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Staying over there, talking the jobs of hard working right wing influences.
I was thinking about this last year as America is being clowned by out-of-state actors and why it happens:
If you paid somebody in the US to shit-talk the Yellow team in say (and I'm picking a country at random) Romania, and promote the Blue team instead... They'd probably do it. Even if it's something insignificant like $50 a week. The US person has zero interest in the politics of Romania.
Fire off a few tweets like "Yellow team again failing people." Or "Blue team, true patriots", upvote some diversive shit, repost some memes, and easy money.
This is happening every day for cheap.
Mix in some AI bots, and for a few thousand dollars, you recreated Twitter's racist/hate shit that controls the narrative.
Emily Darlington, a Labour MP who sits on the Science, Innovation and Technology select committee, said: “There’s clearly a market for hate content in the UK. When social media, intended to connect us, instead feeds us an endless stream of divisive and anger-fuelling content it distorts not only how we feel about our neighbours, but how we think the nation feels about our neighbours.
“The fact that this tactic is successful enough with a UK audience that individuals in other countries can profit off it shows how vulnerable we are. There’s nothing stopping foreign states from doing the same.”
Maybe the best way to counter xenophobia isn't to rely on anti-immigrant views not being expressed
a fragile convention that can easily fall apart
but to actively explain why immigration is advantageous.
If people do not understand the purpose of a policy, they will try to make sense of it, either on their own or via adopting the takes that seem most-plausible to them.
If one's way of dealing with politicially-unpopular policy is to hope that it doesn't come up and thus falls out of public discussion rather than to sell the public on it...shrugs
Democracy is intended to have the public act as final, ultimate overseers of policy. At the end of the day, one has to sell the public on major policy decisions or be at risk of the public acting in opposition to that policy.
A lot of British Pakistanis like to holiday in Pakistan, and I mean, a lot, and like any sufficiently large group of humans, there's bound to be a handful who bear a grudge.
Which is to say that If I hear that something terrible has happened to him, I won't be in the least bit surprised.
(Which is NOT to endorse someone doing anything like that. This is merely an observation.)
This AI slop churning nets $18k/yr and puts him into the top ten percent of earners in Pakistan, he can probably afford private security there since that’s crazy cheap what with the massive poverty. Even if he were to have something terrible happen to him the money at stake would likely see someone else step right up to replace him in that sort of scheme.
There's more than one person doing this. It's organized.
India blocked Pakistan creators from appearing in India. It is helpful since pakistanis were also like, pretending to be local police and causing phone scams.
And also a lot of hatred vitriol towards each other. In comments.
Blocking a country like Pakistan would be a great way to prevent hate and scam on social.