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In reply to the discussion: The real reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Glenn Greenwald at DU: [View all]Blue_Tires
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Or am I merely just a mindless O-bot who has to protect dear leader at all costs?
For the first time ever on DU last week, I got "checked" on my leftist bona fides...Is that truly how far this site has descended? Will this be the new normal now?
By all means, please keep going...Broadbrushing is always an easier way out than trying to discuss the issue like an adult...But I will say I'd hope you'd have the stones to accuse me directly instead of this beating-around-the-bush silliness...Life is too short and I do not have enough hours in my day...
You know the ultimate irony? By making this thread vaguely accusing certain unnamed DUers of being government spies/trolls/propagandists/whatever, you're unwittingly employing another astroturfing tactic, which is to foster widespread paranoia on a message board with cries of "infiltration!!" or something similar...This has a twofold purpose: 1. Eroding the collective unity of a site since less posters will trust or believe one another, and 2. Effectively discrediting your debate opponents, since once that seed of suspicion takes root and starts to spread, the default last word to every argument eventually becomes "Yeah, but you're an infiltrator so of course you'd say that!"
(FYI the message board trolling playbook has been around for a long, long time...We were discussing it when I first came to DU in '03)
EDIT: 93 recs and the OP is nowhere to be found...Can't say I'm surprised at either...