Thread by @wmcarterelliott

There's another reason for Trump supporters having poor spelling skills - GRU-Trolls rely solely on software that translates *this* text into spoken English, and verbal responses back into English like *this*, in raw text.

At Russian schools, Conversational English is required.

https://twitter.com/jbaby56/status/1330221716291932160

When we receive a Pro-Trump post w/ the wrong "there/their/they're", but the big words are spelled correctly, it's evidence that the GRU-Trolls can speak English, but can't read or write English.

I've tested the hypothesis, and found the clear pattern: GRU-Trolling is a low-wage

https://twitter.com/wmcarterelliott/status/1330233423512924166

job. It's like being a "Technical Representative" at the cable company. They have flip-cards for how to handle our responses. They aren't Masterminds, just average slobs that can *converse* in English. When *their* answer has "their" in it, the speech recognition software offers

a list of possible versions:

There
Their
They're

... And it's their job to pick which one is right.

But they can't read English anymore than I can read Chinese. So they guess.

Remember all the jokes we made about how Trumpanzees were illiterate?

The GRU-Trolls are illiterate

In English, that is. Conversant, but can't understand which "there" is the right one.

I noticed this during a prolonged debate with a "Texan" who says AR-15s are great "dear rifles".

I responded with this Google screencap on the best DEER rifles.

Does this look like a meme?

He (?) responded w/ a prepared response to an abusive meme.

He didn't recognize it was a Google search screencap.

He proceeded to praise the AR-15's large-capacity magazine, saying that if his first shot missed, it gave him 19 more tries to kill it.

Any deer hunters out there?

I don't hunt, but I know people who do, and taking out a deer in a fusillade of low-caliber bullets is repugnant to their credo - "One shot, one kill." (That's where "Deer Hunter" got that line.)

So, I found a bunch of inoffensive photos and used them to ID suspected GRU-Trolls.

I caught a few hundred GRU-Trolls with such simple reading tests as these:

They responded as their flipbook instructed - they changed the subject with an insult which, according to their Militarized Psych 101 software, should "trigger" me into an angry response, allowing the evidence of their illiteracy to be passed-over.

Sometimes I trigger them.

... Enough to get them to ask their Supervisor for help reading English so they can continue to pretend to be American.

That doesn't always work out well for them.

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