and replacing it with an autocratic system where its run like a corporation.
So basically a far more expensive China.
I get the sense it’s something slightly different, the union of troll farms funded and used by autocratic oligarchs along with the influence farms fostered by the conservative think farms to influence Silicon Valley leaders. It’s like how Scientology tried to influence Hollywood, but on a much more massive scale. I don’t think this was a plan, I think this was power concentrated too much in one place and its inevitable corruption by psychopaths just interested in how it benefits them.
Not really. Seeing the same assholes succeeding at playing the best psychopaths in games like Eve Online, moderating the discussion outside of the game to maximize their success in places like the eve subreddit, but also moderating the conservative subreddit in reddit makes all the sense to me. It might seem insane to associate how they act in a game to how they act in real life, but that is all life is to them, a game to exploit. People are throwing the same sort of gaslighting memes in conservative networks than they throw in meaningless made-up factions.
Not all the players are like that, but you can bet it attracts and trains the psychopaths that become the most successful at it inside and out. If you have an image host that allows anything to be uploaded and makes a point of not censuring, it’s going to get bad, real bad, and this is very similar to it. But it also gives people the opportunity to see how these sort of people see the world in a controlled environment - if you can weather it and not get charmed by the rhetoric yourself, you’ll see that if they can make this shit up on meaningless divisions, they can certainly do it with charged politics.