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Agreed. However, watching the tweets trying to make this political has been sickening. The number of people wishing to "send liberals to Oroville" is nothing s

• Obi_Juan_Kenobi 10y ago
  Right!? I heard about this damage a few days ago and thought it was interesting, but now I find out there's this huge conspiracy scene around it. Stuff like 'the gov't is in CYA mode and trying to downplay risk' to 'this is a false-flag attack to undermine Trump'. It's just so weird that this seems to have people frothing at the mouth. How did so many collectively decide to adopt this narrative?
  • nosuchthing 10y ago
    If the bots and sockpuppet accounts on twitter are any indication of sockpuppetry among public internet forums than it's safe to assume there's a significant and non-trivial amount of postings coming from agenda pushing organizations.
  • pjc50 10y ago
    Oh, the frothing pre-dates Trump by a long way. It seems to be a self-sustaining mode in US politics, this deep paranoia about conspiracies.
  • mtnygard 10y ago
    The "false flag" stuff is just loony. But there is an element of CYA because previous rounds of funding allocation have apparently evaporated into the ether.