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Yeah. That’s the much more damning piece to me - like if they said “Oh I’m from Brazil but I moved to the US as a kid” or “Yeah I’m not from the US but X Y Z”, you know, some kind of human reaction, then fine. I might still have suspicion but at least it is sensible.
The thing of “my calculators” “baseless allegations” is like okay now it’s confirmed they are clearly full of shit.
I worry that telling them the problem and how to fix it will make them better in the future. It's like not using enough antibiotics.
Yeah, I did think about that. IDK; I decided that I thought the value of illustrating a strong argument to everyone else that there are shills here and it's a problem, is more important than the danger that the shills will fix up one specific tell that's arguably giving away their operation.
I mean, I don't think that it is like a high intensity FSB intelligence operation or anything, such that they're even going to put a high priority on blending in perfectly. I think it's like 1-2 underpaid guys in cubicles somewhere in Virginia / somewhere else in the world / whereever, just shitposting away at high volume.
Why not both?