r/technology • u/marketrent • 1d ago

Site altered title “ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA” -- California governor Newsom riles Republicans with Trump-trolling posts

https://www.barrons.com/news/meme-lord-newsom-riles-republicans-with-trump-trolling-posts-05b74794
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u/distung 1d ago

There’s a post with maybe 3-4 people discussing it. The bots probably don’t know how to engage yet. It’ll come along with talking points soon enough.

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u/AusGeno 1d ago

I searched the sub for Intel and sorted by recent and I only see one from yesterday before the 10% stake became official.

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u/GeneralRane 1d ago

None of the four people who make most of the posts have gotten around to it yet.

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u/ReignOnWillie 1d ago

Gotta love the format of:

Random article posted. Then OP (bot) posts a 4-5 sentence comment opinion of how great Trump is.

Rinse and repeat

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u/minche 1d ago

And if a discussion develops claim that the post is being brigaded

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u/Pretty_Biscotti 1d ago

I love that part, you have to go through a vetting process to check your a republican but still get so many “infiltrators”

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u/Sp11Raps 1d ago

Bro every time I end up in that sub it inevitably devolves into everyone pointing fingers at each other like the spiderman meme once any sort of nuanced take emerges. It's horrifyingly fascinating. It's like they see the point but jump it like a hurdle whenever they come close. They are so afraid to break ranks that anytime someone disturbs the echo chamber with a pebble that might become a ripple they jump each other like a pack of starving cannibals.

It honestly blows my mind in such a depressing way. Although lefties aren't exactly immune to this either. Although the disagreements I've seen are more liberal vs far-left. But apparently everyone hates moderates ha.

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u/Objective_Rush7162 1d ago

What makes you think it's a bot? I hate Trump as much as the next person, but this whole situation of accusing everyone and everything is being automated is getting out of hand when there is no evidence to back it up

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u/Naive-Significance48 1d ago

Seriously though. Some of them make dozens of posts a day to the one subreddit.

Then, you scroll through and see the same accounts over and over posting.

Didn't notice for a while.

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u/FactoryPl 1d ago

Most heavily moderated sub on the platform brought to you by the freedom of speech crowd.

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u/PuzzleheadedGroup624 1d ago

Brought to you by the GRU.

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u/apathy420 1d ago

I am banned from that sub and never once posted, which makes me think they actively patrol accounts that post in dissenting subreddits.

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u/ImperfectRegulator 1d ago

and the one anti abortion guy who is probably the only person I think might be real, but he's insane soooo

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u/p_k 1d ago

It's the weekend after all. Some of them aren't bots but hired propagandists. They're full time employees like us and have weekends off. They'll be back posting Monday morning, you'll see.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 1d ago

It makes sense, since they are always accusing the left of paid protesters that they are paying for supporters.

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u/733t_sec 1d ago

You'd think whoever is running these propaganda campaigns would have a weekend shift with monday tuesday off

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u/AccountantDirect9470 1d ago

They have never been smart.

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u/733t_sec 1d ago

I'm assuming some of them are run by foreign governments

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u/rpkarma 1d ago

If they were smart, they wouldn’t be conservatives. 

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u/733t_sec 1d ago

I'm assuming some of them are run by foreign governments

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u/TopVegetable8033 1d ago

Russia is a different time zone, they probably were sleeping. 

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u/distung 1d ago

Not sure if it was deleted. I saw the one you mentioned plus one more earlier today about the official news. Both with only a couple of comments.

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u/Arkeband 1d ago

their favorite thing to post is “they’re brigading us!” when a really stupid take gets downvoted and is divisive even among the hogs.

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u/wtftocallmyself 1d ago

Plenty of alarmist immigrant stories but ..smh

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u/helloworldpat 1d ago

Always the same, one person (that is not white and not Christian) did something bad - “see I told yall, dems don’t wanna see the truth, kick all of them out!”

My favourite takes the last few days from their sub: “Newson promised to end homelessness to end 10 years ago and nothing happened” - all while Trump promised to end the Russia Ukraine war in one day “Maxwell herself said Trump is innocent and they will still not be happy with it” - bro don’t even know where to start with that one

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u/buckyb4dg3r 1d ago

All of their arguments can easily be counter arguments.

The Maxwell thread had a comment that basically said “well if Maxwell said Trump was incriminated, Dems would have said she was truthful!”

Wait, wouldn’t you just do the reverse and claim she’s a felon and perjured herself many times before?

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u/Garbitch69420 1d ago

It's such a bizarre place. You'll find a good chunk of "rational" comments on a post about something unhinged Trump says or does, that say he's going too far, it's a waste of time, whatever. Then the magats calling those people liberals get downvoted and cry brigade. Then the next post is like "Yeah I'm super mega pro Trump" and it's equally upvoted. Is it collective split personality or is it just all bots

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u/IniNew 23h ago

There's 100% people in there that are "This is too far. This isn't the role of the federal government."

And there's 100% people in there that call them fake conservatives and feel like any action is justified because liberals are literally the devil.

And there's 100% bots that play both sides of that engagement to sow more anger.

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u/NNKarma 1d ago

Not only stupid, but also demonstrably fake, except that we don't have the ability to show the facts

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u/PM_ME_UR_QUINES 1d ago

Indeed any link, from any subreddit, no matter how small, and they'll reference it and say they're being brigaded. Simply whisper their existence and they scream in fear.

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u/danglotka 1d ago

If you look at comment count theres actually a lot more. They just censor anything they dont like

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u/WhoDat-2-8-3 1d ago

90 % of the comments there are shadowbanned haha

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u/iambatmon 1d ago

Holy shit you’re right. Every now and then I’ll see a headline about some horrible thing Trump did, and I’ll go to the cons subreddit to see what they’re saying and there’s a barely upvoted post with 2-3 somewhat reasonable people talking about it, then it fizzles and I’m like what? And I’ll check again in a day or two when it’s already kind of old news and there’s a FLURRY of hard trumpers parroting the same bullshit. You’re totally right it’s just bots waiting for their orders

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u/tom-branch 1d ago

They're waiting on their instructions.

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 1d ago

They need their damn talking points or they dont know what to think. Imagine if they reacted now and got it wrong. They would be ousted.

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u/360_face_palm 1d ago

i just imagine the bots all erroring asking for input from their masters

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u/trail34 1d ago

They’ll eventually say it was a bold move to protect American industries in the interest of national security. If dems point out that this is socialism they will pretend to not understand what that word means and will say “see, they are just saying we are socialists because they are socialists. It’s all projection. They are anti-American hypocrites”. 

I’ve come to accept that you just can’t make progress with willful ignorance. 

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u/3-DMan 22h ago

I think Epstein posts are verboten now, they had one mega-post for a hot minute and it's gone now

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u/GambitTheBest 1d ago

The bots are the ones on r/all and all the other astroturfed subs that doesn't reflect the voting reality, which is why Kamala lost