When you’re a narcissist, “others” is nonsensical, because the only person worthy of agency and empathy is you. That’s why the golden rule doesn’t work - it’s like if they were colorblind, they lack the capacity to even understand it.

Yeah, weird - I just posted backup linkies just in case.

Ah, old Bachem Macuno’s timeless screed.

The link seems to not work for me, though, when direct-linked (or, didn’t work on my phone, worked on my computer for some reason). If it doesn’t work, try following the first one: https://worldofvalues.wordpress.com/2006/09/16/bachem-macuno-the-greatest-adult-fanfic-writer-ever/

Second part: https://web.archive.org/web/20220419040328/https://backinanncoultersasssaddleagain.blogspot.com/

It’s another article that shows Walz as a good guy who isn’t here to play power games and politics - honestly, he would be catnip to rural voters if Fox News didn’t exist.

Trump’s debate demands leaked:

• He can wear his favorite bedtime onesie.
• The audience is just his favorite stuffed animals.
• They get McDonald’s afterwards, but Kamala can’t have any.
• Kamala has to wear a hat that says “I smell like poop and diapers, not Trump.”

The lyrics fit, but Thom Yorke’s delivery makes Trump way more sympathetic than he deserves, unfortunately.

I just read the article and I don’t know her name.

I’ve discussed this poster in other threads. I suspect that the user is a real person using an LLM to respond to messages, but they enter the chat when directly called out on it, and give a human response to sow confusion.

However, as you can see from the OP response you directly responded to and others in the thread, the “LLM”-style responses are laser focused on splitting the left vote. They always jump to “stop trying to silence my third party vote” straw men arguments, and don’t respond directly to the points being made (except when accused of being a bot, and then they respond to that).

At the very least, the user is extremely suspicious and not credible.

“Oh, so we can just steal ‘weird’ and turn it against them, like we did ‘fake news’ and ‘fascist’ and all the others, right?”

Followed by:

“Look at these weird liberals who want health care and don’t think of women as cattle!”

#winning, Donald and JD. Never stop never stopping.

The transitive property in action: Mini-soda = Minnesota = Oregon

Yes, as the saying goes, “Even a stuffed cluck tells the right time twice a day.”

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to delay sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case until after the Nov. 5 election, citing “election-interference objectives.”

Yes - and wow, they’re being pretty cavalier to admit in their filing that election interference is their objective.

Full agree. As usual these groups, especially the younger voters who have more statistically lower turnout and more progressive views, could control the direction of the country if they mobilized and voted in force. It’s not just on them, but they do have the power if they realize it in time.

Obviously vote hard, but Montana is and has always been a long shot. We’ve beat the odds before but when you have three decades of 24/7 right-wing news propaganda targeting rural voters, and Montana is very rural, it’s sometimes not a winnable battle.

Oh, for sure. Yes, agreed, weaponizing reporting/banning is a problem, not a solution. I hope the mods catch on if anyone starts trying to misuse it.

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like there is enough to report, but I hoped maybe I was missing something. It’s not good enough propaganda to influence people aware of it, but it is probably good enough to pick off some easily-misled voters, help radicalize and sow division for others, and avoid obvious rule-breaking.

It might be helped by ChatGPT or another AI LM. It certainly matches an LM’s slightly over-wordy structure, responding to some parts with clearly human direct response, and others in ways just barely responsive but never failing to hit bullets pushing counterproductive voting. Would be nice if OpenAI released their ChatGPT detection tool they’ve been sitting on.

I appreciate the link and suggestion - I hate copy-pasting things, but it may be appropriate here.

I don’t assume this for others or often, but I think this account is actually part of an election influence campaign in favor of Trump.

It’s 4 days old, instantly super active, and you can see the responses are repeating typical 2016 deflections whose only functional effect will be to split the left vote. The OP’s comments are canned bullet points, they don’t sound like legit conversation. Every legitimate concern is instantly deflected and misdirected in a way too calculated to be coincidental. (OP, save yourself the time, I won’t be responding to you - in the 1% chance you are representing yourself in good faith, please listen to all the others already trying to help you.)

So on to the main issue: I can block this user (to prevent spam on my All feed), sure. But the more users who are aware of this who block this user, the more skewed the remaining voting and responses become and the more concentrated the propaganda effect will be on unwitting new viewers.

What’s the best move here? I guess just down vote and move on? Report?

Musk repeated the DDOS claim when the Space finally began around 8:40PM ET. “As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” he said.

So not only is he fabricating the DDOS out of thin air, but he just assumes out of nowhere that it’s politically motivated by the “opposition” to silence Trump - when Trump is vomiting nonsense that blankets the media 24/7 and this would do absolutely nothing to prevent Trump from exposing himself to the unwilling public. Galaxy brain genius logic right there.

I understood the mildly infuriating aspect to be how airlines find a way to extract value from you at every step of your trip.

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