Alright, so there are often accusations on the internet of people being shills. Someone says “roundup probably isn’t as unhealthy as some of the pesticides it replaced” and you get accused of being in the pockets of Monsanto. If you debunk alt meds, you’re a big pharma shill. Etc. There’s probably about 10,000x more accusations of shilling than actual shilling, if it exists at all.
Although we do know that state actors do have people go online and shill, troll, and otherwise sow discord as a modern age cyber/psyops warfare against rival countries.
I don’t have any reason to believe HurricaneDitka is a shill, and that’s kind of sad, actually. He works so very hard for evil and he’s doing it all on his own free time. He’s not even selling out - he’s being evil and dishonest and acting in bad faith and serving the interests of the Republican party (and by extension usually the Russians) just to rile the libs. He doesn’t get anything out of it. He’s a vile piece of shit trying to sow discord and damage his own country for the fun of it. What a world.
The thing is - if he was a paid shill by the Republican party or the Russian government, would any of his behavior be any different? How would you be able to tell?
Anyway, he’s up to his usual, trying to Baghdad Bob in the impeachment thread. Oh, Clinton was impeached because the republicans investigated him. Trump will be impeached because the democrats investigated him. So both sides are the same, and if you don’t think so, obviously you’re just too partisan to see the truth! Doesn’t matter if Trump commits a hundred crimes worse than anything Clinton did, or the Republicans were running sham investigations for years desperate to find anything, and the Democrats are actually under-investigating and under-reacting to Trump’s multitude of crimes. Both sides are exactly the same. Obama wore a tan suit, Trump can nuke Canada - each side doesn’t like the other’s politicians and therefore everyone is exactly equal.
The shitstain always acts in bad faith:
No good faith actor could’ve said what he just said. The US Congress approved the aid package to Ukraine. Trump has withheld that aid package for 7 months now. Finally, Trump, having to give in and give the package, tries to extort Ukraine into giving him something personally in return for fulfilling the duty he’s legally obligated to do placed upon him by Congress, and from this, Ditka concludes: HAHA LIBS, YOU THINK TRUMP WORKS FOR RUSSIA AND YET HE SINGLE HANDEDLY GENEROUSLY DECIDED TO GIVE UKRAINE A GIANT MILITARY AID PACKAGE. YOU CAN’T EVEN GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT! OWNED, CUCKS!
The thing is - there’s value in representing contrary viewpoints on this board. It’s good that it’s not a complete echo chamber. But if people aren’t acting in good faith, it’s a waste of time, it’s just trolling. That’s something I can’t accept or forgive.