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Get off of twitter accept that its a lost cause. stop wasting your time arguing with people who think it'd be funny to kill you.

I guarantee a large chunk of those are AI bots

Anyone with any sense doesn't use Twitter anymore. This is like throwing bait into a shark tank and being surprised by the reaction.

You know those are just bots, right?

Do the responses represent a genuine glimpse of U.S. opinion on Trump’s bully-boy act?

No. Xitter is a far-right echo chamber, so such abuse is to be expected. I'm not sure why this person is even posting there.

The purpose of troll farms is to overwhelm people with a wave of opinion, making it seem like it's the opinion of the majority even if it's only a minority, to make readers doubt their own opinions as they see to much support which really is only 1 person for every 1000 comments if that.

@breakfastmtn You have to remember that a lot of the accounts on X aren't real people, they're bots.

I'd seen warnings posted that this, in large part, is and is going to be a psychological type of warfare. I thought it was nonsense at first, till I saw the barrage of verbal attacks against Canadians continuing to grow in numbers and frequency at sites like Reddit... telling us we're useless and might as well give up. But then it occurred to me that when our enemy wants us to think we're doing it wrong, it's because they know we're doing it right!

So if they are, in fact, attempting to defeat us psychologically, then we need to fight back the same way: We need to maintain and guard our right thinking and perspective by continuing to read and post and share those articles that prove our efforts are working! When we read something that discourages us, we need to follow it up by also reading from the reams of encouraging news out there! Foremost, we need to remind ourselves and each other that we aren't alone in this... that, as Canadians, we are 40 million strong! And not only this, but we also have the support of Friends from all around the world, many of them even joining us in our efforts!

So we need to keep standing together and standing strong... knowing they would love nothing more than to see us give up, and in fact need for us to give up cause they know what we're doing is working!

Go Canada & Friends! 🍁🌍

https://gizmodo.com/online-trolls-actually-just-assholes-all-the-time-stud-1847575210

This quote from a political scientist they interview for the article is one of the most baffling statements I've seen in a while. I keep staring at it.

“You know, it’s sad,” Givens says. “I was one of the first Americans to study the far right in Europe. I’ve looked at various aspects, anti-immigration stuff, anti-discrimination policy, the roots of racism. I did a video for PBS called ‘Can democracy survive racism?’ This was back in 2019.

“And now I’m like, ‘Damn, I didn’t think the U.S. was going to be the first to fall.’”

It is simultaneously nonsensical and the essence of "this explains a lot".

Post to X

Get trolled

Many such cases

As a general rule, nothing curated by an algorithm is genuine.

Iterate that for an algorithm controlled by an American corporation.

Then iterate it again for Musk.

Combine that with everyone having left Twitter who isn't maga.

No, your experience on Twitter is not representative of the average American.

What do you expect when you engage in the platform ran by a wannabe-Nazi?

The thing that is surprisingly hard to keep in mind is that the US is a culturally fascist country. It has been for a very long time. It's what a fascist democracy looks like.

It is a country with long standing and broadly shared and accepted foundational mythology. It glorifies the military, and the "All American" young adult. There's a strong cult of tradition, a deep distrust of learning and knowledge, and firm belief in the United States as a country and people of "action". Despite their own claims to the contrary, they believe that disagreement with the US is betrayal, particularly on the part of people who arr not white and born of white US citizens. They always have an external enemy (and often an internal one, too) to judtify any action. They have contempt for countries and peoples they see as weak, and a huge hard-on for machismo.

American exceptionalism, which is taught to every school child in the country, is a fascist doctrine.

You can go down the list of fascist qualities outlined in Ur-Fascism and see that the US has always ticked off a large majority of them. The only thing that's different today is that Americans are confronting someone trying to turn it into a disctatorship.

It's not the fascism that bothers people about the current shift, but the governing structure the current fascist-in-chief is trying to impose.

@breakfastmtn "is this how americans really feel?" -- a lot of them, yes. 100%, there are plenty of americans who feel that way. certainly not all of them, but definitely a lot

The media needs to catch up with the notion that they can’t rely on Twitter to be an accurate pulse on the world sentiment. It’s not the same people at X. It’s not people at X in a lot of cases with the bots.

It likely went “berserk” because X’s algorithm and the bots are tuned to whip up keywords like “governor” and “Canada” used together.

Twitter seems like it has basically turned into YouTube comments.

Canadians will need to do the right thing and hurt America in the spot they like most: their pocketbook.

This will hurt us too, no doubt. Monetarily, probably more. But I don’t think the average American are prepared for what kind of hurt we can put them through.

I like how The Thee has replaced their X link with Mastodon and Bluesky. More sites need to do this.

The U.S. is a terrorist organization. They always have been. They’ve always been at war and are always looking for war.

Anyone who thinks different just needs to look at the atrocities they’ve committed in the past.

Look at the atrocities they’re doing now and it’s widely being accepted as OK. Ethnic cleansing, removing one people’s from a location they’ve lived in forever, annexation of sovereign nations, discussing negotiations of a country without the country under attack being invited to discuss their future, nazis in the henhouse, Nazis taking to the streets to proclaim victory, mass racial action, concentration camps for migrants, using to bolster their wants.

This isn’t a stable country, this is a country beginning to show its true colours and hopefully they get ripped apart from the inside.

Someone needs to put down Trump and his rabid MAGA movement.

MAGA is just a modern day term for nazisim.

genuine glimpse of U.S. opinion

yes... of a vocal subset of the maga cult. magas generally have some similar views but it's the extremist trolls that you encounter most online.. because they're so fucking persistent and they're everywhere specifically looking for opportunities to hurt others and spread the gospel of a leaky diaper.

the maga nuts are about one-third of the country. another third is furious and pissed-off, and the last third has no fucking clue how bad it really is and how much worse it's headed for.

They forget. We burned down the white house once, and we'll fucking do it again.

X is full of Musk bot propaganda which was always his plan. X is obviously manipulated but by who? I'd love for someone to take him to court & find out. Wouldn't be surprised to learn him & Trump have foreign countries helping, likely Saudi Arabia & Israel.