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If I wanted to destabilise a country with active pysops, to really screw with the social fabric, turn neighbour against neighbour, erode trust, stoke paranoia and lay the groundwork for a "Leave the world behind" style tinderbox ripe for descent into civil war - then these are exactly the kind of products and ideas I would aggressively market.


In case you missed it, this is already happening en masse. Follow the bread crumbs for many of the most prolific shit stirrers on Twitter[1] and they are, or lead to Russian sockpuppet accounts.

China does this, too but not as effectively, perhaps due to them not getting our culture as well.

1. This is just from my experiencing chasing sock puppets on Twitter. And sockpuppets are everywhere on Twitter. You've already encountered them. They typically make you mad, or discontent, or angry toward your supposed fellow Americans. Presumably they do this on other social networks, also.


That's already part of Chinese propoganda, isn't it?




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