About 20 years ago or so I trolled the Democratic Underground website. I pretended to be a fellow leftist like everyone else on the site.
What I did was that I took passages out of Hitler’s book, mein kampf. And would post them on the site without telling anyone it was Hitler’s own words.
In order to hide the fact that these passages were hitlers own words, if the passage had the word “germany” or “third reich” in it, I replaced it with “america”. And if the passages had the words “jews” or “jewery”, I replaced those words with “conservative” or “conservatism”. The rest of the passage I would leave alone, not changing any other words and leaving the basic message intact.
Then I would look for the proper posts to place these passages in. I wanted the passages to be on topic. For example, if the discussion was about economics, then I’d post Hitler own words about economics. If the discussion was about war or foreign policy, I’d post Hitler own words about war or foreign policy. If the discussion was about race and racism, I’d post Hitler own words on race and racism. Etc, etc.
The reactions I got were enormously supportive. My fellow DU members agreed with me, cheered me on, applauded and praised me for what they thought were my own words. One of their more prolific and well known members even commented to me that I write just like Bill Clinton!
They didn’t see how their ideology perfectly aligned with the Nazis, with Hitler’s own words, all the while they were accusing their opposition of being Nazis and fascists.
I managed to post about several dozen times over a period of a couple of weeks before someone finally caught on to what I was doing. I don’t know who or how. But my account was banned and they deleted most of my “mein kampf” comments.
Finally the subject was The Chandra Levy case and went a little too far in defending the accused Congressman saying he should not be expelled, nothing was proven and other stuff. That was what got me kicked off.
That was a gutsy and brilliant excercise!