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'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets (wegotthiscovered.com)
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They grabbed a tourist off the street and detained her for eight hours while her daughter was left to fend for herself on the streets. NYC y'all better be starting some shit

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[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Idk if you're genuinely stupid or just trying to get people hurt, but fyi speaking openly about violently resisting an oppressive government on unsecure channels is a bad idea for what I would have thought would be obvious reasons. Also seems like you're sarcastically implying that we're not at a point where violent resistance is a reasonable response, in case you haven't bothered watching the news recently a whole lot of people in LA would disagree with that, and there's a shitload of video

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

a whole lot of people in LA would disagree with that, and there’s a shitload of video

They were mostly peaceful. And when I say most, I mean like 99%. They know how to do it.

Also, this is what most of you are doing in this thread at me.

Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream -- people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. (This uses the same social media graph built before.) We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people (think nonsense reddit posts about conspiracies that sound like Markov chains of nonsense other people have said), or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).

The goal is to keep opinions we don't want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can, at which points they've gotten a head start on going viral and tend to capture a larger-than-otherwise share of media attention.

(All of the stuff above is basically the "standard" for online PR (usually farmed out to an LLC with a generic name working for the marketing firm contracted by the big firm; deniability is a word frequently said), once you're above a certain size.)

https://archive.is/PoUMo

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You pulled that percentage and the following accusation directly out of your ass, it might make you feel better to imagine that everyone who disagrees with you is either a bot or a russian troll but it's not a particularly strong counter-argument, truth is truth regardless of the source