> You should follow your own rule here and stop posting.
I shall never stop posting.
> Nothing wrong with jumping to something that factually happened, on the specific subject platform where it happened.
It is wrong insofar if you're trying to build a credible case, spouting off wild accusations in a know-it-all manner is not only off-putting, it's downright gauche. We've all lived through the nonstop coverage of the Mueller report and seen what very little resulted from that. Have some perspective, please.
> They weren't "phantom Russian hackers", they actually were Russian hackers. We know this because we had a federal investigation and congressional hearings that confirmed the fact that reddit is a target for Russian propaganda campaigns.
They existed. And how many votes did they move, exactly? The problem is that what is ascribed to foreign intelligence operations can easily also be attributed to political incompetence and a failure to connect with the people. What happened back then is directly analogous to the r/antiwork situation- you are saying that the Internet Research Agency is at fault for worker discontent. And not, actual material conditions.
So it's very easy to point at foreign scapegoats, while not enacting policy to actually improve peoples' lives. And I say scapegoats because the work of these foreign actors, even if they might serve to add further chaos and to catalyze a situation, is not truly at fault for the situation; the fault is in our own doing, for letting it get so bad that it's even possible for an outside catalyst to destabilize things further.
> "Believe my false narrative or you're Qanon-like!"
Well, some of the mental gymnastics and reaching people did in the shock of political developments back then did seem to be a mirror version of QAnon. There was certainly a lot of cope that led to magical thinking to rationalize policy failure or simply political incompetence.
> And there it is, the mask slips off, "Russiagate". Straight from the Trumpers Qanon script.
The way I see it, consensus reality broke in American public life after Bush v. Gore and it's been splintering ever since. Russiagate, QAnon, the DNC rigged the primaries against Bernie... everyone's got a narrative these days. It's all gone very hyperreal and Adam Curtis shaped. Hell, it's even how pop culture fandoms work these days:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-star-...
> It's accusatory because it actually happened, on the same platform.
Okay, what's your narrative? What makes r/antiwork such a perfect op? Did it create the Great Resignation? Did it inspire the Amazon unionization efforts already underway? Is it the r/The_Donald behind Striketober? Is it the mastermind conspiring to foment a new Occupy movement? Please, pray tell, explain how a subreddit full of disgruntled workers trading memes is engendering the downfall of the Republic?
Do you have any sympathy at all for those people? Or are they all bots and psyops in your outlook? Don't you understand that this makes you look out of touch and callous towards their suffering? Have you no sense of decency?
> No need, this worked perfectly.
Oh?