Concern Trolls as Spectacle Participants

Disinfolklore has one means of provoking in you that feeling that doing nothing to halt Russia’s genocide is the merciful action to take - for Ukraine. Concern trolls are immanent in much that we hear about halting arms shipments to Ukraine, even as the number of chips, superconductors, controllers and elements in Russian missiles and drones from the West increases.

Disinfolklists, then, have another kind of Disinfolklore story to convince someone else to do nothing - for example those whose minds are susceptible to Data Resistant Archetypes of a Potemkin State need top-ups.

Source: Spectacles!

Spectacle operates through segmented messaging: concern trolls for the empathetic (halting arms = mercy), Potemkin State archetypes for the data-susceptible (Russia is invincible = futility). Different audiences receive different spectacle tricks, all driving the same outcome — inaction. The concern troll disguises complicity as compassion, while Western components continue to appear in Russian missiles.

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