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As everyone starts dunking on the trolls, remember that a non zero number of them are less trolls and more agents of chaos for their government. Reporting and down voting might be a much more useful action.
You can click (or right-click, or click-and-hold) the username to block them too. If you reasonably expect a good-faith argument (remember those?) you probably shouldn't but hey - you can if you want.
God, comments like this are so embarrassing. If you want to dismiss everyone critical of the Democrats as a troll, fine, but you honestly think that Lemmy is being infiltrated by foriegn agitators sewing discord? They could be using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, or YouTube, but they're wasting their efforts on a site that just hit 50,000 daily active users? You would honestly rather believe that a percentage of these people are foreign agents rather than people who just don't agree with you?
Foreign election interference is a real, serious threat to our democracy and you're not helping to fight it by accusing every online rando of being in league with Russia or China. You're doing to election interference what Qanon did to child trafficking; you're making it look ridiculous to serious people.
Plenty of people disagree honestly and in good faith. Plenty of people pretend to disagree while using inflammatory language meant to spur reactions, commonly referred to as trolling. It's also quite easy for small teams and bot nets to spread to basically anywhere people gather online in order to sow anger and division to further their ends. To pretend otherwise is extremely disingenuous.
And to pretend that is happening here with zero evidence is silly. Have you ever clicked into a comment and seen something that look falsified, like a copy-paste comment from a user, or repeating phrases from multiple users? Cause I've only ever seen socialists and communists complaining about Democrats, and liberals calling them, "tankies," in return. Telling a small community on a small website to watch out for foreign actors because a small minority of comments are critical of Joe Biden is some McCarthy-esque nonsense.