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Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by themark »

msrenee wrote: post #85
deelowe wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same sort of bs is happening with the horse paste stuff now. The story about hospitals being overrun due to people oding were wildly inaccurate at best. Whatever fits the narrative I guess…

Horse paste? It's not you specifically, but you're not the first person I've seen recently who has referred to it and didn't appear to understand what the substance is. Someone I know called it a "horse tranquilizer" in a conversation the other day. It's Ivermectin. It's a dewormer. It shows some promise, but more research is needed into its efficacy. Anyone who has a baseline knowledge of medicine would call it a de…

If someone knows about medicine, are they required to utilize proper words like efficacy?

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by throwawaylinux »

tadfisher wrote: post #87
throwawaylinux wrote: post #82

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I completely agree -- hell, I still can't work out if "Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election" was satire or if people actually believed it.

You do recall the months-long investigation into this question ? One that resulted in 37 indictments and 5 prison sentences? Even if it exonerated the Trump campaign, which it didn't, I don't think you're very accepting of alternate viewpoints.

No, I don't recall that. I recall a years long investigation into it that conceded that no evidence was ever found that implicated Trump or his campaign of colluding with Russians. I kind of have to wonder why people like Adam Schiff are still hiding all that "ample evidence" of collusion they insisted existed -- is he also in Putin's pocket and covering up for Trump?

I can guess how accepting you are of alternate viewpoints.

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by coryrc »

msrenee wrote: post #85
deelowe wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same sort of bs is happening with the horse paste stuff now. The story about hospitals being overrun due to people oding were wildly inaccurate at best. Whatever fits the narrative I guess…

Horse paste? It's not you specifically, but you're not the first person I've seen recently who has referred to it and didn't appear to understand what the substance is. Someone I know called it a "horse tranquilizer" in a conversation the other day. It's Ivermectin. It's a dewormer. It shows some promise, but more research is needed into its efficacy. Anyone who has a baseline knowledge of medicine would call it a de…

https://711web.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-study-foun...

It's got a picture of a horse and PASTE in a big font. But, yes, like sibling post, it's used derisively for people who won't get a free vaccine known to reduce death 10x+ but will get random shit radio hosts tell them to try.

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by bandyaboot »

grapist420 wrote: post #50
jolux wrote: post #43

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I understand it was intended as satire. What I don’t understand is why anyone would be surprised that you fooled people. People are notoriously easy to fool! Smart people, dumb people, brilliant scientists. Happens all the time. I would go so far as to say that being fooled, and being a gigantic dumbass, is the state of nature of human beings. It didn’t end up in any news source I would classify as having a good repu…

Subs like transpets illustrate more how ridiculous it is people are fooled. Thousands of upspergs on posts about dilating dogs or castrating cats. People are absurdly gullible and it’s really just terrible.

Yeah, it’s problematic that there are so many gullible people and also pretty problematic that there are so many useless people looking to exploit that.

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by prvc »

scythe wrote: post #39

You can also see some more rdrama handiwork in the fatuous "/r/transpets", where they pretend to perform gender reassignment surgery on their animal companions.

Which seems to have been banned. Were the admins fooled by the satire, as well?

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by klyrs »

ethbr0 wrote: post #23

Someone taken in by the ruse, on being told it was a ruse... > “It may be a lie, but the fact I believed it speaks volumes about my enemies, and not me” ... that's pretty much the zeitgeist of our times. (By which I mean, people who are on Twitter and Facebook) facepalm

Having not seen any of this happen, I'm forced to wonder: is this entire story fraudulent? Did r/drama do any of this, and/or were the people reacting to it actually in on the joke? Is the "of course people fell for this" reaction falling for the meta-troll? But it won't keep me up at night.

edit: oh, good. Cousin comment by drdec went there

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #60
chipotle_coyote wrote: post #44

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Definitely an interesting article. Have a clap or two. (I have no idea what that's worth on Medium anymore.) I haven't encountered this specific group before, but I've definitely run into the "we want to believe the worst of our enemies" mindset, when I got into an argument with an earnest, well-meaning Bernie Sanders supporter who came across an obviously tongue-in-cheek Joe Biden pinup coloring book during the 2020…

Did you leave a word out here: > I mean, how can you read "Joe Biden pinup coloring book" and immediately go "oh, this is a joke") Should read and not immediately ?

You are correct! I am ___ always the best proofreader. :)

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by mkr-hn »

vmception wrote: post #49
floren wrote: post #26

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I believe that tweet was intended as comedy.

Many people believe the caricatures Ask any politically independent or moderate person, and they can tell you everyone else only sees caricatures of the other side

The notion that there are sides and not a web of gradients is built on caricatures. It's the same kind of thinking that makes people believe the color painted over a state on the news tells you anything about an individual there.

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by [deleted] »

prvc wrote: post #86
tyingq wrote: post #69

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He's not my cup of tea either, but his bio is fairly impressive: https://www.stevesilberman.com/about-steve/

>but his bio is fairly impressive Perhaps, that one may be impressed merely by reading such a blurb is part of the problem.

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Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Post by alasdair_ »

drdec wrote: post #71
floren wrote: post #26

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I believe that tweet was intended as comedy.

It might not be true, but it is so revealing of the mindset of people who think that way.

The definition of the word “irony” should simply be a link to your comment.
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