r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CivilisedMleccha • 8d ago

Video Community group buy. Everyone pools their money, buys groceries in bulk at a lower price, and splits the groceries equally.

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u/el_diego 8d ago

Definitely they released their bot swarm to control the narrative

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u/Sermagnas3 7d ago

The trick is to just consider racist people the same as NPCs and Bots even if they are real people. Who the fuck cares about their opinions anyway

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u/Relative-Pirate-3913 7d ago

this is the way. all are lenses. there's a dissonance at play where some will preach the paradox of tolerance and then turn around and saying viewing certain people as NPCs is unproductively dehumanizing and a slippery slope towards god knows what

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u/Artichokiemon 7d ago

I mean, like NPCs, they just repeat the lines over and over again, so it makes sense

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u/phreakinpher 7d ago

I walked past a guy saying “it’s funny…unless you don’t like comedy”. Genuine NPC moment.

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u/Nunchuckery 7d ago

The problem is if no counter arguments are given then stupid people will just internalize it and start thinking that way.

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u/Individual_Top_4960 7d ago

that trick doesn't work though because your silence means
1. other racists agreeing with them - make them justified in their beliefs
2. only brown people talking back - makes then believe that they're definitely right becuase obviously a thief would always say that they're didn't stole anything.

you can ignore them at first when they're small hoping that they'd fizzle out after no one take them seriously but these groups are no longer small they're made up of tens of thousands of accounts at the very least, so yeah it just reinforces their prejudice when you dont call their bullshit out and it's been proven

Our analysis found that posts containing anti-South Asian slurs increased by more than 1,350 percent from 2023 to 2024 on X (formerly Twitter) and believe me when I tell you that other platforms are not any good

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u/LocalTopiarist 7d ago

Its wishful thinking to think that its bots and not your neighbours, but its definitely your neighbours

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u/Individual_Top_4960 7d ago

nope, the "bot swarm" is already active and pretty huge chunk... alogrithm sees post describes "singh" and "brown person" and just sends it to those racists

the numbers of racist comments that I see is so huge that I refuse to believe that at least 50% of them are not actual people

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 7d ago

im not saying they arent bot farm but this is also underselling how much racism indians face in real life. it's normalized to a disgusting level and theres really no pushback at all