"They need us. We don’t need them”
These folks, by design, are annoying all of the time, but lately, things seem to be getting worse. After being captured on tape spouting an anti-semitic conspiracy theory, Kennedy doubled down with an incoherent gripe about not getting Secret Service protection, which mainly appeared to be an excuse to dog whistle “14” and “88,” which are understood as coded signals of support to neo-Nazis.
Im just… Yikes.
It’s really the Republicans that are bank rolling him as a spoiler candidate.
I think that’s just his last name doing the heavy lifting. Once you hear what he actually stands for (like being both antisemetic and supporting Israel no matter what they do), there’s probably not a huge constituency.
That’s probably why the media is amplifying him and not Marianne Williamson.
Isnt he a prolific anti-vaxer as well? But then held a fund raiser that required attendees to be vaxxed?
Perhaps, Musk can create some bots that auto respond in a shocker manner to the trolls so they keep paying for the blue checks. Sort of like what those dating sites did with the fake members.
First off, it’s funny that you think Musk can create software that works, and secondly, what bots on what dating sites??
He destroyed Twitter and made a shitty alt right page
Interesting take. I wonder how it will pan out.
All this, Ryan said, explains why the trolls “are getting more extreme and desperate.” The pool of people available to get attention from is shrinking, so the only way to keep the engagement rates as high is to say wilder and nastier things
If that happens then it will just implode quite rapidly. Regular users will just leave and that fuels the fire and Twitter just becomes yet another niche right wing echo chamber in no time.
I do question the claim that ‘the trolls are getting more extreme’ though. That seems like anecdotal evidence and I wonder if it’s actually happening. The author listed many examples of extreme views on Twitter but I could have done the same thing and made the same claim 5 years ago. There has always been loonies on there and some of them get worse and some don’t.
Naww poor widdle baby’s can’t scam people as easy now. Does the baby need their binky?
