I can be disappointed in someone I believe is getting duped and still think they are a good person and respect them.
RBG?
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I can be disappointed in someone I believe is getting duped and still think they are a good person and respect them.
Annnnnd I don’t give a shit if something I post is tangentially similar to something you think a Qanon follower would say.
Anyway...
It doesn’t matter who likes your post. This specific post your are replying to here was meant to be funny. Drama queen.
It was him telling me had got banned and that even though we had our own run ins, he respected my posting.
The message itself wasn’t creepy. Just that he found me on Facebook and felt the need to let me know he had been banned. Especially after I had previously stated here I had no desire to interact with him outside of this board.
Goddam it. Pokeabear likes my post too.
We’re just two old queens engaging in a slap fight/vogue off of the drag show floor, I guess.
I just want Trump to get the opportunity to replace her on the bench. And maybe even one other. That'll make his entire term a worthwhile success.
For the record I don’t think she’s dead. I hope she’s ready to retire and write her memoirs and if she can’t work, I would hope that she considers doing that as the right thing to do.
One thing Trump has done remarkably well is appointing Constitutionalist judges. I would rather he get another one before 2020 than roll the dice.
One thing Trump has done remarkably well is appointing Constitutionalist judges. I would rather he get another one before 2020 than roll the dice.
Because you’ve got tons of indication she is.
I think you are missing my cynicism in the post. I think the whole "where's RBG" BS is nonsense. But so was the "where's Melania" BS, yet it didn't stop the media from making it a national story with some national hosts even speculating that she had been abused by Trump and was in hiding. But it is funny watching the left get triggered when their own is 'attacked' using the same criteria and standards they previously justified for attacking Trump and his cronies. First is "where is she", and now the Virginia governor is getting the Kavanaugh yearbook treatment. As the late great Robin Williams might have said: "I find it very ironical."
And I quoted the article cited where the substance clearly said that 20 Days was long, but not unheard of where as most of the RBG stuff is talking about needing proof of life or other such nonsense.
So they aren’t really all that comparable or similar.
You are defending one side and criticizing the other when both were petty and absurd topics that only served to prove how our media (on both sides) chooses to keep stretching further to the extremes and are all too happy to hypothesize random scenarios that only serve to reinforce the beliefs of the given side, and then represent them as possible fact. Its the kind of group think that I expect of Toon and Sys, but am surprised to see you sucked in.
I’m not defending either side. That’s a false statement.
I’m pointing out that the article cited in this thread as comparable to the RBG thing aren’t the same thing or even all that comparable.
That’s not defending one side and attacking the other side.
That’s pointing out that they aren’t the same thing like they were claimed to be.
That’s it.
That’s all.
If the tweet in question had cited cited a report that had actually speculated that Melania was dead, or mentally incompetent, or staying out of the spotlight while she recovered from being physically abused by her husband, then yeah....they would be fairly comparable.
I haven’t defended the speculation about Melania’s whereabouts for twenty days as appropriate or justified.
Not even close.
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Says the guy who was second only to NZPoke when it came to buying in to the Seth Rich/Clinton Death Squad theory. As JD said, you seem to be prone to biting on the conspiracy stuff.
What conspiracy have I jumped on here 80’s liberal guy in a new century?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna966091?__twitter_impression=true
Russian troll accounts purged by Twitter pushed Qanon and other conspiracy theories
Feb. 2, 2019, 9:55 AM ET
By Ben Collins and Joe Murphy
A new batch of troll accounts identified by Twitter as having ties to Russia’s propaganda operation revealed an emphasis on promoting far-right conspiracy theories such as Qanon to Americans.
Twitter announced Thursday the removal of 418 accounts tied to the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, the disinformation group whose employees were indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller last February for attempted election interference.
The accounts’ tweets featured the hashtag #MAGA, usually in support of President Donald Trump, almost 38,000 times — the most of any hashtag. #ReleaseTheMemo, a social media campaign pushed by allies of the president last year that aimed to discredit some members of the FBI, was tweeted 37,583 times.
In all, the 400-some accounts tweeted more than 900,000 tweets.
