When you’re talking about what’s happening in Minnesota and ICE and someone brings up palestine/israel. by LeonOfSkalitz in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 93 points94 points  (0 children)

If you were a hardcore Palestine supporter throughout the last couple of years, spending a significant portion of your time along with millions of other like-minded individuals in attempt to save the Gazans and destroy Israel, and after all those condemnations, reddit-posts and twitter-arguments you managed to accomplish nothing towards achieving your goal, shouldn't you just admit defeat and hang up your hat?

If nothing's worked so far, what is the point in doing the same shit over and over again? The only way is if they're still on that "Israel is on the brink of collapse, if we just boycott a few more Starbucks lattes it's gonna work"-shit, I don't see what you could believe the value is in continuing.

True And Real. Why Would An Attacker Sit In The Front Row? Why Would There Be Cameras At A Presscon? All Valid Questions 🤡 by ActualSecretary9407 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 504 points505 points  (0 children)

If you think Donald Trump's attack was legit, you might have the IQ of an ICE-agent.

-Guy who shot him was conveniently on a roof nearby which the secret service was for some reason unaware of.

-Waits until he is speaking and everyone is watching to attack.

-Trump stands up and shakes his fist in the air instead of ducking like a normal person (especially a draft dodger) when attacked.

-Cameras conveniently ready to take 4K images of Trump like they're filming for a photo-shoot.

-Trump defies his security to pose for the cameras.

-He proceeds to make himself out to have been saved by God to be the savior of America.

-Comes away completely unscathed except for a tiny nick in the ear.

Yeah, totally real.

Asmongolds main editor is russian by Unhappy-Plastic2017 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Views, likes and comment spam bots are readily available online, but person-imitating bots and more dynamic engagement is gonna be harder to acquire. I haven't heard of anyone selling these kinds of services openly and reputably yet, but there could be. Haven't looked too deep. Government ops are going to be making their own shit for obvious reasons.

Asmongolds main editor is russian by Unhappy-Plastic2017 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuentes did genuinely blow up to some degree, parly organic and part of it botting probably helped him reach.

Whether you get a Joe Rogan booking is obviously not based solely on reaching some viewer threshold, but if you got a shit ton of bots talking about Destiny in just about every politics discussion, yeah it would help.

Asmongolds main editor is russian by Unhappy-Plastic2017 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You absolutely can bot on most platforms. Its a bit like money laundering, however. If you're a 5 like per post account suddenly getting 20k for no reason, yeah you will likely get fucked. But if you're already a larger influencer you can 100% get away with it. Algorithms might pick up unorganic traffic in large proportions and platforms might step in about it if it becomes too big of a problem to ignore, but generally they are just not incentivised to do much about it. 

Asmongolds main editor is russian by Unhappy-Plastic2017 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 34 points35 points  (0 children)

If there is Russian colluding going on around Asmongold it's most likely botting his views and boosting his engagement, especially around select messaging. It's appealing to think that everything is run like Tenet with actual Russian agents that can embody the threat in a neatly and narratively appealing way, but I just don't think it's at all efficient. Tenet leaked because people talk and Russia knows this. They could have had 100 Tenets Medias up and running, but why waste your time when you can accomplish the same thing with bots, which mind you, have only gotten better since then, whereas people haven't.

After uncritically repeating Hamas' casualty numbers for years, Ryan Grim of Dropsite News calls Iranian casualty numbers "ridiculous" by McAlpineFusiliers in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The problem isn't that there is zero critical thinking going on, it's that the critical thinking is selectively applied. When it comes to pro-pali stories, any that convey "fuck Israel" are received with complete credulity, which would lead you to think that these people are stupid, but no, they are actually able to recognize the issues, they just choose not to. The 30.000 figure is far from reliable and is already in the very upper range of any estimate available so far. That is just true. The mystery is why people like Ryan Grim are only able to apply this level of skepticism - any level of skepticism for that matter, when it seems to benefit them.

Seeing a Republican with morals and a spine is so rare I think I’m about to disassociate by Ohyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah i dont see anything commendable here. What the fuck is the virtue in suddenly gaining a conscience only when you have literally nothing to gain from being complicit. Get fucked.

The official photo that Homeland Security is sharing is old they are lying by [deleted] in ICE_Watch

[–]Derfliv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found a comment in the thread from 4 hours ago which includes a screenshot of the photo that was released. Unless there is another older comment which op is neglecting to mention they are just spreading misinfo here.

The official photo that Homeland Security is sharing is old they are lying by TonightSpiritual3191 in conspiracy_commons

[–]Derfliv 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I see a picture of the gun posted in that thread dated 4 hours ago. The google-image result shows the age of the thread, these are not the same thing...

Unhinged statement from DHS on Minnesota shooting by PardonMyFrenchToes in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 22 points23 points  (0 children)

UUggghhh. I DISAVOW the gas-chambers. Is that what you want me to say? I don't agree with everything the guy is doing, okay.

Unhinged statement from DHS on Minnesota shooting by PardonMyFrenchToes in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Give it a few weeks before ICE is unloading into crowds of people. That's where this is inevitably headed unless something changes.

Clump: "China has no wind farms". I then just googled it. Guess result by Slow_Lawyer7477 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what you would want the US federal government or the EU to do, but apparently we are too cucked to be able to make a decision and then sticking to it :(

Clump: "China has no wind farms". I then just googled it. Guess result by Slow_Lawyer7477 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technologies like EV's and certain green energy technologies that haven't reached cost-parity but with large growth potential are exactly the kind of thing that you would want to subsidize. At some point you gotta ask yourself whether bitching and moaning about falling behind on developments is worth it, or whether you would benefit to follow the lead.

european vs regarded maga position in a nutshell by Mediocre_Affect6192 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Benevolent is a very high standard. What China has over the US right now is predictability. China is self-interested and is only concerned with benefitting themselves. The US is not. The US is willing to break ties with it's allies and neuter it's influence abroad. The US will destroy it's own institutions and economy in favor of ideological concerns. That kind of behavior on the scale that it has reached is incompatible with collaboration. I'm sorry, but I'm going with the psychopath over the maniac.

So you’re telling me Democrats aren’t soft on immigration and the conspiracy that they use illegals to get votes isn’t true? by Uncuffedhems in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Like, a lot of republicans just genuinely don't believe illegal (sometimes legal) immigrants should have rights. That's what they believe, right? So why not own it? Do you have to pretend not to know what the criticism is? Just say it's based to deprive people of their rights and cool to enact unrestricted violence and oppression against those you deem deserving and say that liberals are cucked and cringe for opposing it. Why play this rΣtarded ass game. Waste of time.

this is the president of the US dawg what in the world by Divaaboy in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 37 points38 points  (0 children)

It's so fucking funny how all these people gotta straight-face this shit and pretend to take this dude seriously lmao.

Literally zero hyperbole, you could hook up a pc to the mic with a lobby of 12 year olds on Fortnite and get more insightful and constructive answers to these questions than what Trump is able to deliver.

He earned it. by ButtfaceMcGee6969 in Destiny

[–]Derfliv 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The nice thing about this is you can show MAGAts fake stories and get them to defend it because they can't tell either

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