That is quite true as well. Lemmy gets Russian shills on Ukraine coverage worse than Reddit though. I don’t know if that would be tankies or Russian trolls.
InternetUser2012@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe because on reddit you have an absolute fuck ton of right wing propaganda bots.
Skavargen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Godric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve noticed several pro-china shill accounts as well. Fortunately their attempts at astroturfing are made in China, very obvious and poorly done.
soviettaters@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I didn’t see any specific “propaganda bots”, just bots regurgitating anything that was posted
InternetUser2012@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because they are meant to seem like you’re talking to a human. Bot/troll farms are a thing.
Ooops@feddit.de 1 year ago
No, bots aren’t a thing alhough a lot of people pretend them to be. Trolls are still either human or very obvious.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
WELL SAID, FELLOW HUMAN.
gutternonsense@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thankk you. The Overton window has been forcibly molded to what would’ve been the mid- Right when I was a kid growing up (90s-00s). This is because of Fox News. And then the internet moreso via social media has tried at at least ripping it to the extreme right, aka alt-right.
I imagine a lot of what younger people think of as left/liberal was very much a moderate view point just a generation ago.
So when you evegrt a new medium (or at least a new venue like Lemmy) you might find that organic discourse is a lot more sane, tempered, moderate.
heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Remember during COVID, some people thought washing your hands is being left.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Remember when people thought that a virus sweeping through the human race was politically affiliated?
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 year ago
While this is hilarious and I want it to be true, can you pass any source on it?
bert@lemmy.monster 1 year ago
Co-workers mocking me on the daily was all the source I ever needed.
heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Uhh, I don’t have a direct source , I think it was a German from the afd on twitter or a festival(Corona Demo), I don’t have an X account anymore and don’t want to create a new one to search it.
atempuser23@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A president fomented a rebellion in the capitol of the United States to hold power. In the current landscape that statement alone makes me a leftist.
The words them selves have been so changed and loaded that it’s nearly impossible to even write a post about what I want to say. The political discourse around the ‘right’ has driven conservative politics right out of the conversation.
What passes for conservative politics is literally insane to me. There used to be some kind of agreement that there were problems and what the problems were. The main discourse was on how to solve the problems facing the America people.
The main effort of the ‘conservative’ discourse is no longer around solving shared issues. It seems to be centered around the idea of legislating ‘solutions.’ The idea seems to be to weaken all of the government checks and balances so that this can be achieved.
For an ‘classic’ conservative this is when I walk to keep checks , balances, voting rights, governmental oversight and freedom of religion. No conservative leaders are standing for this.
The voices in the Gop that had that kind of sanity focus have been sidelined and are all of the much older generations. That last semi-effective voice I heard from the right was Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking out against Trump,nazis and anti-antisemitism.
CalvinCopyright@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t tell me what to do.
This is the actual Republican platform. They don’t care a whit about what we consider to be ‘problems’. The only thing they think is problematic is that they might not have power, and that we might have power. In the pursuit of the ‘right’ people telling the ‘wrong’ people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the ‘wrong’ people from telling the ‘right’ people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder… anything goes.
Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).
Piers@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It seems as though the only “problem” that the modern American right are concerned about is how to ensure they have unquestioned power and authority and that noone ever oppose them.
CalvinCopyright@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t tell me what to do.
You are absolutely correct. For Republicans, in the pursuit of the ‘right’ people telling the ‘wrong’ people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the ‘wrong’ people from telling the ‘right’ people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder… anything goes.
Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).