I'm pretty weary of calling something an op. Oh, I'm suspicious - perhaps even paranoid - about quite a lot of things. I just don't like to declare something without the certainty of evidence.
However
this is an op
maybe not this post exactly; but this mindset, this trend certainly must have astroturfed origins be it public or private
the real "op" is that it's bait, trolling, inflammatory statements made for attention. whether or not they actually believe it or think they can justify it, they are saying it because they know it will get people to interact with them and make their little internet micropolitics seem very serious and dangerous and relevant to the labor movement.
the contradiction of the dunk tank is that we're doomed to always be giving power to the worst discourses imaginable. I've said before that COINTELPRO is obsolete because corpo social media performs the same function without any input from the enemy, turning its users' revolutionary potential against phantasms and conditioning them to seek short term emotional gratification, and like this is what i mean. it's interpassivity algorithmically tuned to capture every productive impulse and turn it into consumer metrics for advertisers.
like the fact that their arguments consist almost entirely of putting paper doll accessories on the soy wojak face should make it obvious: the point isn't to convince anyone, it's to get you mad. Like I'm scrolling their feeds and it couldn't be any more obvious that this is a game to them (which, yeah, it's twitter). I'm also discovering that apparently they count lesswrongers as their enemies too. pretty funny. it's like kids on the playground teaming up to throw acorns at each other, very important, intensely political stuff.
I'm pretty weary of calling something an op. Oh, I'm suspicious - perhaps even paranoid - about quite a lot of things. I just don't like to declare something without the certainty of evidence.
Howeverthis is an op
maybe not this post exactly; but this mindset, this trend certainly must have astroturfed origins be it public or private
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When the patsoc is sus :sus-soviet:
genuinely, yes, i a very bad at it
the real "op" is that it's bait, trolling, inflammatory statements made for attention. whether or not they actually believe it or think they can justify it, they are saying it because they know it will get people to interact with them and make their little internet micropolitics seem very serious and dangerous and relevant to the labor movement.
the contradiction of the dunk tank is that we're doomed to always be giving power to the worst discourses imaginable. I've said before that COINTELPRO is obsolete because corpo social media performs the same function without any input from the enemy, turning its users' revolutionary potential against phantasms and conditioning them to seek short term emotional gratification, and like this is what i mean. it's interpassivity algorithmically tuned to capture every productive impulse and turn it into consumer metrics for advertisers.
like the fact that their arguments consist almost entirely of putting paper doll accessories on the soy wojak face should make it obvious: the point isn't to convince anyone, it's to get you mad. Like I'm scrolling their feeds and it couldn't be any more obvious that this is a game to them (which, yeah, it's twitter). I'm also discovering that apparently they count lesswrongers as their enemies too. pretty funny. it's like kids on the playground teaming up to throw acorns at each other, very important, intensely political stuff.
:gold-communist: :this: