DaveFoster
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Paid trolling seems wasteful. Paid protesting on the other hand: very effective.Unfortunately No. Personally, I think most trolls are paid by third party subcontractors to hide any direct paper trail.
I think paid trolling is widespread, but I have no proof yet. I am hoping to find proof.
Private interests finance social movements in the U.S. Celebrities and media figures could be thought of as political representatives, and any controlled media apparatus can center the public eye on preferred loci, such as, internationally as false flags in rival nations, or domestically with speeches and selected samples of a movement, such as, respectively the most well-versed on the side of the establishment, and the most inarticulate from the opposing base.
Enforce your credibility through formal accreditation and promote, advance and publicly adorn those with expertise sympathetic to your narrative. Soft power attracts less criticism, where institutions and methods of inquiry become immortalized, and where any dissent equates to heresy. However, whereas actual heretics appealed to human faculties as separate entities from Church doctrine, "quacks, conspiracy theorists, and other disreputable sources" must overcome a directed counter to empiricism: an academic system that healthfully should simplify one's pursuit of truth but has, in concert with a concomitant manipulation of the public sphere, been co-opted to cauterize both a library and seat of knowledge supportive of parasitical interests.
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