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This is fantastic, because it describes fairly typical forum activity as a sign of _soviet KGB super spy activity_. Now, those happen, but aren’t _that_ frequen
by LaGrange 4y ago
This is fantastic, because it describes fairly typical forum activity as a sign of _soviet KGB super spy activity_. Now, those happen, but aren’t _that_ frequent. Meanwhile when you see those “who cares” posts, you’re just dealing with genuine bona fide terrible people.
So now this post triggered folks here to look at every time their post - or something they _personally_ believe important - sinks and think “oh, it’s the COINTELPRO” - meanwhile it’s just that nobody cares. Maybe they should, I don’t know, but they don’t.
On top of that, I bet it made a few of you think that police violence videos are Russian psyops. Just smuggled that under the radar, phrased it in a technically correct way.
Essentially I’m saying it’s like those “protect women against trafficking” videos aimed at wealthy middle-class white women - that both make them paranoid, and distract from real issues, all so that the poster can feel smart.
- krapp 4y agoI mean, it's literally called "The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies" and claims one of the obvious signs of being a fed is denying the credibility of conspiracy theories. It's an obvious /x/ shitpost that for some reason a lot of people take seriously. It may have some value in describing the psychology of forums, trolling techniques and logical fallacies but it's purpose is obviously to troll paranoids into seeing spooks everywhere.