BREAKING: FBI whistleblower @realSteveFriend revealed that bureau leadership received cash incentives to inflate the number of their “domestic extremism” cases! The FBI has been targeting our fellow Americans as “extremists” in order to abuse their power.

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[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I kind of doubt @Site_rly_sux is paid to troll, as untreated mental illness is far more likely. Just going off comments I've seen in the past day or two though.

The thing I dislike about blocking dysfunctional users is it disables your perspective of reality. Thomas Grays conclusion (bastardized to 'ignorance is bliss') is correct, however the downside is you've cut the flow of information from your environment. Imo, awareness trumps happiness. But who knows? Maybe that's just because:

You haven't a thought of your own, as you've parroted far right abuses and disinformation at Saidit for years and anyone who doesn't join you in the circle jerk you label a leftist and block them, so that you can continue parroting the same far right lies like a good gimp for the .01%.

😁 (This is what you'd miss if you blocked trolls!)

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Weird how the paid posters automatically jump in to defend the powerful and crap on the little guy. Exactly the opposite you'd expect, especially on a site dedicated to dissident political content and free speech. Who writes long graduate student-like research comments telling people off for exposing billion dollar megacorporations for fucking us over?

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It's not really the opposite. A percentage have always sucked up to the powerful. "Bro, let me be your minion and I'll defend you for the benefits of complicity."

Saidit is pretty far from free speech (hence, my absence), and dissident political content here is far to the left of sites I've been using, despite the trolls that attracts.

As for the "graduate student-like research comments telling people off", your and my reactions kind of point away from that being a paid propagandist, unless I'm still overestimating average IQ. I think a genuine propagandist would look to 'fit in' more, and not be so contrary and obvious.

Regardless, commentary in the near future will likely be dominated by AI bots, if it isn't already on the more popular platforms.