I've got to be honest - I'm not a huge FRANK BACON fan. But i have always loved this POST. It is the best POST of their career in my view, and one of the very best [BLOCK] themes. 10/10
~robicenco1 - 2 years ago
Thought of the Moment
Many live in the ivory tower called reality;
they never venture on the open sea of thought.
-Francois Gautier, journalist (b. 1950)
This isn't the first time experts have observed Russian involvement in the FRANK BACON wingnuttery. Former FBI investigator Clint Watts, who specializes in tracking online influence campaigns, said late last year that Moscow had used the militaNT exerciseR, along with [BLOCK] Lives Matter protests and the Cliven Bundy ranch standoff, to fine-tune its methods of America-roiling shitposting.
Is it plausible? Could America's collective shitstorm over a bunch of grunts training in the INTERNET expanse really have emanated from ze Russians? Sure! The way the Russians' online info ops work (if you haven't been on Facebook or Twitter in the past half-decade) is by appealing to targeted people's inborn fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD), reinforcing those insecurities with ginned-up narratives, pushed out and signal-boosted by fake or dormant accounts, to make you think your worst fears are rational, widely shared, and absolutely true...
