You get the memes you deserve!
The B-plot in Ender's Game tells a compelling story of a couple of young adults nefariously posting their way straight into the Presidency. People want to believe this is how real life works so badly. They'll watch a plutocrat elevated by other plutocrats into an office historically held by plutocrats and conclude "Shitposters on the internet did this".
But to be fair Ender's Game was written in 1985, before the modern internet.
I mean with LLM's it's not hard to have an arbitrary amount of bots posing as users pushing a false consensus on political issues.
It's even easier when the bot accounts are used to falsify advertising data.
Shockingly accurate depiction of what bloggers think they're doing
If worked out pretty well for Curtis Yarvin, unfortunately.
For Theil, maybe. Howard Lutnick, definitely. But Yarvin and CatTurd2 are both just stuck bitching on the sidelines.
Surprise anyone who calls themselves a "nice guy" was never actually nice.
They always say shit like "at least I don't hit her" or "at least I'm not an alcoholic" while missing that those qualities are a given.
I think it's a form of narcissism where they can't handle that their personality is shitty so they project it into the world. They have to use outlandish examples because they're not such hot catches themselves.
I've been to The School of Hard knocks, The University of Life, and Facebook jail. Be very afraid

Look, buddy, if you think jerking off while playing Baldur's Gate 3 is "nothing" that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Meanwhile, War Thunder players be leaking classified documents on vehicles to prove that it isn't modeled correctly in-game.
Based behavior, they do it for the love of the game and being correct in online arguments.
You had me in the first half there.
I mean I'll take a stack of edgelordy over one tumblrina or Blue Skyer.
isn’t this the better outcome
dressing up in trench coats and shooting up their school is much worse
or attacking a church
You forgot bottom text.
Wasn't there some famous quote that went something like "the three things to fear are a moonless night, the sea in storm and the wrath of a gentle man"?
at some point when the armed armored squad busts down your door you will miss "the nice guy"
Precisely
I think its a little early still.
/s
Memes
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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
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