There are both genuine burnt-out doomers out there, and there are astroturfers and bots that feed on their cynicism and boost it, making even more doomers. It’s a self-sustaining cycle that spreads rapidly and serves all the purposes of those who don’t want us to vote.

There absolutely is going to be election interference, there always is, and it always takes the form of social messaging in the US. Where people make a mistake is assuming it’s going to be one or two large-scale attacks on democracy, when in reality it’s thousands and thousands of micro-attacks, everything from capitalizing on male sexual insecurity all the way through to instilling doubt in science, through to feeding cynicism and doubt about our process with rumors and predictions. There are whole farms of these people and bots out there just spreading through every conversation-space on the internet.

You can’t change the minds of millions of people, but you can make millions of people confused or unsure what’s actually happening. It works just as well to make people vote wrong or not vote at all, but people don’t view the little things as the actual threat, people are still looking for large conspiracies, which are less realistic and harder to maintain by an administration made largely of utter morons.

I love how we’re both getting ineffectual, impotent downvotes just for talking about it. There are a lot of people who have all their emotions attached to the idea that nothing can be done, because it prevents them from feeling accountability.