Maybe. I certainly don't agree with everything Peterson says and I have my suspicions about him. That said I'd take what our good ol' mate Daze over here says with a grain of salt though, it seems he came here with an agenda to derrail my thread and turn the subject into Palestine even though there are plenty of Palestine threads on here. (Like half this forum is about Palestine now it seems)
Some people may be well intentioned or even have thoughtful arguments but I think a lot of hardline Hamas/Israel annihilation supporters online are bots tbh, the way they all spam comment sections with "Free Palestine" and the watermelon emojis is peak bot behaviour. Such bots are weaponized to sway public opinion. There are probably pro Israel bots but I don't see them so much. Anyway it's trendy to support Palestine now and Tiktok has a role in influencing young people in such a way with algorithms promoting pro-Palestine content and media changing its tune to be more pro Palestine too. All their favourite celebrities have got to be pro-Palestine or get cancelled. It's been so wild to see the media establishment left and woke culture applying a neo-Marxist lense to this ancient conflict and supporting what they would normally consider a 'far right theocracy' where gays are thrown off buildings. It's the same old thing of a handful of wealthy politicians and oligarchs like Hezbollah and Hamas throwing together a sob story and reeling in the cash from well-meaning people donating to charities. Sigh... Nothing new under the sun, but that doesn't make 'Queers for Palestine' any less crazy.
Well anyway... It's the in thing now and you can thank the bots for a lot of that!! The whole thing's a big distraction and the bots are weapons of mass distraction. The powers that be have AI bots which make ChatGPT look like a toddler's plaything. The bots you see nowadays which comment and then respond to eachother (You'll often see an irrelevant comment selling a 'financial service' or some other snake oil, with other bots replying) are just the tip of the iceberg. Almost half of the internet activities consist of bots
https://blog.barracuda.com/2023/10/18/threat-spotlight-bad-bot-traffic-changing
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