Social engineering

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[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This type of trick can never work on terms that are already political.

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    [–]NeoRail 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Do you have any idea how much effort it would take to attempt a mass-level, full time larp like this? You would need the fake progressive to make up at least 30% of all progressives and you would need these people to spend tremendous amounts of time and effort doing useless things and pretending to be something they oppose every day. Then you would also need a high enough level of organisation to get all of these people to change over to a new label once their job is done.

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      [–]NeoRail 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      A very small number of people ('Russian bots', 'Macedonians', etc.) doing a similar kind of 'larp' are believed by many millions to have effectively put Trump in the White House. It will become exceedingly easier for ever smaller, more dedicated groups of people to affect ever larger groups of people.

      This is a meme spread by the mainstream media, it has nothing to do with the topic of our conversation. With a monopoly on the flow of information, you can make anyone believe anything.

      Non-Leftists already pretend that they are something that they oppose every day.

      There is a difference between staying silent because you don't want to bother and literally larping as a woke progressive. Go attend a meeting organised by your local DSA chapter and tell me if you still feel any enthusiasm about this idea.