Austin Tucker Martin, 21, believed the president was a ‘strong leader,’ sources say, but became increasingly concerned by the prospect of a government cover-up and powerful people ‘getting away with it’
Once again, political violence stems from Republican ideology.
Euro-Lemmings believe both that Americans are recklessly married to vigilante political violence and also that they don’t do anything ever, it just depends on whatever belief, at any given point in time, allows them to whine about the US.
Yeah I whine about it a lot too, the point is that there is literally no action an American can take that’s correct. Do something? Rash, juvenile, doomed to fail, too violent, they should have large protests and walkouts instead. Protest in the street? Too civil, pointless, also doomed to fail, why aren’t Americans taking up arms by the millions to kill the government. Every action is the wrong one.
It’s your stupid monkey brain thinking that you are talking to ‘that one guy called internet’ instead of thousands of tens of thousands of different people.
What you both are noticing is a tactic of propaganda called FUD. It stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
The goal of this propaganda is to promote a feeling of hopelessness, on a large scale this will decrease political participation (“why vote, it doesn’t matter anyway, laws don’t matter they’ll just ignore them, the idea in the OP is dumb and anyone who thinks this will work is too”). By targeting the social spaces of the opposing party (or all parties in the cases of some nation-states) the adversary can attack the morale of the population, disrupting or delaying a cohesive response.
It doesn’t take too much creativity (and now, with LLMs, absolutely none) to make posts that say some variation of ‘that won’t work and you are dumb’ on every topic. This is why you have this perception of a mass amount of criticism, it’s being fabricated at scale across all of social media (Fediverse spaces had a brief period of obscurity but are now part of the propaganda campaigns).
That isn’t to say that there are not legit criticisms, but they are being signal boosted significantly as part of these FUD campaigns.
I’ve been calling it the “Reddit Defeatist Brigade”. As your comment states it isn’t confined to reddit. I wondered if it was some sort of propaganda because it’s so prevalent. Now I know.
I mean, it is. But when I’m getting threats, or when people say terrible things about Minnesota to punish me for not protesting the way they want… things are a bit different.
I simply don’t have the energy to deal with Euros trying to start fights with organizers and demoralize people in our ranks because we don’t do things exactly how that group wants us to act. Especially when we face this no matter how we attempt to solve the problem.
Euro-Lemmings believe both that Americans are recklessly married to vigilante political violence and also that they don’t do anything ever, it just depends on whatever belief, at any given point in time, allows them to whine about the US.
Oh no. Not whining about the openly fascist government of America, those damn euros how dare they complain!
Yeah I whine about it a lot too, the point is that there is literally no action an American can take that’s correct. Do something? Rash, juvenile, doomed to fail, too violent, they should have large protests and walkouts instead. Protest in the street? Too civil, pointless, also doomed to fail, why aren’t Americans taking up arms by the millions to kill the government. Every action is the wrong one.
It’s your stupid monkey brain thinking that you are talking to ‘that one guy called internet’ instead of thousands of tens of thousands of different people.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only person to notice.
What you both are noticing is a tactic of propaganda called FUD. It stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
The goal of this propaganda is to promote a feeling of hopelessness, on a large scale this will decrease political participation (“why vote, it doesn’t matter anyway, laws don’t matter they’ll just ignore them, the idea in the OP is dumb and anyone who thinks this will work is too”). By targeting the social spaces of the opposing party (or all parties in the cases of some nation-states) the adversary can attack the morale of the population, disrupting or delaying a cohesive response.
It doesn’t take too much creativity (and now, with LLMs, absolutely none) to make posts that say some variation of ‘that won’t work and you are dumb’ on every topic. This is why you have this perception of a mass amount of criticism, it’s being fabricated at scale across all of social media (Fediverse spaces had a brief period of obscurity but are now part of the propaganda campaigns).
That isn’t to say that there are not legit criticisms, but they are being signal boosted significantly as part of these FUD campaigns.
I’ve been calling it the “Reddit Defeatist Brigade”. As your comment states it isn’t confined to reddit. I wondered if it was some sort of propaganda because it’s so prevalent. Now I know.
Maybe, just maybe that’s different people with different opinions and you’re lumping them all under one umbrella?
I mean, it is. But when I’m getting threats, or when people say terrible things about Minnesota to punish me for not protesting the way they want… things are a bit different.
I simply don’t have the energy to deal with Euros trying to start fights with organizers and demoralize people in our ranks because we don’t do things exactly how that group wants us to act. Especially when we face this no matter how we attempt to solve the problem.
Hmmm, almost like that should be the approach with large, continental polities with a plethora of regional political subcultures in it.
Strawmericans, if you will.