Thank you for link to DesignatedTopic. Match to story will help communicate ProblemState!
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Cows get milked, rubes get bilked,
And fat cats dine on fools and cream.

The bot rant sounds really funny when read aloud by a computer voice. The worse the voice, the funnier it sounds. Oddly, a good voice like VWPaul makes it sound bluddy creepy.
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Cows get milked, rubes get bilked,
And fat cats dine on fools and cream.

link :D

...MacDill and folks can't explicitly connect the dots? Authors might want to mention how it's not just North Americans who have Internet-mediated opinions that matter...

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. ~ Pierre Trudeau

on the public is okay? or just against Americans? ;)

...population by running PSYOPS, hell yeah I'll do it. Running PSYOPS on the American public, well that gets into a lot dicier ground, but the Norte Americanos might want to absorb the notion that this may very well not be about them, given the terms of contract.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. ~ Pierre Trudeau

it was an end run around growing public opinion. They skipped the patriotic teary appeals and went straight for the money.

...specified in the RFP it's not.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. ~ Pierre Trudeau