Look at this poster. I am an illustrator, designer, and have participated in marches and protests since occupy wall st and I’ve never seen a poster like this. This poster appeared all over Reddit in days, with some minor changes. Sometimes it’s an LGBT flag instead of US flag.
This is what stands out besides it’s sudden ubiquitous appearance. It looks bad, and I’m not judging it harshly, I believe it’s designed to look like bad design. Most of the time this happens, some indie artist redesigns the flyer and THAT flyer becomes the popular one. It’s missing key information – there’s no credit for the piece, no organizers, no cooperating groups, nothing listed to reveal its source. I’ve never seen anything like it, it looks like anyone just made it in five minutes, which is the point.
Let’s talk about Astroturfing. The Reddit says the usual cliches: don’t be photographed, no central leadership. Now in any group that says no central leadership you can still find a central core and within it, the leader. Not only can you find them, they out themselves to media and if no leader emerges, the local color shows up and steals the show. Think: dude in a bison hat. But when you Astro turf, the leaders really are missing. Suddenly pink pussy hats are already manufactured just in time, just like the 50501 poster showed up all over Reddit at the same time.
Go check out the Reddit and you will see not many remembered the no face rule bc these protests are not about change but about clout chasing. They can’t help but identify themselves. Tons of quippy quotes with fully identifiable smiling faces. Now anyone can surf this buffet of Intelligence and if you follow the community members ain’t no way they as anonymous as they think they are.
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Also wanted to add: previous protests of the year and in general have a large indigenous and minority cohort so I find it extremely bizarre that after more than a year of intense pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests that these two groups are strangely absent. It would be very difficult to organize this protest without answering whether the sticky Zionist question. It is entirely avoided, even having the word jew replaced with immigrant…
This happened once before. The pink pussy hat protest was a similar Astro turf protest, and at least then there was still the focus on womens rights. But everything else was muted. Now even the focus on women is gone. It’s just generic protest #50501
If you read the posts in that forum, they said they made their voices heard and they made history, but I can’t be convinced the voice they heard wasn’t canned audio from a radio speaker.
I know it’s confusing OP but this is what a real grassroots protest looks like. Unlike a certain protest on Jan 6. 4 years ago.
Commie propaganda behind an American flag, nothing new.
That’s some shitty trump propaganda !
What concentration camps? And what illegal ICE raids? 🤡
You’re the government op.
Good luck with that. Just don’t catch a charge while doing them.
Anytime you post a new conspiracy on r/conspiracy I get to meet my fbi handlers who operate in this sub to keep the conspiracies focused on only acceptable conspiracies. I swear for a page about conspiracies, the amount of canned responses you get to any new idea is ridiculous. It’s always like three people who say “touch grass” a few others asking for sources, sources for what would be secret information, or others just being unnecessarily hostile like a post on this forum single handedly made America worst for them. For all the talk about bot accounts, no one seems to consider that we were the bots all along. We might just be two intelligence agents fighting on troll farms separated by hundreds of miles
Duh.
Good shout. If I’m honest, this screams Russian disinfo campaign to me. Remember, the government now is Old Musky and his cronies. No way some government agency is putting something like this out with the threat of Doge coming in and finding out.
Quick question from a non-American. Is it spelt “State Capitol” if it is the state capital building in Kentucky? I thought the only Capitol was in DC?
Agreed. The government wants your name on a dissent list so you can be shipped to Venezuela.
Imagine all the brainwashed fools who are actually gonna show up to this nonsense.
Highly doubt since the government belongs to Elon Musk now… and i doubt he would approve of this…
Of course it is. Look how quickly these protests came together but nobody can organize against the federal reserve