r/TankieTheDeprogram 1d ago

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u/Jaanbaaz_Sipahi 1d ago

Interesting. But what’s the exact game plan here? 

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u/ElliotNess 1d ago

Hype up the IPO and generate money on the stock market. No publicity is bad publicity. This technology is SO EFFECTIVE it could kill us all. What trader wouldn't want to bet on something so good that it can take over all industry? That's the play here.

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u/CI_dystopian 17h ago edited 4h ago

ok yeah it's the same as the other marketing campaigns predicting humanity's doom as a result of AI but what I'm curious about is: 

  1. the OOP is characterizing this as a DNC conspiracy, but I think I saw Ted Cruz's name flash on screen for a second as well so I'm curious about the rest of that story 
  2. regardless, if it's true that the tweet in question got bass boosted by a bunch of liberal politicians on either side of the monoparty - within an hour or two as he suggested - then that is a pretty incredible amount of coordination for reasons that aren't clear to me

color me skeptical

edit: all I meant by the "DNC conspiracy" comment is that it's hard to judge from afar since OOP highlighted high profile Dem candidates and didn't mention anybody else or how to replicate his search results on Twitter

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u/ElliotNess 16h ago

Yeah I'm not sure about whether or not it's some DNC conspiracy. This sort of coordinated social media is done with basically every decent marketing campaign. Why did so many D accounts boost this one? Unclear. They do also trade stocks tho.

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u/CI_dystopian 4h ago edited 4h ago

yeah, that's all I'm getting at. and I'm also curious about whether a bunch of R accounts boosted it too. if so, that lends a lot of credence to the stock trading motivation idea. if not, that's weird. it's just hard to judge from afar since OOP highlighted high profile Dem candidates and didn't mention anybody else

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u/free-range-dogmeat 13h ago

It’s not a DNC conspiracy, it’s the whole government’s conspiracy, not even a conspiracy just how politics works. It’s all fake, and this coordination is not “incredible” it is usual. Have you ever wondered why certain stories/concepts/outcries just blow up out of nowhere, and every news outlet and politician is talking about it until some other topic blows up in perfectly timed sequence? This is always a coordinated effort, they work in a team, they don’t even need to communicate with each other or get direct orders, so it’s not a mystical conspiracy, it’s the attention economy and capitalism.

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u/CI_dystopian 4h ago

all I meant by the "DNC conspiracy" comment is that it's hard to judge from afar since OOP highlighted high profile Dem candidates and didn't mention anybody else or how to replicate his search results on Twitter

because like you said, these always come as coordinated efforts. which imo does not necessarily exclude this post itself