Oh wow somebody trolling the libs in his replies, truly inconvertible proof of russian bots on lemmy. I’ve known multiple people who share this exact sense of humor and would post like this.
How can you read “Thank you for engaging with my fascist propaganda that’s designed to cause a catastrophe in Gaza!” and not clock that he’s trolling.
*ok I see I missed your point. It’s not that they’re a russian bot, it’s that criticism from the left = maga = russian bots because any opposition to Harris is functionally the same. Criticism of complicity in a genocide is the same as saying don’t vote for her she’s secretly trans or whatever the actual maga crowd is saying about her. Truly its impossible for two things to be bad at once.
“Everything I disagree with is either a russian bot or functionally a russian bot” as an alternative to critically thinking about new information/other opinions is actually insidious and far more dangerous to democracy than misinformation. This is just the other side of the coin to trumpers calling everything they don’t like fake news.
Okay so first that it’s clearly trolling and ha ha how dare I get taken in by it, and then whoa whoa whoa it’s clearly just well intentioned criticism and how dare I not take it seriously and engage with it on the merits and ignore some of the red flags that it is trolling.
Dude you gotta teach me more of this, I feel like maybe I’m just too uncritically minded to understand it. Can you break it down for me more, so I can understand your well intentioned point? I feel like that would really help me.
The example you linked is satirical semi-surrealist shitposting, there’s nothing really there to engage with. It’s just making fun of democrats for willfully ignoring her complicity and rhetoric regarding the genocide. Or maybe you’re confused, I meant their comment replies were trolling the people brigading that community not the post as a whole.
But more generally you’re basically advocating reducing politics into team “vote blue no matter who” and team “russians/bots/traitors/other enemies”. Oh this person is mocking Kamala, therefore they basically aren’t human.
Or alternatively “this either confirms my biases or is bad-faith and should be ignored”
But more generally you’re basically advocating reducing politics into team “vote blue no matter who” and team “russians/bots/traitors/other enemies”.
But what if I am just advocating trolling the tanks and mags? You said you know a bunch of people who that’s their sense of humor, so that should be easy to understand. Surely that would be pretty cool, right?
Ok, you’ve apparently latched onto my explanation of why I thought that guy wasn’t a bot. Could you maybe respond to the comment you’re replying to instead?
Then again why am I surprised you’re not interested defending your idea. Your whole thesis is “if they don’t already agree they should be ignored.” I’m obviously one of the russian bots to ignore.
‘Everything I don’t like is fake news’ is dumb when they do it and enlightened when I do it.
Ok you’re now trolling about as hard as that guy trolled the people brigading his community. So what does that make you?
At least I’m not such a dumbass that I think actively avoiding challenging your beliefs is a good thing. “Engaging with ideas sounds hard :( never think again bestie its bad for you”
Oh wow somebody trolling the libs in his replies, truly inconvertible proof of russian bots on lemmy. I’ve known multiple people who share this exact sense of humor and would post like this.
How can you read “Thank you for engaging with my fascist propaganda that’s designed to cause a catastrophe in Gaza!” and not clock that he’s trolling.
*ok I see I missed your point. It’s not that they’re a russian bot, it’s that criticism from the left = maga = russian bots because any opposition to Harris is functionally the same. Criticism of complicity in a genocide is the same as saying don’t vote for her she’s secretly trans or whatever the actual maga crowd is saying about her. Truly its impossible for two things to be bad at once.
I am aware that it’s masquerading as humor. And yes yes very edgy; congratulations.
“Everything I disagree with is either a russian bot or functionally a russian bot” as an alternative to critically thinking about new information/other opinions is actually insidious and far more dangerous to democracy than misinformation. This is just the other side of the coin to trumpers calling everything they don’t like fake news.
Okay so first that it’s clearly trolling and ha ha how dare I get taken in by it, and then whoa whoa whoa it’s clearly just well intentioned criticism and how dare I not take it seriously and engage with it on the merits and ignore some of the red flags that it is trolling.
Dude you gotta teach me more of this, I feel like maybe I’m just too uncritically minded to understand it. Can you break it down for me more, so I can understand your well intentioned point? I feel like that would really help me.
Very well done! I’m taking notes over here. lol
The example you linked is satirical semi-surrealist shitposting, there’s nothing really there to engage with. It’s just making fun of democrats for willfully ignoring her complicity and rhetoric regarding the genocide. Or maybe you’re confused, I meant their comment replies were trolling the people brigading that community not the post as a whole.
But more generally you’re basically advocating reducing politics into team “vote blue no matter who” and team “russians/bots/traitors/other enemies”. Oh this person is mocking Kamala, therefore they basically aren’t human.
Or alternatively “this either confirms my biases or is bad-faith and should be ignored”
But what if I am just advocating trolling the tanks and mags? You said you know a bunch of people who that’s their sense of humor, so that should be easy to understand. Surely that would be pretty cool, right?
Ok, you’ve apparently latched onto my explanation of why I thought that guy wasn’t a bot. Could you maybe respond to the comment you’re replying to instead?
Then again why am I surprised you’re not interested defending your idea. Your whole thesis is “if they don’t already agree they should be ignored.” I’m obviously one of the russian bots to ignore.
‘Everything I don’t like is fake news’ is dumb when they do it and enlightened when I do it.
Am I doing it right?
Ok you’re now trolling about as hard as that guy trolled the people brigading his community. So what does that make you?
At least I’m not such a dumbass that I think actively avoiding challenging your beliefs is a good thing. “Engaging with ideas sounds hard :( never think again bestie its bad for you”