• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Russia is known to do this at this point. A sudden spike in talking about how voting for [current DNC candidate] is immoral usually fortells a report a few months later that it was started by Russians being paid to spread that message. The fact that lemmygrad, .ml, and Hexbear users suddenly started pushing it 2 weeks ago right after Biden started making serious progress against Israel suggests this is the case. I don’t know that Russian bots are using Hexbear as a staging ground, but even if they aren’t it’s still at the very least directly downstream from Russian propaganda.

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      7 months ago

      Kind stranger, I will keep an eye out for this. Thank you for bringing this to my attention and for talking with me like a normal person. 🙂

      I hope you have a great day. 👈😎

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        7 months ago

        It’s russia and their shills but it’s also tankies and other shills, fash, stooges, etc.

        They want the fash cheeto.

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          7 months ago

          You think “tankies” want trump? I’m going to need a source for that one.

          The other groups I’m totally with you on. But I don’t understand why more moderate lefties are so quick to pretend that far lefties are fascist. Unless you meant something else by that term, I’ve only ever heard it used to describe socialists.

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            7 months ago

            Liberals are just a hop and a skip away from being full blown nazis so they hate on the actual Left to try and convince people they are radical crazy people and the liberal nazis are the norm.

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                They’re not actually the same, btw. The person’s absolutely cracked.

                Edit: to be more specific, they just equated liberals with Nazis and then accused me of being a liberal (and thus adjacent to being a Nazi) because I disagreed. These are the kinds of people you should generally distrust.

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              7 months ago

              Liberals and fascists are in fact very, very different. Convoluting the two only serves to distance potential allies and elevate the standing of fascists.

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                  7 months ago

                  I didn’t have work today. Thanks to the union, I was able to take a couple of hours for a walk, enjoy the sounds of birds, smelled the flowers, buy a stupidly unhealthy meal, and eat it while watching a playlist consisting of anarchist news media and Tolkien literature analysis.

                  Going outside, being in nature, and connecting with the people around you as well as speaking with people you disagree with are all healthy activities that you should try when you’re able. Also, if you don’t have a union, fix that as soon as possible.

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            7 months ago

            Iirc, Infrahaz is or was in favor of Trump, as was Caleb Maupin (who also notably worked for Russia Today) when he was still around. Also, Tankies aren’t socialists.

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                Generally, tankies are individuals who advocate for authoritarian regimes while claiming both they and the regimes are leftists. These regimes usually include russia, china, or North korea. Communism is a classless, moneyless, stateless society. Every single country that tankies usually advocate for fails in every single one of these criteria, and so I do not believe it is useful to refer to them as communists.

                These definitions may be flawed, but they are what I am currently using, which was the question.

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        The genocide in Palestine will be worsened if Trump wins the election.

        Please don’t misrepresent me like that again, and touch some grass.

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          How can it get worse? There is nothing left in Gaza… not a single building is habital anymore.