I& #39;m really curious about them. Some of them are bots, others are clearly struggling with some form of delusion, but a lot of them seem to be hobbyists who just spend all day looking for people to send random shitty memes to.
Like this dingleberry is using a phone, so it& #39;s unlikely they& #39;re automated. It& #39;s just someone tapping laboriously at their screen, looking for (what? I don& #39;t know? accounts with #BLM? accounts on a list somewhere?) and sending them dimbulb agitprop.
I& #39;ve concluded that my time high in the #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> search result put me on a list somewhere - maybe a literal Twitter list compiled by some Confederate gravy-eater thinkfluencer: "Enemies of the Master Race."
And there& #39;s this vast horde of angry boomers who stab their thumbs at their phones all day and all night, pasting links to tweets into @s from these Enemies Lists.
The part I don& #39;t get is what their theory of change is. Is it that they& #39;ll get into an argument with someone who& #39;ll unwittingly toss their ideology over the transoms of supporters-in-waiting who just haven& #39;t heard the gospel (AKA the Milo Yiannopolis strategy)?
Is it to flood the zone with bullshit (Bannonism/IRA)? Is it a cargo-cult attempt to game the Twitter algorithm? Is it some cult leader who just needs to keep their followers busy with something that feels like something?
I& #39;ve been getting it for weeks now, and it& #39;s mystifying. Some of these turdgarglers send "kill all N-word" style stuff that gets them banned when I report them, but most are just signal-boosting slogans unworthy of a pretend protest movement in a discarded Monkees script.
It& #39;s just bizarre. Anyone got a theory?
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He seems nice.
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