I hope you didn't take this Antifa Twitter account seriously

a reply to: knowledgehunter0986

Balance each other out in what way? By creating extremists on both sides? That's not a balance I want.

Trying to influence people in other countries is nothing new. The CIA has been doing it for decades. The 'net makes a tool available to every one and every government.

a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

I was merely playing along with your silly argument. What balance do you want? Remove all the pro trump bots and leave the anti trump bots?

Surely you are not new to this thing, called the internet.

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

I have to wonder how else we are being manipulated.

You can only be manipulated if you allow yourself to be manipulated.

I see right thru the hysteria from the media and the extremists throughout America.

a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

Yeah I found a thread and it was taken seriously by a lot of people. Of course the location can be spoofed, but let's assume it wasn't. Russians are trained in computers early and vigorously. It might be the Kremlin trying to destroy democracy or whatever, but it also might be any average citizen just trying to make a few bucks pandering to whatever is trending and can generate clicks.

We are so outclassed by them it's scary. Check out what each of them are exposed to by high school:

The core components of the FES informatics curriculum for Russian middle schools are the following:
1. Theoretical foundations
2. Principles of computer’s functioning
3. Information technologies
4. Network technologies
5. Algorithmization
6. Languages and methods of programming
7. Modeling
8. Informatics and Society

krebsonsecurity.com...

a reply to: knowledgehunter0986

What was my argument? You seem to be assuming again. When did I say only one side should be removed? Didn't I JUST say I didn't want extremists being created on EITHER side?

Reading comprehension my friend, you seem to be letting something get in the way of reading my posts clearly.

a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

I said

For every pro-Trump Russian bot, there is an anti-Trump bot.

You said

And there's a sucker born every minute on both sides. I think you know what I mean by that.

I said

So i guess they balance each other out then. No worries, right? Or should we continue focusing on the Russian bots?

You said

Balance each other out in what way? By creating extremists on both sides? That's not a balance I want.

I said

I was merely playing along with your silly argument. What balance do you want? Remove all the pro trump bots and leave the anti trump bots?

There is nothing wrong with my reading comprehension, but there might be something wrong with yours.

a reply to: knowledgehunter0986

Oh, so you thought I was commenting on you saying we should focus on Russian bots? I was actually referring to your comment about both sides balancing each other out, to which I replied that I didn't want extremists created on either side. You somehow got out of that that I was saying to only remove one side.

Yes, your reading comprehension is lacking at the moment because you completely missed the point I was making and misread my comment.

Makes me wonder if the ANTIFA members on here are Russians, as well.

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Makes me wonder if the ANTIFA members on here are Russians, as well.

Well that Russian based Antifa account disappearing and the arrest of that crazy Russian cannibal did happen at eerily similar points in time.

Suspicious, eh?

a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

What are you even saying? You're all over the place, I didn't misread anything.

The point is you have just acknowledged both sides having bots, but only seem interested in discussing the russian one's. Hence my joke of

Or should we continue focusing on the Russian bots?

On top of reading comprehension, reading between the lines is also required my friend.

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Makes me wonder if the ANTIFA members on here are Russians, as well.

If Joe was alive today he would have said the same thing.

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Makes me wonder if the ANTIFA members on here are Russians, as well.

What if we're actually in Russia, and Antifa is trying to save us!

originally posted by: DBCowboy

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Makes me wonder if the ANTIFA members on here are Russians, as well.

What if we're actually in Russia, and Antifa is trying to save us!

You just had to say that on ATS, a site full of paranoid people!

originally posted by: MysticPearl

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

I have to wonder how else we are being manipulated.

You can only be manipulated if you allow yourself to be manipulated.

I see right thru the hysteria from the media and the extremists throughout America.

I think we all get played to one degree or another.

a reply to: knowledgehunter0986

When have I denied there are bots on both sides? I simply saw this post on Reddit and decided to post it here for other members thoughts on it. Have I said at any point in this thread or any other thread that bots are limited to one side and one side only? Because you seem to think that's what I believe. You'd be wrong, you know what they say about assuming.you've been doing a lot if that in this thread so far.

Fake accounts are an issue on both sides, when did I ever say otherwise? Just because this is the one I saw and decided to post it does not mean I believe it is unique to the right or left.

originally posted by: Deaf Alien

originally posted by: DBCowboy

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Makes me wonder if the ANTIFA members on here are Russians, as well.

What if we're actually in Russia, and Antifa is trying to save us!

You just had to say that on ATS, a site full of paranoid people!

Sorry, Tovarich.

It's immaterial. There are enough statements from other Antifa sources to demonstrate at least a number of them believe in violence, anarcho-communist revolution, etc.

a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

You are taking this argument to a totally different place. Straw man galore.

Also if your'e telling me not to assume, you should probably make sure your'e not assuming yourself in the same sentence.

But I might as well assume again and say your intentions were pretty obvious, regardless how covert you wanted it to be.

originally posted by: Deaf Alien

originally posted by: IAMTAT
Makes me wonder if the ANTIFA members on here are Russians, as well.

If Joe was alive today he would have said the same thing.

LOL...you made me spit up my borscht!