[ExI] Russians bots at work again?

[Darin Sunley]

Ooh! Better yet! Strip their right to vote! That'll convince them they
aren't the brave opposition to a powerful Washington conspiracy, /and/ have
the bonus of restricting political discourse in this country
to right-thinking, qualified people only!

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 9:08 AM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> We may have to escalate to punching them.
>
> That will make them see reason and love us for SURE!
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 9:07 AM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wait, you mean having the mainstream media [whom they already believe to
>> be eyeballs deep in the conspiracy] mock and sneer at them didn't work?!?
>>
>> No one could possibly have predicted that!
>>
>> Sneering at our enemies ALWAYS wins their hearts and minds! ALWAYS!
>>
>> I demand to speak to the manager of the sneering division!
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 9:01 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Conspiracies never die. It might be bots but also conspiracies do this
>>> by themselves anyways.
>>>
>>> SR Ballard
>>>
>>> On Jun 27, 2020, at 9:16 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> PizzaGate is back and has almost reached the Intensity levels it had
>>> during the last presidential election. In 2016 a conspiracy theory with
>>> started that said Hillary Clinton was a head of a child sex molestation
>>> ring headquartered in the basement of a pizza restaurant in Washington DC;
>>> one nut case enter the restaurant with an assault rifle and demanded to be
>>> taken to the basement so he could confront Hillary. The restaurant has no
>>> basement. The conspiracy theory has mutated and so today Hillary has
>>> retired and the child sex slave ring is now ruled by an evil cabal
>>> consisting of Bill Gates, Ellen DeGeneres, and Oprah Winfrey; but it's
>>> still run out of the nonexistent basement of that pizza restaurant. In the
>>> first week of June PizzaGate got 800,000 likes on Facebook and 600,000 on
>>> Instagram. On TikTok posts with the #PizzaGate hashtag have been viewed
>>> more than 82 million times, and Google searches for PizzaGate have
>>> increased enormously.
>>>
>>> Weekly Google search popularity for ‘PizzaGate’
>>> <https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=PizzaGate>
>>>
>>> John K Clark
>>>
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