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riversedge

(70,047 posts)
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 11:30 AM Apr 2017

Isn't it amazing how Trumpers all have the exact same thoughts at the exact same time. It's almost a

Good eye.



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Isn't it amazing how Trumpers all have the exact same thoughts at the exact same time. It's almost as if they were Russian bots. LOL



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Isn't it amazing how Trumpers all have the exact same thoughts at the exact same time. It's almost a (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2017 OP
Also known as astro-turding, erm astro-turfing. Baitball Blogger Apr 2017 #1
At the very least, they are all getting the same talking points fed to them... Wounded Bear Apr 2017 #2
There's no doubt they get talking points from the same source. kacekwl Apr 2017 #23
To be fair, they all share the same brain. Solly Mack Apr 2017 #3
And I may have found it. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #7
Heh! lololol Solly Mack Apr 2017 #8
I think you need to tsuukiyomi Apr 2017 #18
clumby old fossil riversedge Apr 2017 #27
They also all forget to post the same link at the same time. They have a psychic network. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #4
That last 1/4 faced guy.... BlancheSplanchnik Apr 2017 #30
Are the names codes? We need to decipher some of this, figure out the troll army organization. L. Coyote Apr 2017 #31
gik craw.... BlancheSplanchnik Apr 2017 #32
They could also be Pod People tied together with a Collective Neural-Networked Hive Mentality. TheBlackAdder Apr 2017 #5
The Borg. Amaryllis Apr 2017 #14
I was nervous the first time I called out a fake Facebook profile gratuitous Apr 2017 #6
I called them out also kimbutgar Apr 2017 #12
Kind of like the Borg with one collective thought. Doreen Apr 2017 #9
Except The Borg Were Cool ProfessorGAC Apr 2017 #28
Who uses the word patrons? kimbutgar Apr 2017 #10
It's especially amazing since their normal mode is to all say different things.... LAS14 Apr 2017 #11
Probably more like zombies with a single consciousness askyagerz Apr 2017 #13
I have seen that john galt name on a number of sites, always the same kind of reichwingnut crap. niyad Apr 2017 #15
My Ex-Wife wanted a laptop all of a sudden several years ago cutroot Apr 2017 #16
Yikes! progressoid Apr 2017 #24
The Russian trolls are still working hard LiberalLovinLug Apr 2017 #17
Twitter needs to work at getting these fake accounts off. Maraya1969 Apr 2017 #19
Homeland this year. Same thing benld74 Apr 2017 #20
Hive mind. The drones know their place. Thor_MN Apr 2017 #21
just like all the previous bot works - piggybacking on talk radio certainot Apr 2017 #22
Videodrome. roamer65 Apr 2017 #25
Called the pox propoganda news affect. democratisphere Apr 2017 #26
Not just trumpsters DownriverDem Apr 2017 #29
K & R L. Coyote Apr 2017 #33

Wounded Bear

(58,584 posts)
2. At the very least, they are all getting the same talking points fed to them...
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 11:38 AM
Apr 2017

bots or beings, they are pretty monolithic.

kacekwl

(7,010 posts)
23. There's no doubt they get talking points from the same source.
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 12:09 AM
Apr 2017

Listen to the RW radio programs they all prech the same lines daily virtually word for word.

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)
3. To be fair, they all share the same brain.
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 11:39 AM
Apr 2017

And it isn't a very large to begin with; spread so thin, it is easier to repeat the same thought over and over again.

tsuukiyomi

(20 posts)
18. I think you need to
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 06:29 PM
Apr 2017

apologize to this fine piece of technology as surely a Trump supporter with their Confederate flags and idiotic racist values is clearly the dumber of the two.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
4. They also all forget to post the same link at the same time. They have a psychic network.
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 11:42 AM
Apr 2017


They also only have half of a face each and their parents gave them the weirdest names.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
30. That last 1/4 faced guy....
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 11:39 AM
Apr 2017

Bye, Felicia.



But to be fair---gik craw. I may have to make that my nomme de plume. Or just legally change to that's entirely! ITS AWESOME!
😆😆😆

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
31. Are the names codes? We need to decipher some of this, figure out the troll army organization.
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 12:11 PM
Apr 2017

Do these names have meaning for the other members of the League of Trolls? Do they lead back to real people and their IPs?

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. I was nervous the first time I called out a fake Facebook profile
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 11:43 AM
Apr 2017

You all know the type: 50-50 chance that there's no profile picture. You click through on the link to their Facebook page, and there's no history, no friends (or fewer than 10). I called out a fake profile, and waited apprehensively for a flood of twaddle from folks like Donald L. Luskin or I Am John Galt, but it never came.

kimbutgar

(21,040 posts)
10. Who uses the word patrons?
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 12:16 PM
Apr 2017

When I hear the word of patrons it's from my catholic school years knowing about patron saints.

LAS14

(13,769 posts)
11. It's especially amazing since their normal mode is to all say different things....
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 12:17 PM
Apr 2017

.... and the same people say different things on different days.

Total unpredictability.

niyad

(113,029 posts)
15. I have seen that john galt name on a number of sites, always the same kind of reichwingnut crap.
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 12:49 PM
Apr 2017

but, on the other sites, we get to play with the trolls.

cutroot

(873 posts)
16. My Ex-Wife wanted a laptop all of a sudden several years ago
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 01:58 PM
Apr 2017

She was taking it to her church. They would all meet in a room with one of the assistant pastors. He would coach them on how to attack and harass comments on various websites. I found out because she needed help with a virus problem. Of course I looked at her history. It bothered me so much that I decided it was time for me to remove all phony christians from my life.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,164 posts)
17. The Russian trolls are still working hard
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 02:10 PM
Apr 2017

I think its tempting to think that once they had their man in the WH, Putin and his criminal gang have stopped employing the army of trolls. Many who write and speak better English than Trump supporters. I think they are still littering comment sections on FB, on Twitter, on YouTube, and major MSM news sites. All to give the impression that Trump has overwhelming grass roots support.

Maraya1969

(22,459 posts)
19. Twitter needs to work at getting these fake accounts off.
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 08:16 PM
Apr 2017

I saw it done with China's assault on The Dalai Lama. There were stupid jerk "monks and nuns" that are a part of a rogue Buddhist group that a defrocked Tibetan Buddhist monk started. They followed him around the world and protested at all his speeches.

They also had a ton of fake Twitter account and they were just disgusting. They made up lies about the Dalai Lama.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
22. just like all the previous bot works - piggybacking on talk radio
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 10:06 PM
Apr 2017

a week before the inauguration, knowing there would be protests, limbaugh told his audience of millions that obama and several hundred organizers was arranging a lot of the protests and paying protestors with help from soros and clinton donors etc. he said they were giving $1500 or more per protestor or something like that, costing billions it turns out.

this is an extension of that same dynamic. the russians saw there was 30 years of well established talk radio alt reality to piggyback and blow up - invisible to the left. 25 years vs hillary. that's what most of the botwork was about.

how long's Putin been using talk radio? trump 2014, debt default in 2011, 'Climategate' '09?


DownriverDem

(6,226 posts)
29. Not just trumpsters
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 09:17 AM
Apr 2017

The repubs have been doing daily talking points for decades. They are all on the same page with bullshit for the public. Too bad folks were sucked in starting with Reagan. My hope is that many of those folks are leaving the planet daily.

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