Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse

Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by ptaipale on Sunday February 21, 2016 @06:57AM (#11144167)

I think there is a common fallacy that people who you disagree with need to be paid by someone, otherwise they wouldn't be as they are.

I disagree with the poster but I'll grant that he may completely believe what he says and doesn't need to be paid in any way.

The same phenomenon works for pro-Russia trolls, for instance. I don't think they are "paid", particularly paid with money.

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by justincormack on Sunday February 21, 2016 @11:22AM (#11145068)

Sure they may genuinely believe what they have been told, but repressive regimes hiring commenters is pretty common now, perhaps not on hacker news.

I do not believe people have to be paid to disagree with me, that would be self centred delusion.

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by jdimov9 on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:21AM (#11144563)

I am very much pro-Russia. You got a problem with that?

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by ptaipale on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:55AM (#11144706)

No, I have a problem with pro-Russia (pro-Putin) trolls. Still, I don't think they are "paid".

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by ceejayoz on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:22AM (#11144824)

Some appear to be.

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Re:Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse by ptaipale on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:49AM (#11144918)

Quite, but I think that most who I meet are not.

Likewise, most of those who spread various 9/11 conspiracy theories are not paid by anyone, they are quite sincere.

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