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Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers (labornotes.org)

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Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that the Trump administration is revoking their work authorizations.

The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union and the local labor movement. They’re part of the Communications Workers’ industrial division, IUE-CWA Local 83761.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh. Yeah, it's definitely that, or partly that. These two accounts in particular are so bizarre with their conversation patterns that I'm pretty convinced that it's something like that.

I actually did think they were potentially literal bots, just because of how much trouble they had in comprehending context and meaning when you look beyond the surface level. One of them was able to count "S"s, though, so maybe they are not.

I sort of motivate people to disagree irrationally with me sometimes I think, because I am so abrasive and condescending when I think someone is wrong that I think they're just inclined to start debating with me and go against everything I have to say just as a result of that. But yes, I am fairly convinced that these people are doing it professionally in some sense.

I think one of the most important tells is the laziness of it. People who are on the internet debating, whether they are rational or not, usually invest some effort into making their points and trying to prove the other person wrong. The weird accounts, in my observations, don't really seem to care all that much if anyone believes them. They just want to kind of keep the conversation going and be disagreeable and throw in various talking points that they want to throw in. This thing where they can't even really comprehend or address discrepancies in what they're saying or the context of the conversation, and just kind of repeat various things they have programmed in, could just be that, that they just want to type their message and move on to whatever the next thing is.