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Zero22xx  ·  2017 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Study: Nearly Half Of Anti-‘The Last Jedi’ Tweets Were Bots

So is everything bots these days? I know that this is the Onion but this seems to be the general consensus. Why does everything have to be sociopolitical? Are there still stories being created for the sake of a fun story without everyone needing to turn it into a soapbox? Am I allowed dislike things like bombs being dropped in space or Leia suddenly becoming a master force user after being blasted out into space or does that mean I'm a Russian bot and I hate women? For what it's worth, in my opinion they're all very silly movies that you have to switch your brain off in order to completely enjoy, including the original trilogy. They're all kinda overrated. Does having this opinion make me the worst kind of bigoted Russian troll bot?

This 'Russian troll' scare is really starting to make it seem like people were born yesterday. Guess what, we always had 'fake news'. Back in the day we used to call it 'propaganda' and it's something that every organisation and government uses, on it's own people as well as everyone else. Your government does it too. Guess what, we always had this kind of 'troll'. Back in the day they were called 'shills' and it's something that every government and organisation uses to spread their propaganda or message or adverts. And here's one more 'guess what', and this is a big one. Not everyone that doesn't share your opinion is a troll or a bot trying to spread some shitty sociopolitical message and not all art is a soapbox. Sometimes a story is just a story and people just call it good or bad based on their personal feelings of it.