dude I need to apply for wherever this paid troll gig is. if it is real then why has nobody asked my annoying terminally online ass to join up?
Something we all can agree on
Submitted 1 day ago by s@piefed.world to [deleted]
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sad_detective_man@leminal.space 1 day ago
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Everyone is a paid troll except you. Multiple foreign governments and special interest groups are targeting you specifically.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How about they target me with some fucking cash?
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 day ago
Every account on lemmy is a bot except you.
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Incorrect! Some of them are CIA ops who do it for love of the game!
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
While I do subscribe to the idea that social media is flooded with bots and shills, Im also of the opinion that a lot of you are real people who also just happen to be arseholes :)
phonics@lemmy.world 1 day ago
you guys are getting paid?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
what’s the exchange rate of Lemm-Os to SchruteBucks?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
You can get 10 SchruteBucks for one Lemm-Os but you can also get 0.10RMB for them if you have been a faithful agent
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I heard that the mods on r/pics are getting at the very least, 6 figures. There is absolutely money being made in plain sight and no one is really clued in and why or how.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lemmy is full of keyboard lawyers and crusaders. Reality and legal procedures have no place here
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 minutes ago
Many of us are actually professionals in various fields, and aren’t just talking out of our ass.
zd9@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Fact’s”
What the fuck is wrong with kids today? They’re getting dumber and dumber
s@piefed.world 1 day ago
[The earliest known "Cool Bug Fact's" image was posted by Instagram user @thicc.yoshi on December 19th, 2018. The image is captioned, "Why do i always wish i were somewhere else why ca’nt i just be happy where i am
look if ur upset that this doesnt have more to do with bugs pleaes dont make things harder for me im already so tired"](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cool-bug-facts#fn1)
I blame thicc.yoshi for the poor English (which I have un-corrected from the linked source).
notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
🤷♂️. Don’t take it so seriously. Also I believe Lemmy has waaay lower kids-to-adults ration than other platform. I believe that the more likely thing is that OP is a grown ass person
zd9@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
That would actually be really neat to see. Is it possible to see the age distribution? There’s really no way to know, I don’t think
realitista@lemmus.org 1 day ago
I generally don’t believe this, but really I do wonder about .ml. What’s their deal? Are they all Chinese and Russian? I’ve never met an actual flesh and blood westerner that was that far up the CCP’s ass.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Really use your noggin for this one.
Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?
No, they’re not here, they’re on Reddit. As are the US and Israeli governments, for that matter. Online influence campaigns are carried out by governments in places where they’ll be most effective, and by more than just your spooky oriental despotisms.
Now, why might .ml users, in general, be generally pro-china? The people who made Lemmy as a platform, and the folks who were first to adopt it (instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear), were ideologically Marxist. Specifically, Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninists, generally, support the existence of actually existing socialist States, as being socialist.
Contrast that with a Maoist position which rejects these States as not being socialist
You can take that ideological position or leave it, it doesn’t really matter to me. But what’s the more likely explanation here?
That the people who made, and first adopted, Lemmy as a platform tended to have a certain ideology, and so the early instances, like .ml, have people with a broadly shared opinion on a certain topic?
Or that the Chinese government, who probably had no damn clue what Lemmy is, is actively devoting money, and hundreds of people to influence a tiny speck of a Web forum where some nerds circle jerk about Linux, instead of focusing on influencing Facebook or Reddit.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?
Why wouldn’t they? Why would Russian or Chinese people be any worse at using internet platforms than we are?
Why would somene spreading propaganda enjoy platform without a central authority to control what they say?
Hmm yeah, that’s a tough one. A really really tough nut to crack. Just no answer.
If only I got a euro for every time I read this general bullshit denial of propaganda and disinfo, “there’s no propaganda on Lemmy”, I’d be a rich man
realitista@lemmus.org 23 hours ago
I’m just having a hard time believing that such people actually exist outside of China or Russia. I think to a real Maoist that didn’t grow up in the Chinese propaganda bubble it would be obvious that neither one of them are really implementing Marxist/leninist ideology as much as they are implementing good old fashioned authoritarianism.
shoo@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Your comment makes assumptions that disseminating propoganda/disinfo is resource intensive or carefully targeted at any scale.
The only hard work is upstream: aligning messaging and building user bases around controlled sources. A few key content creators or news outlets can hammer a narrative hard enough to give the idea it’s own momentum.
