There is one going on in this very thread.
Several people keep referring to the "Democrat" party instead of the "Democratic" party.
Shortening it to Democrat was a Rethuglican tactic that, rhetorically, eliminates the idea the party is linked to the ideal rather than just a label.
PETA has to be one.
The one I realized was the Hillary Clinton hate.
Like I get it, she's not an ideal person and there's lots of reasons why you would want a different politician to be in charge of the country.
But the job was to pick the lesser of two evils and America failed, and that is in no small part due to the massive Hillary hate campaign.
To this day people still get irrationally angry when you mention her. That's how effective it was. It's fucking insane.
I've seen my local/regional subreddits froth at the mouth over her. First of all she's not even in the same country. Second, the comment sections are rarely that rabid over actual local issues.
It leads me to believe those are bots or they fell for the psyop. I think it's probably close to 50/50.
I think it explained a good number of odd commenting behaviors I've seen. Troll farms probably operate across multiple sectors. The Hillary narrative is probably one they're most familiar with, to a second nature.
Also, I think that's a keyword that draws trolls like sharks to blood.
Pelosi was the same too, and the gop has done just as much if not worst than she does, notice how gop insider trading is never televised one bit?. they played the mysogyny bit very well against pelosi and hillary.
It was her fucking campaign that is partly to blame for Trump winning. Look up the leaked Pied Piper candidates memo.
They saw Trump as strategically easier to beat so they planned to "elevate" his campaign among others... What that amounted to exactly is anyone's guess but it's clear they are partly to blame for him even becoming a popular presidential candidate.
Then they went in like the Clinton dynasty had it in the bag, and she fucking lost. And now we have this huge fucking mess.
Her campaign is a massive symptom of what went wrong with the Democratic party, and when it all went to shit.
her campign dint try hard enough to reach more people, harris copied her campaign strategy ver batim.
Hillary Clinton needs to shut the fuck up. 2016 is now in the distant past but the Clintons are grossly offensive democrat baggage that make the Democrat party seem out of touch and corrupt.
Hillary Clinton is a loser. She has no good opinions. The fact that her opinions are taken seriously is part of the geriatric stupidity of the Democrat party.
Again: Hillary Clinton failed. She doesn't know what works because what she did didn't work. Her opinions are boomer garbage and listening to boomers is how we got here.
Respect for Elders is not a suicide pact. Geriatrics like Hillary think they are part of the solution, but they're the problem.
do you think the US would be a worse place today, if she were elected in 2016?
we wouldve avoided trumps 1st term, which set up for 2020 with a bad candidate like biden, he got lucky because of covid.
Given that the movement she represents is the reason Bernie was pushed aside, I do think there are some good reasons for negativity. Aiming it at her personally however, is dumb.
Her campaign was the beginning of the end for the DNC. They "elevated" the Pied Piper candidates ie Trump then trashed their own Democrats, Bernie. Then they trashed Bernie supporters and told them to fall in line after that bullshit.
It was her campaign that basically marked the end of an era and a huge part of why so many people want Democratic party reform. So much trust was lost after all that. It wasn't baseless. I don't hate her, but I do fucking blame her for being a massive part of a shitty campaign that got Trump elected. It's one thing to lose, but it's another to elevate the worst and most racist candidate you can.
Considering your last comment before this is one calling the NY Times a center left media I'm gonna say you've fallen for plenty.
A general mistrust in news media is also a psy ops.
Blindly believing what an "established media source" says without sources is also a psy op.
All US mainstream broadcast stations have been absorbed by the oligarchy
a operations?
The recent channel 5 interview with Maggie Freleng also has me wondering this
playing in the culture wars, comments of news/politics section of any platform or video. its part of that.
I'm always tempted to say lines starting with "@grok" when someone says something stupid. It's in a mocking way, but it doesn't matter. Using it as the default to make fun of AI in general is still promoting it.
Isn't your comment right now doing it too then
I mean they have to explain it somehow.
Everything is psy-ops
I mean, not really. But I went and added some pronouns anyway.
I was just listening to a podcast about grok!
IDK, probably a lot.
бывает. мы же везде. не надо себе чувствовать плохо.
If you're a capitalist then your whole life is a psyop
If you don't actually own any capital, you aren't a capitalist, you're a worker with stockholm syndrome.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.