a lot of free time, so some spend it on the internet posting. A lot of those children of spooks/journalists also go to the same colleges, or run in the same elite circles as the tech bros on Reddit as well, so they learn about these things.
Also, these sites only really caught their attention when they started interfering with real life. No one gives a shit until you make noise (recent elections, Wall Street Bets, etc).