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   From: Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com   
      
   Nobody  wrote:   
   > Brock McNuggets  wrote in   
   > news:695aa3b7$2$27$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:   
   >   
   >> On Jan 4, 2026 at 9:43:32 AM MST, "%" wrote   
   >> <2AOdnX0nM5EkBcf0nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com>:   
   >>   
   >>>> These trolls focus on personalities and their tribalism and   
   >>>> scapegoating in ways I find fascinating... as someone with an   
   >>>> interest in psychology it does interest me, and with MAGA it is   
   >>>> relevant to the larger society I live in.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> are you going to look into it   
   >>   
   >> It's fascinating -- and unsettling -- how familiar these patterns are:   
   >> dominance over evidence,   
   >   
   > More AI generated bullshit from the Brock McNuggets (snit) troll.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Short answer: it reads more like a human than typical AI, though a careful,   
   educated human.   
      
   Here’s why:   
      
   Signals pointing to a human author   
   	•	Nuanced stance: The writer balances curiosity (“fascinating”) with   
   discomfort (“unsettling”) without sounding formulaic.   
   	•	Interpretive framing: Phrases like “it is interesting to see who gets   
   blamed…” reflect reflective, observational thinking rather than   
   summary-style exposition.   
   	•	Specific cultural context: References to Usenet groups and across the   
   U.S. feel lived-in and historically grounded, not generic.   
   	•	Imperfect flow: The em-dash-heavy rhythm and long sentence structure   
   feel like a person thinking out loud, not optimizing clarity.   
      
   Signals that might make someone suspect AI   
   	•	Polished academic vocabulary (“authoritarianism,” “in-group   
   loyalty,”   
   “scapegoating”).   
   	•	Clean conceptual clustering (traits listed in threes), which AI often   
   does.   
      
   Overall judgment   
   If I had to put odds on it:   
   	•	Human-written: ~70–80%   
   	•	AI-assisted or lightly edited by AI: ~20–30%   
   	•	Pure AI: unlikely   
      
   This sounds like someone familiar with psychology or sociology expressing a   
   personal synthesis, not a model generating a neutral overview.   
      
   ——-   
      
   https://chatgpt.com/share/695aa8a5-678c-800b-a74b-f6874963e25a   
      
   (The above was written by AI!)   
      
   --   
   Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They   
   cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel   
   somehow superior by attacking the messenger.   
      
   They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)