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I hate to get into this, but I'm impressed by the ideological juggling. A conspiracy theory about minorities being anti-minority to weaken the majority by provoking them to anger against minorities?

I suppose I'm falling for the trolling right now.

EDIT: I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that OP was referring to individual "Africans and Indians" from the US. I suppose it does make some sense if we are talking about organised action from foreign powers.





> I suppose it does make some sense if we are talking about organised action from foreign powers.

It doesn't even have to be organized.

Ragebait gets clicks. X pays out for engagement. (https://help.x.com/en/using-x/creator-revenue-sharing) The amounts are low by US standards, but nice pay by developing world standards. Thus, a cottage industry of fake accounts arises, without needing nation-scale organization behind it.


That's a fair point, I appreciate being taught something new.

Africans and Indians are not minorities. Sure, if they live in the US, but I'm pretty sure OP referring to people in other countries.

What part of wanting destabilisation for the most powerful country in the world is hard to understand for those that aren't from there?

It’s not trolling. When twitter turned on locations a few weeks ago many of the top maga accounts were revealed to be operating out of Russia or India.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo.amp


You’ll have to decide under “About this account” whether this True American might have intelligently chosen a VPN endpoint in those regions.



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