Question: If Trump reverses the direction of US foreign policy, and starts openly seeking for Ukraine to be conquered and have its resources and land taken by Russia and the US, would it become support worthy because of its place on that list?
How about Canada? If he starts trying to conquer Canada (not that I think he would, I think it is pure posturing) would it then start needing Lemmygrad's support?
Lmao
You are completely right. I spoke too soon.
Dude, what the fuck am I doing lending my attention to a platform which features a core developer this stupid?
Indeed and definitely, I liked your reference
Good stuff, "my friend says we're like the dinosaurs" would also have been slick
Edit: Yes and
It's definitely clear to me that there is some kind of organized pro-Russian and anti-Democrat shilling going on on Lemmy. How much, it's more or less impossible to know.
I was a little bit surprised that Lemmy is worth infiltrating, yes. I think it's possible that any social media with a presence in the thousands of people is worth the effort. It's not that strange. Any post on Facebook will have a limited reach, any post on Lemmy will have a limited reach, they're really not all that tremendously different. I've heard other random rumors of people speculating about particular details of how and why, but I think there is more or less no way to know. All I've really seen directly is occasional slip-ups of someone pretending to be American when they clearly are not, as well as the obvious pattern of super vocal accounts which push more or less nothing but one particular geopolitically-useful ideology.
From time to time I try to trap them in some sort of bot detection attempt, and it always fails. 🙂
And yes, I have no idea what the connection is between humanspiral and the slrpnk mods, or even if there is one. I just observed that one really weird event and it always sort of stuck in my mind. Also, some of the slrpnk mods were definitely very vigorous leading up to the election in posting "don't vote for Democrats" stuff and deleting anyone who tried to disagree with it.
I had a conversation with a "Democrats betrayed us on Gaza" account, during which time it started to seem pretty likely to me they they couldn't speak Arabic but were pretending that they could. That was pretty interesting. Instead of being able to speak on the Arabic details we were talking about, they started dissembling into a pattern of (1) hostility (2) accusing me of being the person in the wrong because I am bad (3) randomly changing the subject, making nonsensical statements, and insisting that they were right. Sort of like these examples:
Link to thebrainbin.org that Lemmy is too simple-minded to be able to expand
https://ponder.cat/post/2054411/2342084
If you start looking closely, it's only a small number of accounts that tend to "argue" in that very particular way, and they almost all have the same particular political views. I wonder why.
Haha fair enough, in that case you will find exactly what you're looking for.
I mean in fairness, voting for this post is currently sitting at negative 84, with most of the top comments yelling at OP for being stupid.
There's a certain amount of .ml stupidness in the comments, too, but it's in the minority.
Attention! Turn back. Going into these comments can bring you nothing of happiness. You can just look up the "tumblr reading comprehension" meme instead of needing to see the gory details of it in action.
The first problem with this is obvious. Because the two species of owls are so similar, and the Fish and Wildlife Service would be deputizing landowners to shoot them in the middle of the night, the likelihood of the owl-killers misidentifying their quarry and accidentally killing the spotted owls is high.
That is not the first problem with this.
The world is a wonderful place, and far too wide to need to conform to your pet theory.
I want to ask about how strongly Russia's economy is doing, and how they are rising and NATO is falling apart and the EU is going to all crumble and freeze in the dark with no fossil fuels while Russia stands strong, and how that all ties in with this whole theory, but I have lost interest.
I wish you luck with your geopolitical theories. Y'all are weird.