In recent months I have noticed an interesting trend, and there is no way it is coincidence. The pattern is very clear and predictable, and it absolutely stinks of a concerted effort to manufacture "popular opinion"--to make people THINK that a lot of people think a certain way. Exactly who is doing it, I don't know, but the pattern has become too obvious to deny.
Here is how it works: When I post something on YouTube, in among the initial wave of comments, for or against whatever I was expressing--and especially after it starts to die down--there will be a number of comments which are generally disagreeing with and/or insulting or condemning me. That much, by itself, is (of course) neither surprising nor suspicious. HOWEVER, a certain number of such comments fit a very particular pattern:
They contain little or no substance, and no actual argument against anything I said. (That by itself is not very unusual.)
They are worded in a way to pretend that the commenter was once a supporter of mine (but someone I've never heard of), but who now says they are "disappointed" in me or have "lost respect" for me. This is an essential psychological component of the scheme, because the goal is not to debate me, or to even make any point (even a stupid point), but to try to emotionally and/or psychologically imply to others that they should distrust and shun me. Again, this is all about MANUFACTURING a certain "public opinion."
When you look up the accounts they come from--and this is the really significant part--they are always either totally empty, or haven't been used in ages, and back when they were last used, months or years back, it was to post a few random nothing videos having nothing to do with philosophy or politics. And they are always accounts I have never seen before, and names I've never heard of before (so they're not even genuine hater-trolls who just have a grudge against me).
Such comments will often begin, and there will be several of them, from different accounts--all with the same characteristics described above--after the initial wave of comments dies down, so that the psy-ops comments don't get lost in the flood.
As most of you probably know, the feds have been caught paying armies of fake online personas to do exactly this. So at this point, when a comment fits all of those criteria perfectly, I block the account. And of course, more always appear.
But this is actually a very GOOD sign that we're making enough of an impact that some people feel the need to engage in such slimy, deceptive psy-ops, mind-control and propaganda tactics.
(P.S. I'm sure this happening under my most recent video has nothing at all to do with the fact that Adam Kokesh has a degree in psychology, did psy-ops when in the Marines, and is obsessed with NLP (neuro-linguistic programming).)
