It’s worse than that. I have no idea why it’s apparently important enough to me for me to want to investigate as much as I have, but just from the last few days:
Here, I ask one of them what he thinks about a topic not connected to the election and he angrily refuses to answer because I must be trying to trick him or something.
Here one of them lapses into total nonsense when forced to go beyond his talking points; he says that Biden wasn’t trying hard enough to make change, and when I point out concrete ways that Biden actually enacted what he was talking about and was sometimes overruled on it, he said that Biden could have ignored the Supreme Court’s cancellation of his order because it “doesn’t have an enforcement arm”.
I have a bunch more examples. But generally they are articulate and on-the-surface sensible when spouting one of a handful of talking points in a variety of different contexts and with different decoration around them, but anything outside that, they react like no human being I’ve ever had a conversation with.
Which is why many of them probably aren’t. They’re agitators from outside the US. At best, very poorly informed people from other countries with some obsession with US politics. At worst, people intending to spread misinformation.
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It’s worse than that. I have no idea why it’s apparently important enough to me for me to want to investigate as much as I have, but just from the last few days:
I have a bunch more examples. But generally they are articulate and on-the-surface sensible when spouting one of a handful of talking points in a variety of different contexts and with different decoration around them, but anything outside that, they react like no human being I’ve ever had a conversation with.
Which is why many of them probably aren’t. They’re agitators from outside the US. At best, very poorly informed people from other countries with some obsession with US politics. At worst, people intending to spread misinformation.