RE: EUA rampers22 Jul 2025 19:50
15:26, hi crypto, i don’t think that the rampers believe that their false stories about me being connected with jub capital would deter me from posting.
rather, i think it’s about two other related things. one is simply to discredit, i.e. to try to discourage others from reading/thinking about the contents of sceptical posts.
but secondly and probably more importantly it’s to help maintain a kind of ‘in-group’ morale and identity, where pis can get some warm fuzzies by feeling that they are part of an in-crowd, that defines itself partly by being against various actual or imaginary external enemies.
… that process is meant to reinforce the internal groupthink, discourage dissent within the group, and increase suggestibility to ingroup leadership. … it’s a very old kind of group management process, known for hundreds of years, used by folks ranging trivially from timeshare salesmen tragically through to the third reich.
(tilly tried to use similar methods with all his nauseating and misogynistic nautical tropes and insults, inciting pis to identify as a ‘crew’ of shipmates.)
the rampers want ordinary but naive pis like matthewevans to see the rampers as their trustworthy friends, helping to protect them against an imaginary conspiracy of evil derampers.