I know one thing for sure, I'm highly skeptical that this place is nothing more than a govt honeypot (to TTID).
Seeing accounts - such as OP's - with hundreds of thousands of alleged post upvotes while only having a handful of posts (with <50 upvotes total) solidifies that skepticism.
Where did the 265k post "score" come from? Where did the 28k comment "score" come from? This platform simply isn't large enough to see values that high. It's not just improbable, but completely 100% impossible. It's indicative of a fed, that's without even considering the obvious bait content.
Sorry to hear about your friend. However, she's a great but unfortunate example of the LCD demographic - the Lowest Common Denominators - and how their fear can be used against them... And in turn, against others. Theoretically, it's likely she convinced at least 1-2 other people to get the shots... That person then likely convinced 1-2 more, and so on.
My own mother is firmly planted in the LCD demographic; it took her 3 shots and 1.5 years of me explaining it for her to see the forest for the trees. She was raised privileged and pampered and excelled in school, she's also an RN. On the other hand, my stepfather is cold as ice and grew up hard, he adamantly rejected the shots without my input required.
LCD isn't just about the intelligence quotient either. It really just boils down to lacking general "common sense" and being susceptible to "trust the science" types of rhetoric. In the US, the LCDs are just as prevalent in the "college educated" demographic as they are the "could barely graduate highschool" demographic.
You've either grossly misunderstood what I said, or you're purposefully being obtuse.
I didn't say poor people are inherently stupid, nor did I say they're the only ones who got the gene therapy. Being poor doesn't equate to lacking education. Similarly, possessing education doesn't equate to possessing financial wealth.
In fact, the correct term isn't "poor people" at all, that's just how OP was framing it and thus how I framed my reply. The proper term is "lowest common denominators". Long story short, the idiots and morons. I was going to be offending people either way so it is what it is.
Regardless, what I said was, "poor people" are the largest social group in the US (this is a fact) and thus have the largest amount of useful idiots (this is a fact) and gullible fools (also a fact) to spread propaganda to the rest of the population - including within their own demographic. AKA, they have the largest distribution of the lowest common denominators.
That's not to say that other demographics don't have their own useful idiots and gullible fools, but we're effectively comparing handfuls to dump truck loads and thus the former is irrelevant. When it comes to effectively spreading propaganda across an entire society, you need a big group of useful idiots to really get it going.
This is the basis of how modern propaganda works. It starts with convincing the largest group which subsequently results in convincing the smallest groups. Eventually, enough people from all the groups believe "it" that the few who don't ultimately won't matter one way or another.
This to say, It doesn't necessarily matter if 1 person believes something, but if you can say "100000 people" do, that 1 person is insurmountably more likely to believe it as well - based entirely on social proof.
Before it's brought up as an "ah-ha!", social proof can also function based on the influence of just a single person if they have a large and obedient following. But that's primarily rooted in the "proof" that stems from the following as they agree without question. Like a shepherd and a flock of sheep. Hence celebrities being used as props and "top doctors" sprouting up everywhere.
If there's still hesitancy, then you shame them; "Hey, you without the bloodclots, those 999 other people got the jab so why haven't you? You're the only one without clots and they all think you're crazy."
It's just how the human brain works. Not EVERY human's, but the majority. We're herd animals after all. If you want to see how easy this is to manipulate, stand downtown when it's busy and stare inquisitively up at the sky. Eventually, 1 other person will. Then 2 more, then 3 more, then all of a sudden 3/4 of everyone on the block is looking up... At nothing. The first couple might have been curious but everyone after is just a sheep following the flock.
You can argue with this all you want, if you want, but you're just arguing against facts. Social proof is the most powerful tool propagandists have and it all starts with the largest group of useful idiots. This group is, almost 100% of the time, considered the "poor people", but more accurately referred to as the LCDs.
Who do you think the free donuts and $10 gift cards were for?
They weren't for pilots, doctors, nurses, EMT, etc.
They were for the poor people.
But even there, poor people are typically the largest group of idiots and subsequently the most gullible. They don't require special coercion, they simply need to be told something then hear about/see 1-5 other people do it and that's good enough.
That's literally the basis of how propaganda/idealogies are spread in a civilization. You start wit the lowest common denominator, AKA the biggest group of idiots, then go from there. Why? Because social proof is the most powerful tool a propagandist has against humans.
From there, they drag along the next group with a large percentage of useful idiots, the blue collars. Then so on and so forth. As you get higher up, you require stronger and stronger propaganda, but it's ALWAYS rooted in that original social proof. "look, these 100 people did it, why won't you? Are you afraid of a needle?"
Unsurprisingly, none show up after 30 minutes.
This place is absolutely and completely controlled by 4-5 people running numerous alt accounts.
They push their divisive bullshit and low-tier honeypot trash... But 👁️
I see you.
It's called social proof and it's exploited in every form of marketing that exists.
Inflated view counts, inflated vote counts, fake comments, fake reviews, it's all common practice in digital marketing.
Similarly, fake experts, fake reporting, etc, are also forms of social proof used in false-consensus marketing like we saw with masks and such.
No worries! That comment was [removed] within a couple hours after posting it. openmodlogs.xyz says it was amos, but I can understand the reasoning based on the comment they pinned... I guess...
Oh, I wasn't banned by /conspiracy, Reddit banned me. I had a relatively innocuous comment removed by their "anti-evil operations" in that thread, and about an hour later I was sitewide permabanned.
edit2: FOUND IT! https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/10nxclv/how_is_a_top_mod_of_topmindsofreddit_also_a_top/
But, my comment breaking down the mods aside from /Moranall was also deleted by /conspiracy mods... That said, Reveddit to the rescue: https://www.reveddit.com/v/conspiracy/comments/10nxclv/how_is_a_top_mod_of_topmindsofreddit_also_a_top/j6bgi77/
Long story short, all I did was summarize their mod's power structure.
One of their top mods, /akwardtheturtle, has well over 60,000,000 people under their "control" through modding subs like /art (22mil), /TwoXChromosomes (13mil), and /whomesomememes (13mil) to name a few. Plus TMOR of course.
/RalphiesBoogers has about 20,000,000 under their control.
/duckvimes runs subs like /actualconspiracies, /dylanroof, and /whiteeurope. Those last 2 definitely aren't blatantly obvious honeypots, I'm sure.
/facehammer mods /conspiratard (TMOR's foundation) and /GroupStalking plus numerous others.
This one is hilarious, /Moranall runs a plethora of subs, one being "/AgainstHateSubreddits" which is so hilarious ironic that I actually lold. They also mod /conspiracytheories
That was about long story short. The /conspiracy mods removed it, then I was inundated with people telling me to kill myself, then my account was sitewide permabanned with no offending comment linked. It literally said I was "breaking the rules" without citing anything specific.
edit: oh, and if you find that curious. One of the top /conspiracy mods is the only mod on /palantir. The other is suspended.
It was the right thing to do. I regularly called "people" out for talking bad about him because it was just baseless bullshit and obviously stemming from the cesspool of the internet, tmor.
Then I was sitewide permabanned right after posting about the power structure that the TuMOR mods control.
lmao you fucking feds are so insanely pathetic.
Worse yet, there's actually a possibility you're not a fed and instead, you're just a useful idiot doing this for free.
So which is it, fed or useful idiot?