Cy on Nostr: That's the purest essence of trolling. Whether you're doing it for fun or to promote ...
That's the purest essence of trolling. Whether you're doing it for fun or to promote an agenda, provoking people is an effective way to get yourself out there and visible, and draw engagement.
There's a second purpose to those arguments, which is the same reason cults send their members recruiting door to door. Sure there's a small chance they'll be able to happen upon someone emotionally vulnerable who converts. But they'll also find rejection after rejection, people rightfully angry at them for spreading poisonous doctrine of high control.
Recruiters aren't just there to recruit others. They're there to recruit themselves. Those arguments confirm their fears that the whole world is against them, making them more desperately loyal to the believers, because they have no one else they can trust.
Pretty much same reason Nazis try to get people to punch them. Then they can show their fellow Nazis the scary shouting people with strange hair colors and say, "Look! We really are being oppressed! Look at what monsters they really are!"
There's a second purpose to those arguments, which is the same reason cults send their members recruiting door to door. Sure there's a small chance they'll be able to happen upon someone emotionally vulnerable who converts. But they'll also find rejection after rejection, people rightfully angry at them for spreading poisonous doctrine of high control.
Recruiters aren't just there to recruit others. They're there to recruit themselves. Those arguments confirm their fears that the whole world is against them, making them more desperately loyal to the believers, because they have no one else they can trust.
Pretty much same reason Nazis try to get people to punch them. Then they can show their fellow Nazis the scary shouting people with strange hair colors and say, "Look! We really are being oppressed! Look at what monsters they really are!"