The technique is "flooding the zone with shit" per Steve Bannon. When successful, it obscures that there's objective truth at all.
HN is particularly susceptible because we're all in one silo and when we can't agree on a shared reality, we have to assume under the HN guidelines that the alternate reality is truly what our interlocutor believes.
The endgame looks like the Russian people accepting Putin's nonsense because they can't believe anything.
Trump didn't think the 6th insurgents would succeed. He had clearly been advised that the reaction to it might allow him to institute marshal law, and there was a draft executive order floating around that would have seen him use that situation to try to delay things further.
I think a lot of people fail to understand how many different ways there are to make order out of chaos, and how in extreme chaos a lot of people will accept any kind of order.
HN is particularly susceptible because we're all in one silo and when we can't agree on a shared reality, we have to assume under the HN guidelines that the alternate reality is truly what our interlocutor believes.
The endgame looks like the Russian people accepting Putin's nonsense because they can't believe anything.