At the time, close allies of Trump brushed off suggestions that #ReleaseTheMemo, which trended on Twitter, was boosted by Russian influence. "Russian trolls have nothing to do with releasing the memo. That was a vote of the intelligence committee,” counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said last February.
Some now-purged users spammed Twitter with tweets repeating the hashtag “#ReleaseTheMemo.”
When removing the spam-style messages that included multiple hashtags, the second-most tweeted topic for the Russian troll accounts was #Qanon, a baseless conspiracy theory that claims Mueller and Trump are secretly working together to take down a global pedophile ring run by celebrities and Democratic politicians.
#GreatAwakening and #FollowTheWhiteRabbit, which are catchphrases for #Qanon followers, also featured prominently in the Russian trolls’ tweets.
Nina Jankowicz, a global fellow at the Kennan Institute focusing on Russia and technology, told NBC News that Qanon’s often outlandish narratives about a secret global cabal fueled by the United States fits well with Russian propaganda’s larger narrative.
“One of the Kremlin’s favorite tactics is to inspire confusion and doubt to sow distrust in government. Qanon certainly does that,” Jankowicz said.
“Amplifying the conspiracy theory also makes it look like it has more supporters, distracting from more substantive issues in the online discourse.”
Qanon, a more elaborate offshoot of the "pizzagate" conspiracy theory, came to prominence when several Trump supporters showed up at the president’s rally in Tampa, Florida, this past August carrying “Q” signs and wearing T-shirts supporting the conspiracy.
In the last year, believers in the conspiracy have also been in armed standoffs with the police in Arizona, and one blocked the Hoover Dam demanding the “Release of the OIG Report,” a Qanon-based conspiracy theory loosely derived from the success of #ReleaseTheMemo.
All of the 30 most-used hashtags pushed by the suspected Russian troll accounts focused on either support for Trump, conspiracy theories that targeted his political opponents or a separate — but sometimes overlapping — trolling campaign that meant to demean Muslims.
The hashtags #IslamIsTheProblem, #StopImportingIslam and #BanShariaLaw were each tweeted more than 15,000 times by the 481 Russian troll accounts.
The accounts attempted to emulate Americans on both sides of the political aisle.
One account identified by Twitter as a Russian troll account, @QuartneyChante, posed as an African-American woman. One of her tweets received more than 66,000 retweets.
“Dear White People. It’s a privilege to learn about racism instead of experiencing it your whole life,” the tweet read.
The account was even featured in several news articles, including a Mashable story dubbed "Dear white women: Here's how to step up for women of color.”
Jankowicz said the widespread dissemination of the tweets is a good reminder not to trust everything you read on social media.
“That account was created fairly recently and gained a lot of traction quickly, it seems,” Jankowicz said. “It’s pretty sad, but unless accounts use a plausible name and personal photo on Twitter, I’d advise users against interacting with them.”
Ben Collins
Ben Collins covers disinformation, extremism and the internet for NBC News.
Joe Murphy is a Data Editor at NBC News Digital
Russian troll accounts purged by Twitter pushed Qanon and other conspiracy theories
Feb. 2, 2019, 9:55 AM ET
By Ben Collins and Joe Murphy
A new batch of troll accounts identified by Twitter as having ties to Russia’s propaganda operation revealed an emphasis on promoting far-right conspiracy theories such as Qanon to Americans.
Twitter announced Thursday the removal of 418 accounts tied to the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, the disinformation group whose employees were indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller last February for attempted election interference.
The accounts’ tweets featured the hashtag #MAGA, usually in support of President Donald Trump, almost 38,000 times — the most of any hashtag. #ReleaseTheMemo, a social media campaign pushed by allies of the president last year that aimed to discredit some members of the FBI, was tweeted 37,583 times.
In all, the 400-some accounts tweeted more than 900,000 tweets.
At the time, close allies of Trump brushed off suggestions that #ReleaseTheMemo, which trended on Twitter, was boosted by Russian influence. "Russian trolls have nothing to do with releasing the memo. That was a vote of the intelligence committee,” counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said last February.
