The more concerning thing is that there other beings in my coma dream that would see an apple in the image that don't need to wake up, and the creators of the image took that into account
An analyst outlined that there likely wouldn't be an amphibious assault. That more likely they would first try to take over key airports and seaports with special forces. The waters on the strait are too treacherous and unpredictable for an amphibious assault and you would also have to account for where they would be landing
I didn't qualify my comment because I was just shit talking but seeing you're passionate about the subject let me further share some of my opinions.
I actually do believe that a place like lemmy could be used as testing grounds before bigger campaigns. I know this because I saw the first instances of Russian propaganda and Russian trolls in LiveLeak back in 2008. I see now a lot of the same strategies and talking points that they were employing a decade and a half ago. It feels as if liveleak was a sandbox where they honed a lot of their strategies before taking it to a wider audience.
That being said, I saw people crying about astroturfing on Lemmy because they were salty about something, when their clearly wasn't anything going on. Also, having dealt with it for decades I think it's pretty easy to pick up when trolls are present manipulating narratives. It's like seeing a bad actor in a play, you just knownthey are acting. And also, even as a sandbox I don't think there are armies of trolls dedicated to Lemmy. I can see maybe a handful of actors maybe coordinating. Hasbarah, who is clearly very active on Reddit, doesn't seem to have done much here on lemmy which would be fertile grounds for them. Same with the 50 Cent Army and Russian trolls.
Like when people say nationstates and corporations are astroturfing lemmy, I'm sure bruh, manipulating all those thousands of people will have dire geopolitical outcomes.
I use to be in corporate sales, did a lot of conferences. Even in the most "professional" corporations the sales team culture is pretty garbage. My company was a little bit wilder than the others so I know the kinds of people that would be capable of doing this type of shit. The only way I can describe is as shock value, kinda "look what we did haha" and Im pretty sure thats whats going on here. Pretty childish.
No, you made a pretty big assumption. I dont care that Hillarys emails were leaked and I would have liked Trumps emails to be leaked aswell.
My biggest issue with wikileaks was that they exposed the names of people spying for the US in enemy countries which put their lives in danger. All while censoring the names of Russian operatives in the Russian leaks.
The more concerning thing is that there other beings in my coma dream that would see an apple in the image that don't need to wake up, and the creators of the image took that into account