today
That's a weird way of saying since the inception of message boards/forums. The only thing that has changed recently, especially in the past 2-3 years, is the quality/quantity of shills. They figured that although smarter individuals can argue and deploy tactics better, they're harder to hire, they cannot reach as many people at the same time and tend to get redpilled in the process themselves. So what we have is a massive influx of minimum wage social study bachelors dropping outdated modular copy paste replies based on which category our posts are in that just barely count as response to the point where apparently even plebbit fags are able to spot them now.
Essentially they spend millions on a useless wide range shill campaign and because they can barely fool some low IQ normalfags they think it works anywhere else too. For example a lot of anons simply filter shills, but because less and less anons respond to them they view that as victory and even market this phenomenon to investors as being effective.
The shills themselves get paid per post/response or hourly, but the company that deploys shills gets paid to shift the opinion of a board/forum/website. Responses only help them understanding their target and tailoring attacks, but getting no responses can be understood as having no opposition, which they can sell as "hey we changed the opinion of website x" to investors. Since they get money from investors so they need to show they're effective, or at least pretend they're effective, or maybe they even actually believe they're effective.
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Trust the Chinese communist bots, right fellow Pol user?
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A thousandbux is a thousandbux. This is how all republics die, with the voters voting themselves money out of the treasury. Illegals get free shit; jews get free shit; the Pentagon gets free shit - I WANT FREE SHIT.
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more of this false dichotomy shit
>>12899045
Man, it's one fucking boogeyman after another.
Been that way for years.
Once upon a time everyone who disagreed with you was jidf, then they were /intl/, then ctr, then shareblue, now they're chinamen or some shit.
At some point, just admit that you are and idiot with no arguments and no history on imageboards (and therefore, no perspective) and that, even if your intentions are good, you leave this place worse than you found it.