• Sepia@mander.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    OP’s post history contains exclusively pro -China and anti-Western propaganda narratives, but this here has a special spin. Not that condemning Israel’s atrocities is wrong, but while posting this here OP’s communities literally celebrating Russia’s atrocities against Ukrainian civilians or China’s genocide against people in Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), and Inner Mongolia.

    As one study says:

    … The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month after the bans of the subreddits r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou … reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. …

    [Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we observe anti-Zionist and antisemitic behaviors, which show similarities to right-wing extremism … Our analysis suggests a concerning endorsement of authoritarian actions and extremist rhetoric on Lemmygrad. ml, further indicating that left-wing extremist communities on decentralized platforms should receive more attention from the academic community.

    It’s a deeply repugnant mindset.

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      1 hour ago

      This is an ad hominem attack. I can abhor both the IDF and the CCP simultaneously, and this post is pro-neither. If OP posts something “repugnant”, then call them out in that comment section.

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        1 hour ago

        Read their entire post history. The spin is absolutely clear.

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      Every time someone calls out Israel we get people discounting it because they are not perfect, and project motives.

      Every time. Suspicious no? All the shit to discount, corporations funding fake science to poison to save a buck, you cancel an israel critic for an alleged lack of purity.

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        Every time someone calls out Israel we get people discounting it because they are not perfect, and project motives.

        That doesn’t happen ‘every time’ nor is it about discounting Israel’s war crimes or what you call a ‘lack of purity.’ Just read OP’s post history. It’s a devastating testimony for a lack of any ethics.

        I know we should be friendly and polite here, but celebrating violence against innocent people because they perceive them as ‘enemies’ is - at best - brainwashed, and it is mentally derailed at worst. Just read the linked study or go to the comms and read the posts there yourself.

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          Israel is the most ratfucked online discussion. Legions of mechanized troll divisions scramble to any mention. Chatbots too, the newer generation ones, paid for with tax dollars. This is one of their go to moves, criticizing anyone posting anything, any media reporting anything. Al jazeera they are in a country mean to woman, and so forth. Coming from the worst people in the world.

          Not only do they ratfuck the discussion, they use the corrupt influence of the US government to get people cancelled on social media. Cancelled in a way people are not told why, a different issue, not even a violation, flags the person. Whether it’s mass flagging social media pretends not to see, or agencies and their contractors giving lists of accounts to violate.

          Any time you find yourself on the same side as those people, you should re examine what you are doing, to prevent being tooled. There are a thousand issues you could call out right now, like Iran War 2 they are hyping.

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            46 minutes ago

            The next wave of weird conspiracies just to distract from the topic.

            As an addition: You don’t need to believe me or the linked study. Just go to these communities and read their posts and comments yourself.