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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour ago

honestly Palestine/Hamas was trying to commit genocide too but they got uno reverse carded

[–] [email protected] 46 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Because the big players there are not serious idealogues, they are paid a paltry sum through private channels to constantly spread Russian and Chinese disinformation in their larger psyop campaign against the West.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Highly doubtful. The amount of time, money, and effort would be much better spent elsewhere. Lemmy audience is very small.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Time

Basically none on the part of the handlers. Often this arrangement is handled by a private firm that doesn't necessarily have to be Russian or Chinese, I have heard of one operating in Australia. The posters themselves are spending a lot of time, but they're the ones selling it.

Money

Again, they're not exactly paying these guys a living wage, and even if they were, it's peanut crumbs for state-level actors.

Effort

A lot of people say that Lemmy is not worth the effort to demoralize because it's too small, I say the effort is too small to not be worth the investment. I would even say that Lemmy users are self-selected for radicalization in some ways, broadly speaking they are fed up with corporate social media and corporatism in general.

It's also a somewhat important step to have a place they can speak unfiltered amongst themselves, no matter how small the clubhouse is. That's where the real funky shit happens.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Exactly. Watch the downvotes for your comment roll in as day becomes night in the west.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

as day becomes night in the west.

Title of my wild west themed romance novel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I think I saw that in LaGuardia. Cover has a cowboy rubbing his horse’s backside as the sun sets behind the old saloon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A whopping two downvotes, yeah I'm sure the paid social media spam targets the 17k active users on lemmy.world and not the billions of users on Facebook

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

It’s only 2 PM in California.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

For anyone that needs to hear it, you can have both. You can live in a free society and also plot to bisect your nearest oligarch next time they go to their favorite sushi restaurant

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Is there any other kind of genocide besides institutionalized?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I guess commonplace decentralized pogroms like what happened to Jews and Roma throughout Europe historically

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

if everyone would mutually agree on killing certain people they could commit it without an institution ig

[–] Mechaguana 3 points 7 hours ago

Is class warfare institutionalized? Seems like a non conscious consensus sometimes

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Turks against Armenians then Kurds? Yes

Russians against Chechens? Yes

Chinese against Uighurs?

  • One must choose to believe either the representatives of all the Muslim majority countries or US media

Ukrainian Banderites in the Donbas? Exercise for the reader