Some now-purged users spammed Twitter with tweets repeating the hashtag “#ReleaseTheMemo.”
When removing the spam-style messages that included multiple hashtags, the second-most tweeted topic for the Russian troll accounts was #Qanon, a baseless conspiracy theory that claims Mueller and Trump are secretly working together to take down a global pedophile ring run by celebrities and Democratic politicians.
#GreatAwakening and #FollowTheWhiteRabbit, which are catchphrases for #Qanon followers, also featured prominently in the Russian trolls’ tweets.
Nina Jankowicz, a global fellow at the Kennan Institute focusing on Russia and technology, told NBC News that Qanon’s often outlandish narratives about a secret global cabal fueled by the United States fits well with Russian propaganda’s larger narrative.
“One of the Kremlin’s favorite tactics is to inspire confusion and doubt to sow distrust in government. Qanon certainly does that,” Jankowicz said.
“Amplifying the conspiracy theory also makes it look like it has more supporters, distracting from more substantive issues in the online discourse.”
Qanon, a more elaborate offshoot of the "pizzagate" conspiracy theory, came to prominence when several Trump supporters showed up at the president’s rally in Tampa, Florida, this past August carrying “Q” signs and wearing T-shirts supporting the conspiracy.
In the last year, believers in the conspiracy have also been in armed standoffs with the police in Arizona, and one blocked the Hoover Dam demanding the “Release of the OIG Report,” a Qanon-based conspiracy theory loosely derived from the success of #ReleaseTheMemo.
All of the 30 most-used hashtags pushed by the suspected Russian troll accounts focused on either support for Trump, conspiracy theories that targeted his political opponents or a separate — but sometimes overlapping — trolling campaign that meant to demean Muslims.
The hashtags #IslamIsTheProblem, #StopImportingIslam and #BanShariaLaw were each tweeted more than 15,000 times by the 481 Russian troll accounts.
The accounts attempted to emulate Americans on both sides of the political aisle.
One account identified by Twitter as a Russian troll account, @QuartneyChante, posed as an African-American woman. One of her tweets received more than 66,000 retweets.
“Dear White People. It’s a privilege to learn about racism instead of experiencing it your whole life,” the tweet read.
The account was even featured in several news articles, including a Mashable story dubbed "Dear white women: Here's how to step up for women of color.”
Jankowicz said the widespread dissemination of the tweets is a good reminder not to trust everything you read on social media.
“That account was created fairly recently and gained a lot of traction quickly, it seems,” Jankowicz said. “It’s pretty sad, but unless accounts use a plausible name and personal photo on Twitter, I’d advise users against interacting with them.”
Ben Collins
Ben Collins covers disinformation, extremism and the internet for NBC News.
Joe Murphy is a Data Editor at NBC News Digital
There are grown men on this board who genuinely believe Donald Trump is a Russian asset, and its a conspiracy theory that I want to know why an 85 year old recovering from lung cancer surgery hasn’t been seen in 45 days.
Fascinating.
You can be an asset and still be a dumbass. Useful idiot is the term. If you took a long hard look in the mirror you might see one. I doubt it, but you might. I’m here to help. When I feel like it.
You can be an asset and still be a dumbass. Useful idiot is the term. If you took a long hard look in the mirror you might see one. I doubt it, but you might. I’m here to help. When I feel like it.
You are one of the alleged grown men I’m referring to.
Yes, that was understood. Your passive aggressive missives are not difficult to decode. Im sure you’ll say they aren’t meant to be and yet you felt the need to make an obvious point
Anyone want to put a little wager on RBG's attendance to the SotU speech? I'll take the side that she doesn't attend. I think the excuse will be some sort of scheduling conflict due to the delay from the shutdown.
Yes, that was understood. Your passive aggressive missives are not difficult to decode. Im sure you’ll say they aren’t meant to be and yet you felt the need to make an obvious point
My standard has always been that I don’t say anything on the forums that I wouldn’t say over a beer in person. That’s why I told you I meant you - so it wouldn’t be ambiguous or passive aggressive.
Sounds a little strange, but I/Dbros guess it's o.k. as long as you don't start posting messages at his direction.
