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Sort of but like the post is saying, I've been way more right then wrong over my life. The amount of times I've argued online with people about things only to have that thing become the big issue 5 years from the point I was arguing it is disgusting. I remember 20 years ago sitting in a bay at work being made fun of because I kept talking about Russia and how they have started to allocate a higher percentage of their budget to cyber warfare that was unseen in budgets outside of wartime. It indicated they were building something. Stuff like that I get hyper interested in. I think I have a good nose for sources. I get into those sources and then find some weird thing nobody else is aware of and then you're just aware of this looming issue and all you can do is watch it unfold.
Same thing with online bots. I can see when certain activity spikes. Certain topics get AstroTurfed and all of a sudden we're talking about nuclear power for a week or some other topic that is really a facade for some bigger issue we're slowly being steered towards. AI was a big one, go to any AI article and tell me that is not the exact same approach Republicans use against immigrants. It's the same fucking thing. "they're taking your job" "they're going to destroy your culture" "they're coming after your women and children" "They're using up all the resouces"
AI has it's issues. But you cannot convince me that there wasn't something pushing articles and headlines on left wing spaces when it was first introduced. There was a massive push to set the tone.