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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by prox on Monday May 08, 2023 @11:21AM (#35862585)
Yeah, I wonder what conversations of society would have looked like in an alternative universe without any distractors. I would assume a lot different.

I once read is that if an activist movement rises they prop a flawed individual, find as much as info as they can, and at an opportune moment they ‘out’ the leader.

Apparently this happened with the Occupy movement.

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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by praxulus on Monday May 08, 2023 @11:30AM (#35862708)
The occupy movement had a leader?
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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by prox on Monday May 08, 2023 @11:40AM (#35862826)
I have been trying to get a hold of the article, and since it’s been a while, I hope I am right. That said, I do think the principle is not weird or outrageous for nation stations.
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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by UberFly on Monday May 08, 2023 @12:27PM (#35863528)
Probably several well-funded ones. We just never got to know them. That whole event wasn't even remotely spontaneous.
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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by denton-scratch on Monday May 08, 2023 @02:30PM (#35865282)
Thing is, a leader needs followers. But if the very existence of a leader is secret, as well as his identity, doesn't that make it rather hard for the sheep to know who to follow?
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Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face... by CapstanRoller on Monday May 08, 2023 @04:34PM (#35866710)
>Apparently this happened with the Occupy movement.

So who ended up being propped up? Who became the leader? I cannot find any solid information about your claim, but I did find lots of vague essays mostly from right-wing blogs/outrage outlets.

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