I've just learned that what's taken me 40 years to figure out I could have read in that chart!
A bit chilling to see it called a 'game'. What I and others do as a verbal hobby is a game too. Same game really, but we're amateurs and only play it among ourselves, usually anyway. .... but if there's a buck in it, .... where do we apply?? It's actually dead easy to whip people into a frenzy over trivialities. Keeping them calm while still discussing those trivialities is the real trick to it.
A few of us like to think we're just trying to warn people that not looking closely at what they're told, and wondering why they are being told, leaves them being led up the garden path big time.
They need to realise that it isn't the people who disagree with them that they should worry about, it's the ones that humour them, that sympathise with them, that boost their egos and become understanding 'buddies' that are the ones who are leading them into their way of thinking.
Who trusts someone with a different viewpoint? Who likes 'rude' people? We throw them off the forum don't we?, too disruptive. But 'nice' people who are helping out and just saying nice things about what interests us, well they can stick around and if they want us to vote as they do, well that's okay because they're nice so they must be right.
Sometimes your best friend can be the one who points out bluntly where you are going wrong.
Speaking of 'That certainly explains recent events . . ." yes it does. It points up how very vulnerable we are to over-reaction when our tenderest buttons are pushed. Usually the egalitarian self esteem and ego button. The 'disruption' was ejected to protect the warm gooey comfort zone that just may be the invention of a gubbermint mole.
There! All paranoid now?? Gooooood. It'll keep yas on your toes! :laugh:
Never doubted that stooges were dropping in and out of forums to push barrows. Political spammers are rife. Many set up their own forums to ensnare the unwary with the invitation to 'have their say', then use it to grind them down and denigrate their viewpoints in order to further impress the already converted on the forum.
It may have been luck of the draw (or my own bias) but the majority of maliciously biased politically based forums are socialist/liberal types. Is there a message in that? Maybe the right wingers just haven't woken up to the value of 'spin' trolls yet??
Are we all gonna look at each now and wonder who is a plant? A few qualify for suspicion.
Probably American. I don't think ASIO are that advanced yet, but I'll look for a recruitment letter, sounds like fun.
So, it's not me, but then I would say that wouldn't I? :whome:Bwaaahahahaa
PS, read the comments below the article, the first one is a ripper. :laugh:
... never mind here 'tis.