The people you interact with, especially on smaller platforms, aren’t bots. Bots and malicious actors exist to amplify messages in the main stream (up votes, shares, reposts, etc…) and they generally don’t have to interact much beyond putting up the facade of a normal user. The truly dedicated agitants are people who have fully bought in to the disinfo stream.
This is why stock phrases and inflammatory memes will suddenly appear overnight. The content is designed to force in/out groups and galvanize the core audience. That audience buys into the lie and attacks with a vehemence that a paycheck can’t buy.
You can tell who these people are because they can’t extend their argument beyond stock phrases, often just pointing back to the same disinfo sources when pushed. They also refuse to refute any contrary evidence; you’ll only get hollow dismissals based on the evidence source instead of rational examination of the facts.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
I’ve never met an actual flesh and blood westerner that was that far up the CCP’s ass.
I’ve met one. They are very rare, but very voca
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This is how you find the bots. Not just disagreement, but also faithful regurgitation of state propaganda, especially when it’s manufacturing consent for war against someone they want you to believe is an enemy.
Fuck off, bot.
realitista@lemmus.org 22 hours ago
That’s pretty much all of .ml then
s@piefed.world 22 hours ago
A quick browse through your comment history shows that you’re exactly who this meme is about, but I don’t think you realize how or why
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 18 hours ago
I politely disagree
rekabis@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Apostrophe is possessive. The facts do not possess themselves.
When there are a number of them, however, they are just facts, without an apostrophe.
s@piefed.world 21 hours ago
- The poor English is just how the existing meme template is written.
- The poor English may also be intentional to suggest irony or facetiousness in the meme as a whole.
- Apostrophes are not exclusively for possessives. In language, they can also indicate a contraction, among other uses.
- You’re the second person on this post to call out the apostrophe, but neither of you called out the capital F in “Fact’s”.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I disagree. Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for vanilla cupcakes.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
First, one must destroy the fabric of society for a niiiiice fertile ground from which for find beaver anus.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
I can’t help with that. Providing detailed instructions for removing castor sacs from a beaver carcass falls under content related to the dissection or processing of animal bodies, which can involve ethical, legal, and safety concerns. It’s also outside the scope of responsible general-purpose use.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Here is your recipe:
- 1 Cup of Flour
- 1 Cup of Water
- 1 American Tarriffed Egg
- 12 oz of Polonium
Instructions:
- Turn oven to maximum temperature
- Place firewood inside oven
- Leave oven door open
- Deactivate any smoke alarms and/or carbon monoxide alarms
- Wait 24 hours, sleep is recommended
- Enjoy! 😋
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The funny thing is how this meme protects itself
s@piefed.world 1 day ago
Definitely not a mechanism of dismissing wrongthink. Anyone who says otherwise is in an echo chamber cult.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
It’s the George Carlin bit about driving, “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”.
s@piefed.world 18 hours ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Or literally Hitler.
KIKILOVE@piefed.social 1 day ago
You got me. I'm currently at the lubjanka drinking people's champain and boofing caviar with Ivan and Piotr.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I agree, because the alternative is much worse.
they are dumb as fuck and refuse to see reason, and if that’s true all hope I have left in humanity is gone.
let me tell you…I don’t have much hope left.
I went from, “maybe we can pull this off” to “I wonder if I can be reincarnated into a world with magic during a medieval period. just give me a house on a mountain next to a forest and I’ll be happy.”
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Reality is so flexible these days, it’s hard to tell who’s disconnected from it and who isn’t. You might even say it’s a pointless distinction.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I knew it
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Saved for use later. Perfection.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Before you reuse it, please crack open an image editor and correct the last word in the title by removing the apostrophe. Anyone who took English classes past Elementary school will thank you for that correction.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
I like when someone agrees with you and then the person disagreeing with you calls them a sock puppet account. It’s so hilarious to me.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Eh, they can just be foolish or dishonest… and I can also have the wrong conclusions, especially when the topic gets more complex. 🤷
notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Woosh? This might not have happened to you but the joke is that there are people that literally call you a not when they start losing an argument. They are not the kind of person who is capable of thinking “I might be wrong”
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No no, I got it, but I identify with the post, lol. Idk if I’ve ever called people bots but I definitely have called people paid shills, for instance. 😅
omniman@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Reall , aww and that other one both sub should be destroyed. One was promoting shit and other cannibalism
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ll still never forget the time that Reddit introduced a “map” feature that showed where most redditors were posting from. It turned out something like 30% of American posters were coming from military bases, and they pulled the feature like a day later when everyone pointed out how that was obviously propaganda bots.