thank you for saying this skskkssk. Occam’s razor: is it more likely that foreign psy-ops have incredibly poor cost-benefit analysis skills (while excelling in everything else), or that a couple dozen people have deeply held beliefs that led them to be vocal in the midst of tragedy?

call me crazy but the latter narrative makes a lot fewer assumptions.

if they are running a psyop its probably a secondary effect of psyopping twitter or some shit, leaking over to here in a more genuine fashion.

Literal astroturfing, if you will, what the definition of astroturfing actually is lmao.

You’d reach more people on bigger platforms, but it is easier to steer the conversation with smaller groups. So I don’t think its totally clear-cut where the best psyops targets would be.

Psyops are everywhere

Oh, don’t worry, the conspiracy theory is capable of making sense of any incongruities like that, just like OP can explain away the fact that we didn’t actually disappear as predicted. You see, this is where the Russian bots practice their techniques and try out different lines before deploying them on a larger scale.

It’s not based on evidence or reason so the believers will never be convinced based on evidence or reason, same as any other conspiracy theory.

That is the exact mindset they are looking for.

Americans have very short attention spans.

They are stupid enough to astroturf the whole lemmyverse with their election bullcrap (9 posts out of 10 on the frontpage were about their idiotic elections) and then whine it attracts attention from foreigners like myself.

I think the worst ones being the canadians and other germans larping as americans.