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Back to episode — Episode 2436 CWSA 04/06/24

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f that already? All right. Well, I thought that would catch on with everybody. Let's talk about all the news. Well, if you are subscribing to Dilbert Reborn, you would be seeing that the boss is hiring a batshit crazy woman to work in the office, and the staff is wondering why he didn't notice. And the boss says he's bad at reading faces anyway. You'd see that if you were a subscriber on either X…

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the sadness trolls. You probably don't have them. I think they only hit the larger accounts that they're trying to discourage from spending time on X. But the sadness trolls have two tells, which makes them hilarious because when they show up as just artificial people, then you don't have to worry about what they say.

So one of the tells is they have a small account and they're definitely not my followers or fans, but they follow me. That's the first tell. They don't agree with anything I say and they have tiny little accounts, but they follow me. Now, the reason they do that is that they'll get an alert as soon as I post and they go in first. So part of the troll game, the professionals, I assume these are organized, I don't think these are individuals, they make sure that they follow you so that they can get there first.

If there's one thing I can tell you, there's no Democrats who are following me organically. I don't think there's any, like just none. Because they don't want to be exposed to unpleasant thoughts. But the trolls don't mind because they want to respond as soon as possible. So the first thing I do when I see one of these trollish accounts, I always look to see if they follow me. Always. Well, not always, 90% of the time.

The other thing is they have a name that has several numbers at the end, like they couldn't be bothered to try to find a real good name. They took one like JacksonX53213265. Now who would open a real account and accept the default weird number name? Only a troll. And the reason the troll would do it is because they're in a hurry and they have multiple accounts and it doesn't really matter to them because they're not trying to send a true impression of who they are. They're trolls. They're artificial.

The other thing is that they often have little American flags so that they look like they might not be Democrat trolls. The ones that are actually just real people who are also trolling you, they usually have the little blue wave in there or a Ukrainian flag. Those might actually be real people. But the ones who pretend that maybe they're just patriots, those are the trolls. Anyway, that's how you tell them. So they're very acti

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ve now because it's the political season. And it's a real thing, by the way. I don't know if you all know that's a real thing, that the trolls are literally paid. Do you all know that's real? Because it might sound like it's some weird conspiracy theory I'm giving you, but that's all demonstrated. That's what we know. Who did it the last time? We know who was in charge. You know, it's a well-known…

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