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The people who complain about bots never seem to identify bots posting things that they agree with.

"the bots" is the new false consciousness, it is a deliberate attempt to avoid engaging





Or its easier to talk about pro party X bots, in a space that is pro party Y? and harder to talk about pro party Y bots in a space that is pro party Y.

I believe that black lives matter, but also thought it made a lot of sense that the movement and branding of it could have been bot-driven to engineer a culture war.



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