this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
452 points (92.8% liked)

World News

32297 readers
1081 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] meth_dragon@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

entity with the time, resources to try to sway public opinion

why would any foreign political entity waste its valuable english proficient resources on astroturfing an online backwater filled with politically illiterate nobodies? peak liberal solipsism

[–] Jesus@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It would appear that way yes......and as mentioned, they have a history of having extremely thin skin and doing exactly that. So do I expect some group to do the exact thing they have always done? Yes. Yes I do.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would like to ask you to employ some critical thinking here. Setting aside that the people responding to you have much better English than even a pretty high-level English speaker coming from Mandarin, most of these accounts have months or years of post histories spent almost entirely talking to each other on their previously un-federated instance, including in some cases very harsh arguing, as well as talking about the US on a personal level with intimate detail (and/or whatever other country they say they are from). Do you really believe the most simple answer is that this is all kabuki theater by the CPC to astroturf an obscure collection of websites by wasting a ridiculous amount of resources and the time of highly English-fluent actors? vs just "some people think differently from you"?

If you concede this point, then I would like to ask you to just consider for a moment the implications of the fact that you took the much more absurd and flimsy explanation as though it was just the common-sense explanation. What does that say about the way that you conceptualize the world and what people believe?

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

In all fairness, a big part of my posting history is just reacting with emotes to shit. Maybe I am a bot?

thonk-cri cyber-lenin

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

And by "have a history of it" you mean "I've been told it so many times in the western echo chambers I hang out it that I just implicitly believe it.

Mate, you've already had it explained to you where we're coming from, but apparently the idea of people who genuinely disagree with you is so fucking foreign to you that your redditor brain literally cannot process it, so you continue to descend into paranoid delusion.

[–] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

they have a history of having extremely thin skin and doing exactly that.

Are you sure you're not talking about another country? amerikkka