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In reply to the discussion: EXCLUSIVE: Sealed Indictment granted against Donald Trump [View all]anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)For some reason the Mensch grump-a-lump trolls show up in force every single weekend nowadays, especially Saturdays, contribute nothing positive (imho of course -- their threads are just filled with depressing posts about how our thinking is worthless and their threads contain nothing helpful or constructive -- constructive posts include analyses or ideas for any action such as calling one's congress critter or senator, sending emails and listing email addresses so that we can contact various officials, etc). They seem to have zero faith in the simple and true notion that DUers are capable of reading, and evaluating for themselves, material from sources like Mensch's twitter feed without losing all contact with reality 🙄
I also have noticed the total doom and gloom outlook of the weekend crowd: the anti-Mensch "concern trolls" bray like eeyore about how all of the DUers and dems in general just need to stop talking about impeachment (!) and give up when it comes to Trump being impeached or even held accountable in some serious way for his traitorous behavior. Some of them seem to do anything they can to shit on her credibility (the old "poisoning the well" fallacy) and scold us in very pedantic ways about how we shouldn't believe "everything we read on the internet" (sigh) -- because, you know, DUers are not capable of rational thought and basic reading comprehension AMD the ability to remain sceptical about a source and to evaluate it carefully, in context.
Anyway I am resorting more to "ignore" these days than I ever did in the past -- but I just feel that the negativity is not helpful and we really need positive, constructive energy right now -- not to mention the fact the Trump's people paid a gazillion Russian trolls. They weren't all just Russian of course but many were/are Russian, and they all were to fight anyone online who made a negative remark against their god in addition to attacking pro-left online sources and trying to bury websites that supported Hillary or Bernie. They had a strategy to bury the pro-left sites and YouTube channels and raise the pro-Donald sites by giving them exponentially more hits through various forms of trickery.
I mean my god the subreddit on reddit that is devoted to Donald Trump, well, just don't go there - "The Donald" worship and of course drooling over Ivanka and Melania is unreal on there. Comical even, the most absurd spin and absurdist political theater that would make Brecht turn over in his grave, like Baghdad Bob. The site's silly graphics look like something someone designed in North Korea. I think a lot of the subreddit posters are Russian paid posters, seriously, since one of the reddit employees noticed various odd discrepancies that wouldn't show up in a "normal" Reddit account. They also word their comments very strangely at times; they are not likely native English speakers. Apparently too it's been said that they put posts through google translator.
Anyway, apologies for the rant!!! There were a bunch of "I am sooooooo concerned about Louise Mensch and poor, gullible, DUers" threads yesterday and it was really bothering me. And now I don't understand why the thread w/the link to RawStory was locked.
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