i’m trying to ignore the well meaning lib reaction to the us midterms but holy shit this one gobsmacked me. they live in a different fucking world
genuinely how and why can they possibly believe this
Data scientists have shown there was no decrease in far right content on social media after the Russian data center got blown up. There sure appears to have been an uptick in pro-Ukraine content though.
Have been been any studies to determine if there’s a link between far right content online and data centers being built in the US? Probably not. The cia would probably disappear anyone who tried to publish one.
In other words, “russian bots” narration is a projection like always
I vaguely remember Reddit having a “here’s where people post from” thing a few years ago. They had to take it down because ~1/3 of them were from Virginia (where the US government data-centers are).
I may be mis-remembering misinfo though, so anyone feel free to correct me.
You are correct except that it wasn’t a data center in Virginia, it was an Air Force base in Florida, specifically Eglin AFB.
https://hexbear.net/post/59518 More info on it there including an archived version of the post.
More like Dirt_Awesome_Possum!
Thanks
anytime.
Yeah. The bot traffic from those data centers is things like web crawlers and indexers, api calls for web services, database lookups and such. Web infrastructure kind of service bots doing boring work behind the scenes.
The Ukraine/Anti-Russia propaganda is genuinely the single most successful bit of US propaganda I can think of. So many libs both in the US and throughout the west have just completely lost the plot, it was so well orchestrated with major celebrities all loudly giving support. But it might be too successful, it might’ve just full on broken their brains and everything now needs to be framed in this “Russia bad but Ukraine protects us from them” worldview, even as Ukraine actively collapses and the western press is forced to admit that Ukraine’s leadership were just a bunch of Nazi thugs the entire time.
A lot of people have been thinking about the eventuality that these libs will all eventually start insisting “they never supported Ukrainian and Zelensky” but a scarier idea might be that they will never actually admit that, and might just be permanently stuck in this Ukraine mindset, even as Ukrainian neo-nazi terrorists attack people throughout Europe they’ll still insist that they’re all secretly Russian and Russia has just “infiltrated” or “brainwashed” anyone who says otherwise.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about libs in the last couple of years it’s that their ability to deny reality and contort whatever they see to fit into their preconceived bizzaroworld worldview is infinitely elastic.
Eventually I think it might just drive them mad.
“There’s no such thing as a right-wing American. The only people who would think otherwise must be bots!”
Have you EVER actually lived in the US? Like almost everywhere you go it’s someone talking about how they want minorities dead.
Russia-gate libs are still a thing. Trump being gay for Putin is still a meme being circulated by them. They
on anything that’s critical of Dems or Ukraine still.Just completely blue MAGA
If you try to tell them Iran started the blue wave, they will likely be pissed, but Zel is still a hero for them.
The republicans lost because Iran destroyed oil prices
They hear “bots” and they assume it’s computers posting on social media. Tech literacy is at an all time low. It has become magic to these people at this point.
Well AI has really kicked off.
The bots are a mix of poor humans, static copy-pasting bots, dynamic LLMs, and well-paid influencers.
But to be clear, almost none of that has been affected at all by these data centers going down. The bot traffic from those data centers had nothing to do with that.
It’s not that kind of bot traffic.
I can answer that since I was similar to this in high school, you simply dont see it. Theres so much bullshit going on, too much holy shit, that libs do have a bubble they live in. The oligarchs didnt spend the last 50 years buying up global media for nothing. The good news is a lot of these people in reality when you talk to then can be guided more left. But dont take this wrong, the brunch treatler types are the most common in the US.
It’s because for a lot of people politics are largely performative and used by Americans to feed their inherent need to act like they’re better than everyone else no matter what their leaning is.
Being an American who cares about Politics within the treat-spectacle bubble probably means you’re being paid, or you have too much free time and want to be applauded for watching a sport. I’m self conscious of this and definitely have justified following what at the end of the day is a TV show in similar ways. If you want to stay informed, keep it within the context of real organizing or historical study, and don’t get lost in the kayfabe.
the brunch treatler types are the most common in the US.
Insert “video games suck now” Youtube video number 73 billion.
incredible that nothing ever happens except by the will of putin or by thwarting the will of putin
The widest character in existence
this is why the railroad track gauge is so wide in russia, to be able to transport their leaders
Main character syndrome, but reversed. Main antagonist syndrome?
we are all NPCs in putin’s world
All the world’s Kremlin,
And all the men and women merely agents.
It’s going to take a Ukrainian Nazi shooting up a USAan mall to get these people to change their minds
Consensus reality is dead
if that happens they will probably spend all their energy asking questions about whether he was actually a trans muslim
:yea:
A mall would be nowhere near enough. Bin Laden, another former ally, did 9/11 then wrote a letter to the U.S. about why he did it and that still wasn’t enough to get through to people.
wasn’t it just like last year that there was a huge thing on twitter when a bunch of zoomers finally read Bin Laden’s letter and were like “why was this hidden from us”
He shouldn’t have written it down
USAans don’t/can’t read
I need blue anon to fuck off, but it’ll probably get worse before it gets better. No idea what their jan 6 would be though given they lack a basic backbone.
they’re going to gather on the steps of the capitol building for one last vote
they live in a different fucking world
this is the key, everyone is in their own media silo now so the Blue MAGA libs are contained within their echo chamber wnere you never have to see or hear them except for the occasional lemmy lib wandering in here
They are truly a cult at this point
They don’t seek truth from facts. Simple as that.
I just want to turn this Yandex data center on its head by insisting to Libs that we are keeping Trump CIA disinformation bots off of social media by stopping the construction of American data centers.
No I think it’s cuz people really hate Trump
Tragically I think they don’t really care much about him. They hate that prices have gone up. If he had done the exact same stuff but had lowered gas prices they’d be fine with him.
This fact is honestly part of why I’m such a doomer.
They could let it slide that Trump is a convicted SAer and an obvious pedophile who started a war with Iran after promising no new wars, refused to release the full unredacted Epstein Files after promising to do so, or that his party passed a bill effectively legalising AI generated CSAM so long as it “doesn’t use the faces of real children”, but gas prices increasing is what is too far for them.
The West is cooked.
Unlimited cooking on the west
Eh, I haven’t done a ton of research on this but I’ve seen some analysis suggesting that it’s more that:
1: Texas is a lot more urban and diverse now. They usually countered that via gerrymandering but gerrymandering can only off set the effect so much.
2: Trump has totally lost the conservative Hispanic vote which used to help him out in the southwest a lot.
If they did they would try to distance their policies from him. They would take a cold hard look at what America’s current policies on everything is and take the hard opposite stance. But they never do that. They always hedge and say the left goes too far and that they need to compromise and reach across the aisle. People who “really hate trump” outside of kayfabe don’t do that
