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#ThoughtExperiment (fictional!)

It's the early noughties. My PR company is part of a global viral marking campaign, funded by the G8, WTO, IMF, WB, WEF etc. They're annoyed by the networked activist movement whose massive global protests keeps shutting down their photo op meetings, and distracting the news media from making them look good. We're tasked with coming up with a strategy for breaking up these networks and keeping them from reforming.

How could we possibly do that?
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Strypey 2y ago

#ThoughtExperiment

Then some intern at my company comes up with a genius idea, that I will, of course, take credit for.

What we do, they say, is seed two lots of mutually contradictory ideas into their networks.

One, we troll the well-meaning but gullible old-school-unionist and eco-nationalist types with all sorts of vaguely plausible-sounding anti-corporate conspiracy theories. All of them built around tropes that sound vaguely crypto-fascist if you squint at them the right way.

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Strypey 2y ago

Two, we patiently prime the rest of them with a set of bloody-minded dogmas.

One that says anyone who says anything even vaguely crypto-fascist - even if it only looks that way if you squint at just right - is definitely a Nazi and planning to enslave women and kill gay people. Then another one that says anyone that sounds even vaguely like a Nazi must be mercilessly purged, and never spoken to again. Then another one that says anyone who talks to people who might be Nazis is a Nazi.

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