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g4rg4ntu4's avatar

Nice work. Very well researched.

What I find the most ridiculous is that these "tech bros" are not even remotely technical - for example, this smooth brained Ashley (a girls name by the way Ashley) is a perfect example - majoring in Science and Technology studies which is code for burger flipping (with the greatest respect to my comrades that work in fast food).

The "tech bros" - a coterie of mid-wits and smooth brains that wouldn't know their way around the simplest first order differential equation. For them tech is a blunt cudgel, a tool of repression, rather than a tool of emancipation. More than anything else these "people" - with their clear preoccupation with authoritarianism, and their mean girl attitude to general discourse - are symptomatic of a society in decline.

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“Countering a troll and bot army rating spree […] with ratings and comments by real people is exactly what should be done if you actually care about opposing inorganic, astroturfed propaganda operations creating a false image of mass support for something that doesn't exist in reality.” YES. And we must continue, because the obvious contrast between the two is waking a lot of people up. Great work! These smear campaigns are not only designed to malign the subject, but to colonize their consciousness, time and energy as they are compelled to counter the lies.

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