Thread by @17cShyteposter

This is how progressives have been engineering "democracy" for years now, remember that the idea isn't to engage in discussion/debate, it's to bypass it through carefully designed rhetoric

Big data various iterations of propaganda until you find the form that achieves the goal

https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1395472085275848708

This was formerly achieved by passing the winning iteration to journalists who would then distribute it to the public

So once you've got enough data, it becomes possible to program JournoBots to guide unruly citizens through their dialogue tree to reach the approved conclusions

Of course normal people recoil at hearing the NYT say "So we built a little propaganda machine to help you route-around your fellow citizen's concerns in real time lol"

But this is all second nature to journalists, who've been steeped in this process for a long time

Even I would have been at least skeptical of this, mayb even considered it a conspiracy theory, or a "big if true"

Until they began openly bragging about it in their various pieces on "fortifying the election." They're the ones who admitted it, I'm just taking them at their word

And in fairness it's not like rhetoric as a means of shortcutting truth to convince the people is some new thing, I mean the Athenians didn't make it a field of study just for fun

The thing is these processes used to require a human element to them

An actual person getting up there and "fortifying" his logical position with emotion, spirit, bravado, humor, all these things that draw you in to the argument and make you feel part of it, truly believe it, because though these things may be irrational, they are still very real

It might be manipulative, in the sense that it admits it's not "pure reason," and that a man's gut often has as much influence over his decisions as his mind

But you still had to be made to feel it

And that is what exposes this new process for what it is: something with no natural instincts from the gut, something that *fakes* them, by lab-testing your responses to what it wants until it gets what it wants

It is a system, in other words, designed to hack your guts

It's no wonder, then, that's exactly what it feels like to be subjected to it

A process of manipulation, stripped of all the human elements that could make you still feel part of it, until it is fully inhuman, and fully alienating to the people it makes its captives.