One thing different this time around is significantly reduced demand... and more lockdowns further reduces demand. This will be how Biden hides the damage he is doing - then when someone takes over that does away with the lockdowns the surge in demand will result in skyrocketing oil prices.
That's where your wrong, Google relies on the dislike/like ratio as well as the view/like ratio for placement within YouTube's search results so if a video is being falsely upvoted or downvoted it causes issues. This is why Youtubers frequently ask people to like their videos - it feeds the algorithm... more likes = more views = more money.
Yeah, mRNA vaccines have a LOT of promise in their ability to be extremely targeted... but they have ZERO history of long-term safety in humans.
The media likes to spin that and say they "pose no known long-term risk to humans."
I am like "Well, no shit, because we know NOTHING about these damned things..."
I am not an anti-vaxxer by any means, I've had tons of vaccines as a result of my global travels to socialist shit-holes, and I'll be getting a tetanus shot in a year or so... but I'm not about to rush out and try some bleeding edge untested vaccine for a virus which will be under control naturally... I'll let everyone else do that - once half the population has some form of immunity this thing will die out quickly.
I am intimately familiar with the mechanism, it's not super advanced. Every time you like/dislike a video it is added to your list of liked/disliked videos and your ID is added to the video's liked/disliked tables.
If a video is flagged as having a suspicious amount of votes then a simple script which examines the viewer's history against their vote is run to weed out possible fake accounts... so when 10,000 people come in from a website and see a video they don't watch and down-vote it those votes will potentially get removed.
It's a really simple, straight-forward, process actually designed to fight what Youtube viewed as theft from them by creating fake views and reactions.
This is literally what I spent many years doing for a living.
They absolutely are, the process once began at 300 votes and the videos would have all votes suspended until a review, but the review now occurs as a cron job. I'm not certain which videos are targeted or the scheduling, but what I said was correct as of a year or so ago.
True story (according to my father):
My father was arrested for public intoxication in the 80s and refused to say anything at all to the police. He didn't have any ID or anything on him and no one knew who he was... because he didn't say a word the judge decided that he was in control of his faculties and let him go despite him being stone cold drunk. It also never showed on his record because it was just a 'John Doe' case.
Seriously, just staying silent is quite a workable strategy... and the fact that some courts have ruled that once you start talking you have waived your 5th Amendment rights makes it all the more vital to remain silent (or say 'I demand a lawyer'). Don't even give them your name if you can avoid it.
I hate to side with Youtube, I really do, but they actually run an algorithm over videos that tests up/down votes from people and checks to see if those accounts actually watched the video - those who didn't will have their votes removed.
The process is a bit time consuming so it only gets run every so often.
The impacts would be almost immediately noticeable... within six months the military would be below critical levels and would likely call up the IRR (Individual Ready Reserve) which consists of recently separated military members (military obligation is longer than the initial service agreement... sign a five year contract and you're actually on the hook for 8 years if the military decides they need you.. and they can call you up at any time in that window and force you to serve).
The problem with socialism is that it looks REALLY good on paper... and is disastrous in reality.
People use terms like "owned by the people" when they don't realize the people are actually organized into governments, so it really means "owned by the government."
I'm a rare Trump supporter that supports various forms of wealth redistribution, which some say is socialism, but it's simply not, socialism is control of the means of production, taxation on the wealthy makes a great deal of sense because the wealthy get outsized representation in government, the economy, and in society.
I still haven't figured out why Jan 17 would mean anything to Trump supports as a day to do anything at all. It makes perfect sense for a day to plan a false flag event, however, because it's a three day weekend for some people and Trump supporters have work all week and will have a difficult time fact checking all the claims.
Not every election and race is rigged.. and the primaries are even less rigged,,, simply thanks to their reduced visibility. 2022 is the year of Trump-supporting candidates.
Even the elections that are rigged are usually only 1~2% vote flipping... now, this time, we need an army of Trump supporters and genuine patriots joining the election process... not as monitors, but as participants... pretend to be a Democrat and appalled at Trump if you must.. it's easy to do, watch CNN for 20 minutes and you'll have the totality of their position and mental capacity down pat.
House fire, I'm afraid.