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Same here, never heard of them before Lemmy. I was shocked by their illogical statements and behavior. I couldn't believe anyone could hold such inconsistent beliefs and not just melt their brain, by so many mental gymnastics and plot holes. I still can't. It just makes way more sense that they are all done kind of weird Russian ai experiment.
They kind of betray each other a lot of the times where some say that tiananmen square massacre didn't happen and others saying that they are color revolutionaries and absolutely deserved it.
I personally know a born-and-raised Chinese person who's loyal to the regime. Not even he denies the Uyghur genocide. He just admits that he thinks china should be an ethnostate. I think about that every time I see some keyboard warrier say the genocide is western propaganda.
I've seen them saying it was fine because the students wanted to be killed. Insane
i wish all the stupidity i see in the world was the result of russian misinformation, but that's almost too optimistic a position to hold in my eyes...guess we'll see if/when russia collapses from fighting ukraine, if it all just dries up.
It's not just Russian troll farms now. Russia, China and Iran have combined their troll farms, and it's just steamrolling through social media.
And India and Iran, all BRICS countries. You can follow via the crypto tickers sometimes, as crypto is intrinsically tied to these bot (human slave) farms - it's their funding.
lol lusty argonian
I was willing to listen to them until I was the target of completely unfounded censorship. I figured, meh maybe they have a few nuggets of wisdom. They called me a racist and a xenophobe for a meme I made that neither contained racism or race.
That's all they do, is engage in name-calling. Nothing actually productive. They're just a bunch of name-callers.
can you link that comment? did ya get banned?
Think it was deleted, but it was the guy checking out another girl meme and the one with him I wrote "my 4080 RTX gaming rig" and the one he's looking at was "my Steam Deck" I posted with a filler title of "rice" because it's a required field and that's what swipe spit out.
It was considered racist to use the word rice.
whaaat? can you find that post? that's wild
I can't see it in my history anymore, not sure if it's because I blocked the instance or they deleted/removed the post.
You can read the follow up discussion on this thread I posted awhile back.
https://lemmy.world/comment/10193954
should post your experience over to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com