Exactly. A lower volume place like this just needs to have one person that also trolls multiple other sites at the same time. It's not like conversation is flying here. It would be a real, low effort thing to troll these forums as a foreign operative that's part of a larger, dedicated disinformation unit.
Cheerleaders are the majority. No actual value, just a lot of jumping up and down and shouting, along with a desperate need for empty vindication.
Depends on how you classify it. We have people on here purposefully spreading Russian disinformation, that's simply an objective fact. As to WHY they are doing it, that's open to interpretation.
How you approach someone who says things because they are misguided is different than how you approach someone who is deliberately lying to you. One person has the presumption of good faith and the other doesn't.
To treat them with care, one must first beat them to seize power over them.
Even if we don't have direct contact with professional trolls, plenty of people will launder stuff in to discuss because they saw it elsewhere.
It’s very normal to think that way. But the way I look at it is that ignorance and deceptive behavior are motivated by the same need, a need not to feel deep inner pain. Wherever there is suppressed inner pain there is guilt, remorse, and rage. Depending on individual circumstance and degree, one person may successfully function behind a socially approved ego and another not so much. The degree here will determine variations in a satisfaction with self deception and a life devoted to revenge.
Perhaps you didn't catch that I was talking about people who are physically ill. You go to the doctor because you expect care not to be beaten. What you fail to understand because you don't know yourself is that you can somehow cure mental illness that is the result of childhood trauma by subjecting them to more of it. You think this way because your ego is your defense against self introspection, the way you repress your past, what you think of as being mentally healthy, the condition you adopted to avoid further traumatic experience. You suffer Stockholm Syndrome and think the cure for it is to beat others like you were beaten. This is the paradox of being nuts. Beat the mentally ill down before they explode with everything you fear will explode in you if you were to see how you really feel. You have everything upside down inside out and backwards. You are a member of the tribe of the conformed railing against tribalism. Been there done that, sorry, it empty of the joy of being, and still fall into it regularly.
Dude has probably consumed more Russian propaganda than every liberal on this board put together.
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