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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I think it's a combination of thought terminating cliche and in-group signifier.

    "You're a bot/Russian agent" completely dismisses everything you have said and could possibly said and shuts down the conversation. It's a textbook thought terminating cliche. They can throw your entire argument out while protecting themselves from cognitive dissonance.

    And then it also signals to their fellow libs that they can disengage, the enemy has been discovered and dealt with, we have won, blah blah blah. If anyone questions it or continues engaging they're undertaking a very small risk of being challenged by their fellow libs ie "why are you arguing with them, it's just a bot, come back to our safe lib spaces where we will talk about the GDP and nato's new cluster bomb that mulches 3% less infants".