It's not astroturfing. Its a major contributor, and has been weaponized to the point that large portions of the population are trained to immediately dismiss any mention of it.
The reason I use the term astroturfing is the complaint posts / comments all look & sound very similar with minor variations, like a “shaped charge” that detonates peoples’ emotional centers and taps into primal emotions like hatred and fear of the Other.
Very occasionally I see ‘real sounding’ and human sounding comments from every day people (instead of a professionally sharpened message). Those are now growing very slowly over time, which could just be a success of the propaganda.
>primal emotions like hatred and fear of the Other.
It's not hatred and fear "of the Other". Leftist and their leftist policies invite as many immigrants as they possibly can to an area with limited housing. Then it's shockedpikachu.jpg when the reality of supply and demand occurs and they clutch their pearls and ask "what could we have done to stop this?!" When in reality land, conservatives are telling them "we told you so". So instead of taking ownership of their mistakes thus proving conservatives were right, they gaslight everyone into thinking anything even remotely pointing towards the influx of immigrants is an issue is racist, effectively shielding themselves from blame.
This tactic of blaming any opposition as "racist" has been insanely effective in the West for the past four or so decades. Reality is catching up, and people left and right are seeing through the BS.
No one hates the immigrants, who wouldn't leave a third world country for Canada? The blame is firmly on the leftist politicians in Canada that are speed running the housing crisis.
Very occasionally I see ‘real sounding’ and human sounding comments from every day people (instead of a professionally sharpened message). Those are now growing very slowly over time, which could just be a success of the propaganda.