Keyno said:
Im Gipper said:
Yes, Russian and Chinese bots. Yes those bots are at it again
Actually the #1 way the Russians and Chinese screw with us is by manipulating social media. It is cheap and very effective.
In 2016 the only things the Russians did was buy some pro-Trump, anti-Trump, pro-Hillary, and anti-Hillary ads on Facebook; spending less than $100K. They also had bot farms putting out all kinds of stuff designed to stir up anger on all sides.
In 2020, the Chinese ran an extremely effective psyops campaign to scare everyone that the WuFlu was the deadliest virus in human history. Remember all the videos of people randomly "dropping dead" on the streets, a man coughing up black blood (that one was actually a real video, but years old and poor man dying of cancer), all the Twitter accounts claiming the Chinese were burning tens of thousands of bodies per day in Wuhan, guys walking around spraying white mist into the air (claiming it was anti-viral agents), etc, etc, etc. It was all bogus and designed to scare people enough to going into lockdown and destroying their countries. It caused untold amounts of damage we're still dealing with and nearly succeeded fully.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill