• squiblet@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    Other than the possibility they’re shills, it seems to be “we oppose the EU, NATO and the US, therefore China and Russia are fantastic”. Which makes no sense, obviously, because making sense would be to oppose China and Russia for the same reasons they don’t like the US and the EU.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      bruh there ain’t no paid shills on lemmy. there is little monetary or propagandist value in small websites. Really wish people (from both tankies and here) would stop saying this stupid shit

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Oh, and I’ll add, I was told that on reddit in 2010… when there were people who only responded to threads about glysophate/RoundUp all day. Mention RoundUp, they’d appear. Around 2012, if you mentioned Israel, 2-3 people would come and argue with you about it. Around 2015-6, there was obvious astroturf about ‘Walk Away’ from the Democratic Party, anti Hillary Clinton, pro ‘Q’, and pro-Trump total crap. At all times: “bruh there ain’t no paid shills on reddit. Really wish people would stop saying this stupid shit”.

        So back in reality, people are paid by governments to spread any sort of discord in the US. They don’t care what site it’s on. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone wanted to discredit and manipulate the real left on sites like Hexbear.

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Reddit is huge, even in 2010-2012. Lemmy is tiny in comparison and has no monetary value.

          • squiblet@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Monetary value isn’t relevant, only manipulating people. Hexbear is the largest community of people of that political persuasion.

            In 2015-2017 they targeted gamers in online games.

            • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              they’re not tho. Reddit’s communism subs are still larger.

              When you say that these fringe communities have government shills, you just look like a nutter, equally of a nutter as to when they think this community has government shills.

              • squiblet@kbin.social
                2·
                1 year ago

                As noted, that’s exactly what people said about every community ever. “Shills? Manipulation? Nobody would do that!” except that various world governments funded divisions to do exactly that, it turns out.

                • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Can you list any website or community that has less than 10k active posters that has shills?

                  • squiblet@kbin.social
                    2·
                    1 year ago

                    Why would I be able to do that? As I mentioned about the roundup thing, that doesn’t matter. They just search for anything relevant.