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/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.