reply to post by jude11
On the other hand...
1) There are so many Pro- Ron Paul posts and a huge number of Pro Ron Paul "bumper stickers" used for signatures by ATS members; yet, in REAL life,
I don't know a single person who plans to vote for him.
So, according to the Internet, he has 90% of all voters, plus the rest of the world, clamoring for him to be crowned emperor.
Most everyone knows that the Ron Paul's campaign strategy has been in exploiting the Internet to appear as if a ground-swell of support has existed,
and so the apparent Internet support will not translate into votes.
Most everyone knows (except, perhaps, conspiracy theorists) not to believe everything you read on the Internet.
We know who they are.
2) Likewise, most everyone knows that if a picture of some light in the sky is given as evidence of alien life-- it will not be. After hundred of
those posts-- we just know without needing to bother to look.
We know who they are, as well.
3) The vast number of threads complaining about there being so many posts critical of the OWS. It was make believe to garner sympathy, and most
people knew it.
We know who they are.
SO...
What can we learn from this?
That people make up stuff and use the Internet to garner support, demonize opponents, sell stuff, mislead people, or make themselves important. Very
little teaching takes place without an agenda, and that agenda is almost always about money and power.
And I am so right about everything I just posted, I might start signing up my other email accounts to become at least five more ATS "members" and
star my own posts, then post four items talking about how clever "Frira" is, and use another "member" account to portray an idiot who is full of
hate and ignorance, cannot spell, much less conjugate a verb and who, of course, holds the opposite position.