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wait seriously?

Yes. Seriously.

Trolling antisocialists is ridiculously easy. In 2019, I used one my prank caller accounts on Reddit to trick dozens of them into upvoting two sets of deliberately miscaptioned photographs. Some antisocialists have such ridiculously broad definitions of socialism that it is only a mild exaggeration to summarize their understandings as ‘capitalism = good things; socialism = bad things’.

Manipulating them into agreeing with fascists is not too difficult either. I am not referring to mundane, generic conclusions like ‘always follow your heart’ or ‘brushing your teeth is good for you’. I mean unambiguously political statements, like ‘Bolshevism could maintain its social illusion only because its deceived population lacked any opportunity for comparison.’

I remember ChapoTrapHouse, when it still existed on Reddit, ignorantly upvoting an anticommunist quote misattributed to a communist thinker, but if I remember correctly it was just some generic, inspirational crap that had little to do with politics. Sure, it was still careless of CTH to upvote that without researching, but it was much less impressive than the prankster thought that it was.

ETA: This was probably the quote, in which case it was only slightly more political than I remembered.