Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by galangalalgol on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:18PM
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Which sides were the shills in that story? Was it the alt-right "thah! This is what ya get without the thin blue line" or the fixie riding tankies saying "everything is perfect, I've never even heard of crime here before, and the whole place smells like fresh clean ocean breeze!"
Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by woodruffw on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:27PM
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At least in the NYC subreddit, we have a consistent group of a few dozen people who blame Alvin Bragg for every single thing that happens in the city. Never mind the fact that he’s only the Manhattan DA; you’ll see the same handles blame him for random crimes that happen in other boroughs.
Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by pclmulqdq on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:12PM
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Bragg is an easy target, because he's clearly there to advance his career, and gets behind podiums a lot. He likes the attention.
Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by woodruffw on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:23PM
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Okay, but that doesn’t really change what I’ve said: it simply doesn’t make sense to blame the Manhattan DA for crime in other boroughs. It’s like blaming the mayor of LA for crime in Peoria.
Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by latchkey on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:18PM
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I see what you did there with step 2.
Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by spacemadness on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:21PM
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The “everything is perfect” crowd isn’t organizing this way.
Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by hker999 on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:28PM
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They dont need to organize. The government hides the crime statistics and the politicians make many crimes legal.
Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by spacemadness on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:36PM
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If they don’t need to organize why are they?
Re:Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills
by braingenious on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:27PM
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Crime in San Francisco is tied with “anything involving unions” as the absolute funniest topics on this website.
There are so many randos that will inexplicably pop into the comments with some variation of “Chesa Boudin invented and mandated crime. He made not breaking the law illegal and if you are caught without fentanyl he will use public money to hire gang members to kidnap your dog. His curse is an eldritch terror that will last far beyond his corporeal expiration.”
and
“My opinion on unionization is that I will happily accept a position at Pinkerton. There are only two groups of people: humans (bosses) and Fungible Productivity Units that must rightfully be constantly reminded of their lack of value.”
In r/bayarea there was a poster that posted nothing but crime posts multiple times a day. If anyone pointed it out they’d be heavily downvoted within minutes. There are groups dedicated to this in many city subreddits.
There seems to be enough of this going on here as well so I expect this will get downvoted accordingly.