Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. (This uses the same social media graph built before.) We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people (think nonsense reddit posts about conspiracies that sound like Markov chains of nonsense other people have said), or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).
The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can, at which points they’ve gotten a head start on going viral and tend to capture a larger-than-otherwise share of media attention.
(All of the stuff above is basically the “standard” for online PR (usually farmed out to an LLC with a generic name working for the marketing firm contracted by the big firm; deniability is a word frequently said), once you’re above a certain size.)
Also this,
“The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”
So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.
“All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review
Everybody is focusing on LA so nobody is reporting The One, Big, Beautiful Bill or the court case of 2024 voting machine tampering.
What court case? I can’t find anything. I believe you, I just can’t find it.
https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-lawsuit-advances-2083391
And new evidence has been discovered: the auditing company which certifies voting machines is a shell company and has been dissolved.
https://dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/the-machines-were-changed-before
The federally accredited testing lab, Pro V&V, that signed off on “significant” changes to ES&S voting machines—which are used in over 40 percent of U.S. counties—“vanished from public view” after the election, according to the Dissent in Bloom Substack.
Yep, that seems pretty serious.
Thanks, I hadn’t come across that yet. Newsweek is hiding these kind of articles form their frontpage, I have no idea why. I appreciate you taking the time to source it well.
Yup. Knew this would come to light one day, as soon as Trump thanked Elon for being “so good with the voting machines” and saying he couldn’t have won without him. Because he can’t help but brag, even when he thinks he’s being cryptic (he’s not).
The economic times is rated as somewhat sketch on a few bias checkers. I’m not familiar with it. It’s out of India?
they needed a manufactered distraction, and this was it. no coincidence talks of the tariffs has suddenly disappeared from MSM, then the BBB was reported for like a week or 2 and then dropped. to focus on trump based distraction.
Worth noting that 50501, the biggest supporter of remaining “peaceful”, still has no cohesive message despite being controlled by democrats. Same shit happened with the women’s march and occupy Wallstreet.
Because activist regressive mods made their way into nearly every 50501 public form, including Lemmy months ago
Got a permaban for calling out bot activity for the first time on the main instance, so fuck them and everyone involved. Their fault for not doing their jobs
despite being controlled by democrats
As a direct result of it, in fact.
still has no cohesive message despite being controlled by democrats
Lol. They have no cohesive message because they’re controlled by democrats
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50501 is a liberal movement whose only goal is pre-trump status quo.
Lenin talks about the need for a working class Vanguard, otherwise these spontaneous protests/movements will always get co-opted by liberals and mainstream, and eventually fizzle away. We saw it happen with BLM, occupy, women’s march, etc
I don’t have any long term hope for 50501, but we’re using the momentum to recruit for DSA and workers movements.
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It’s responsible for any successful socialist movement, so yea I’d say so.
Pure evil. They reference the banality of evil, but that only applies if you have no clue your part of it. That user is most definitely evil and immoral. Pretending like you just gave up and are doing it because you’re part of another group of people is just hiding behind a facade. They know what they’re doing is immoral, yet they call it amoral. They know what they’re doing is making things worse, yet they say FB is doing it and nobody thinks all those people are evil.
Pure evil.
Yeah it was a really wild read that then the other person agreed with them. It felt like reading psychopath diaries.
Okay. I dont understand this thread. I for one advocate for violence against Nazis. I fully expect that “peaceful protest” will lead to juuuust enough capitulation by the Nazis to calm everyone down so they go home and let the Nazis further entrench their power while the protesters think they won. Someone in the thread mentioned the dissolution of BLM and Occupy by milquetoast shitlibs; without violence the same happens here IMO. @TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
What are we advocating for here?
Steve should flood his zone and by zone I mean his liver and by flood I mean drink dangerous amounts of alcohol
That’s already happening. Karma seems to not exist for people without consciences.
