There’s a campaign going on to push the idea that Democrats are changing sides after watching Charlie Kirk videos. Interestingly, even though the bots are posting the exact same copy-pasted message, they seem to be controlled by an AI, since they will respond to comments, and even basic techniques for outing an AI (like “ignore all previous instructions” comments) work against them. So the first post is hardcoded, but they’re using an LLM for the responses.
If I had a dollar for every Republican claiming they were a Democrat until The Democrats Went Too Far, I’d have about $70M
All blue check marks. Anyone who’s actually paid for verification on Twitter is most likely a bot completely reversing it’s point. Someone without a check mark is more likely to be a real person.
Actually, it is 100% certain that anyone posting on Twitter is either a bot or a troll. Once you realize that, it’s easy to completely walk away from Twitter.
Looks like we need to pressure more off.
That’s how you do it… any time someone references twitter let them know that you don’t consider that a reputable source since it is all trolls and bots.
I wish Zelensky wasn’t on Twitter so much :/
No, there still are real people on twitter, unfortunately, particularly elites and journalists who were the main reason why twitter ever mattered. Anyone else though can safely assumed to be bots if they have a blue check mark.
If they don’t have a blue check mark then they don’t have paid api access, meaning their either an extremely advanced bot system that can circumvent twitters bot prevention, or they’re a real person.
Meta - it’s sort of cynically amusing that, as a generalization, the right has tended to lag behind in taking advantage of modern communication tools that generally presume a good faith effort at telling the truth - like Wikipedia - but have so easily leapt to the forefront of the newest dynamic in online communication - lying with AI.
You don’t get followers and profit with Wikipedia
Huh… that’s a good point
I’ve been thinking lately about the seemingly natural proclivity for right-wing dishonesty - the fact that conservatism is built on lies - that society was better off on the past, that they can return society to that nominally better past, and that they do return society to that nominally better past - and the fact that right-wing economics is similarly built on lies - that society benefits when resources are withheld from the poor and concentrated among the rich, that the market can and will regulate itself…
I hadn’t considered the profit angle though - that the right generally is more sensitive to and ready and willing to do whatever it takes to take advantage of profit-making opportunities and the left is relatively poorly equipped to beat them at that game…
So it’s even worse than I thought…
It’s very interesting to read what you think they think. It’s not. It’s what someone like you or I would think if we were put into their position, but we were still, basically, the good, unselfish people capable of empathy that we are now.
That’s why it’s so hard for you to wrap your head around it: they are not like us. They think inwardly, only of themselves, and will pursue their own ambition and profit, regardless of the negative effects on others. They believe they are owed this, and if someone can’t achieve it, it’s not because they didn’t try hard enough: is because there is something more wrong with them, and they deserved a sale. That’s why they don’t like helping poor people: poor people are poor because they are weak, and they deserve their fate. That’s what they think.
If you keep in mind that this is the mindset, they approach every situation with, why they behave the way they do makes much more sense.
Edit: more info
The Alt-Right Playbook - Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism
That’s actually most of why I mentioned the economic lie that society benefits when resources are withheld from the poor.
It’s a thing I’ve been growing aware of alongside the right-wing tendency toward dishonesty - there’s a sort of overlap between the general lack of empathy and concern for others and the tendency toward dishonesty.
In a sense, holding the position that society should strive to equitably distribute resources is a simple bit of honesty, while the position that the rich deserve to hoard however much they can accumulate is fundamentally a lie. It’s not even really just a matter of differing viewpoints - it’s a break between a relatively objective and verifiable truth and a relatively objective and verifiable lie.
But yes - even with that, it’s likely that I underestimate the effect. I long ago recognized that there was a fundamental toxic self-centeredness and sincere lack of empathy among notably ambitious and acquisitive people that was completely alien to me, but it’s so completely alien that I still have to regularly remind myself (or be reminded) of that fact.
The reason there are so dishonest is because they wrap their hypocrisy in such moral superiority that it creates enough, cognitive dissonance to make a person‘s head explode. So they lie. They lighter themselves, they lied to everyone else, and this delusion— they create a shared delusion between all of them because they’re all incredibly shitty people that constantly do terrible things who believe they are incredibly good people doing the right thing. The only way to make that make any sense to anyone is to lie about it constantly. Because these people lack not only empathy, they lack the capability for self reflection.
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
Kill yourself
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
Kill yourself
conservatism is built on lies
This is something Hitler talked about quite openly in his second (unpublished) book. Ironically enough, it was completely true.
r/conservative has a post everyday how “The woke left has finally pushed me away!” and it’s just somebody describing how they were always conservative from the getgo
Just like the hate religion that kirk represented, they need to lie and distort reality to gain members. Just giving people their history and current goals only appeals to insane people. They have to lie. They must lie to survive.
Don’t believe the “were against hate, we’re all peace, love, and a fictional jebus!” That’s the lie that funds their hate. Stop following and funding hate religions.
Down with religion!
I mean, this is the same tactic that got Charlie Kirk and TPUSA popular in the first place. None of that shit was organic.
That seems to be happening on reddit too
…why? Do they think this will help them somehow? What could it possibly do, convert the last remaining non-right wingers left on Twitter?
It’s to make already right wing people more emboldened. If they think everyone agrees with them, they’ll be more outward about their hate
Look up False Consensus Bias. Humans naturally assume they’re in the majority, this just adds a layer of confirmation bias to that mix, lol.
The masses are very sheepish. Read enough of your fellow party ilk has gone a different way, then you start to question it.
Also, easy AI campaign to spin up GOP base. Then they can report “Dems changing their mind about Charlie Kirk” here is our Twitter/X proof
Lying works too often.
The more I’ve seen about Charlie Kirk, after his death, the more I dislike him. (Also a Democratic voter).
I’ve been a Democratic voter my whole life, but when I heard Charlie Kirk talk about how black people are naturally stupid and violent and taking white mens jobs, and how queer people should be stoned to death, and how Biden should be executed for reasons, I decided to register Republican.
Tap for spoiler
Because doing so buys me time to escape this place before they come for me.
/s
Are you sure @HARDforTRUMP and @stopRINOkemp aren’t real democrats?
Dang – we should probably all talk about that guy instead of the Epstein files
DAE WE SHOULD HAVE A DAY OF SAD SAD FOR CHARLIE BECAUSE HE WAS A MAN OF HONOUR!!ONEELEVEN11!
“Yeah i voted harris, but the way that nazis throat exploded was a thing of beauty. I want that for myself, too.”
I mean…who the hell uses xitter anyway?
Sir, the restrooms are for paying customers only.
That whole place is a toilet.
The most disgusting toilet in all of Scotland.
Xitter: hold my shit.
most accounts on twitter and other social media are bots and ads. reminds me of dead internet theory
And real humans posting in bad faith. The internet effectively died when the rot of bad faith right wing posters had metastasized.
Reading Twitter is a bit tiring. I block like a hundred blue checkmarks every time. There used to be a firefox extensions that does this automatically, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work anymore.
