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Neil D's avatar

Wise words as always Michael.

"If AI were given the task of changing our minds, or shaming us into silence, then after a few days it would have reviewed its progress, realised that simple name-calling wasn’t working, and would have started exploring other strategies."

This just prove something interesting: AI is certainly more intelligent than your average troll.

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Anne Meredith's avatar

✅ all good writings Michael

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Michele's avatar

As always you articulate the reality of this situation so well.

So appreciate you and sending uplifting healing vibes for your recovery.

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Ande's avatar

My, now ex oldest friend 😊 made a Facebook comment about going online to stir up Cookers. Trying to do some trolling. They forget that people are listening (silent) scrolling. The names don’t bother me, was called worse by kids in school, sad your oldest friend waited so long before also calling you names. What I find interesting is their need to talk, post shit on SM and never once stop and listen in a SM sense. You don’t even have to wait for the gossip bitch, SM is the gossip bitch, they tell you what they think of you and forget your listening. Still silently scroll by occasionally, saw their dad past away, just scrolled on, got no enthusiasm left to comfort.

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A Sense of Place Magazine's avatar

Yes, I got a few when I republished your news that you were in hospital. I was a bit surprised by the demented vitriol and deleted them all. I'm not providing a platform for psychopaths or sadists. Or paid disrupters. Remember your own words: "But we are not scrub bulls, for we are not livestock – unless we volunteer to act as though we are. What we are is unique slivers of the divine, each a possible hope for all of humanity. But that hope can only be seen if we allow it to shine. The best way for it to shine is to speak."

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Rita Montfroy's avatar

Love what you write.It helps me see the light

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Dr Rosemary Faire's avatar

If the global Covid PsyOp involved the military, why wouldn't they pay guys in uniforms (or "intelligence") to troll dissenters? They would have workshopped all this. If you're trained to kill people for a living, then trolling in the worst possible way would sort of be part of the job description, no?

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Tilly's avatar

I'll never forget the lesson when the lady who hosted The Biggest Loser Australia herself said 'I'm fat and I named my son Kai which is the Maori word for food'. Totally took the joy out of sharing that fact.

I think these people are stuck in an identity dynamic. Someone yesterday said to me ''Fake news' You must be MAGA' as if that was some kind of *ahem* trump card and everything I said could be dismissed. I think I was supposed to be mortally wounded. The disagreement was on the subject of RFK trying to figure out autism and I realised that if autism was my identity I would imagine I'd heard RFK say I destroy families. She abandoned the conversation but I was going to say that autism is a disease like herpes and I've known at least two families destroyed by herpes (that's how the families found out he was cheating) but no one is crying about me saying it destroys families because they don't identify with herpes.

I have never been upset by anything they say about anti vaxxers or any other slur because I'm not completely identified with my beliefs on one subject. This is what baffles them. Their world view is dominated by brands and you can't go off brand. I have sex this way therefore I vote like that therefore I 'trust science' therefore anything you say about any of those things is a direct hit on me personally. If you mention dementia and word salad I will go nuclear and I fully expect you to die when I say something cutting about orange man. Why haven't you died?!!

And don't get me started on what might happen to those identities if RFK does find the cause ...and a cure.

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