I can’t stand Ben Shapiro or Project Veritas Ops, similar to how I can’t stand Susan Portnoy’s manipulations. We will get to how words work in a moment so Sue might learn something. First let’s highlight why this repeated behavior is exhibited.
The above post she is responding to serves an interesting purpose. By trolling trolls Sue to trawling for others who similarly troll trolls to troll brigade with. Presumably, this is how Susan and other larger malign influence accounts pull in and radicalize normal people and weaponize them against other targets.
I experienced these types of movements, one clearly inauthentic and the other questionable, early on in my own Twitter experiences. The inauthentic one was a disruptive interference operation targeting the left to factionalize and fight each other over the 2020 Presidential primary season. The other was a time sink of ridiculous political arguments that were just like what Susan does.
The whole point is to effectively radicalize people bombarding them with suggestive messages and behaviors, reinforcing or ignoring based on what the manipulator wants. Here is an example of a possible influence operation, conducted on school property purportedly by other students according to the Principal.
This is one of those things that a teacher is trained to not let students do impacting others, with stated rules and parameters given and teacher approval before any such thing is transmitted or shown to the entire class.
This is clearly indoctrination and possibly running afoul of state education laws and regulations; however, if what the Principal stated was true and it came from a student, the teacher is still at fault and should apologize to students and parents.
If the same content was submitted to me by a student, I would disallow it to be shown in class. They would then have two options. I could grade the content according to rubric without any penalty for not presenting it in class, or they could redo the assignment in a manner that would be compliant with state law allowing it to be shown to the full class.
Back to words having more than one meaning.
Susan Portnoy is extremely rigid on the meanings of some words, cognitively stuck it seems. Ben, who is her peer in PsyOp-ing, is correct in his use of the word. Sue is too, but is limiting her understanding and narrowing use that risks her not being understood or able to understand what others mean.
Susan therefore attempted to groom (Using Ben’s meaning) her audience back in 2017, to assemble, be beaten and perhaps killed, during the Resist Fascist Op, one of many failed attempts of the MAGA3x program to incite a Civil War.