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[–] Affidavit@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hmm... To debate with a conspiracy theorist or not... Such a difficult choice.

You know what, let me try something different...

You win this debate! I concede! Although I am not an American and don't live in America, I am a stooge of the American imperialists! And yes, like the other 8.1 billion people on the planet (sans you, of course), I live on stolen land! Have mercy!

[–] nigh7y@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know you can't take in information wholesale, right? News corporations have their biases. So do individuals. When talking about countries regarded as foreign adversaries, most of these reports about an unnamed individual tend to be bullshit.

[–] Affidavit@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did you even read the comment chain you're responding to? You know, the one where I said it is 'good to show genuine scepticism'? Or the one after that, where I linked the 'unnamed' individual's alleged GitHub?

I am not the one being overly trusting here. I think it is 'likely' that this story is true. I researched it, looked at the significant amount of evidence, and I am still not 100% convinced. That is far more than what I can say for you people replying to me en masse who all assume the story must be an American plot with absolutely no evidence to back up this claim.

Ugh, I need to figure out a way to unsubscribe from replies to a post. You people are bonkers.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Woah you read some anonymous person's social media page and went to a GitHub page that may or may not be connected to the same person?

Fuck, call the Pulitzer committee, we got ourselves an investigative journalist.

[–] Affidavit@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please keep responding to my comments everyone. I've decided to take this as an opportunity to block as many of you annoying mosquitoes as possible so I don't have to deal with you in the future.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

you annoying mosquitoes

Aussie liberal avoid dehumanizing people challenge: Impossible

[–] nigh7y@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

So let's get this straight, the unnamed individual has a name. The dude who got busted for overseas contract work using a VPN is still committing his work on GitHub… which requires a VPN. Either we're not getting the full story, or we're just being lied to for internet clout.

If you're not 100% convinced, why are you trying to defend this article as if it were fact?

[–] carl_marks_1312@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Ugh, I need to figure out a way to unsubscribe from replies to a post.

Stop posting shit takes, and if you did then at least engage in good faith

[–] carl_marks_1312@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can be a stooge for American imperialism without being actually American

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Going by their username I'm guessing they're from Australia, a country that famously has never been a stooge of American imperialism

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

And yes, like the other 8.1 billion people on the planet (sans you, of course), I live on stolen land! Have mercy!

Engaging in genocide minimization to own the socialists.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

drink your own piss and die, dumbass