No one wants to talk about the thousands of extra bots that reddit released during the blackout and afterwards to keep up with the illusion. A whole lot of sub users on reddit are engaging with bots. In fact, some gullible people think r/place is run by users, and not the thousands of bots run by different subs, as well as reddit admins.
In order to counter the Trump bot accusations going on this thread:
The Trump appointed Supreme Justices are conservative stooges that are clearly just trying to ram through as much conservative stuff into the justice system as they can. The cagey abortion rights the US enjoyed (though sometimes not in practicality) were abolished, which is bad. There were in fact a lot of posts about this on hexbear at the time it was happening. You can now search this if you so desire.
Trump escalated sanctions against Cuba. This comes up from time to time, but he's obviously not in a position to directly affect this at this precise moment, though the cudgel of "swing state" Florida Cubans is used to avoid any de-escalation.
Trump-supporting state legislatures are escalating attacks against trans people, both as a practical threat (bigots can attack trans people under the assumption that their state's law enforcement won't do anything about it) and as a legal escalation to remove any federal protections for trans people. This is also bad. Trump is also partly running on this. This comes up frequently on hexbear.
Trump didn't succeed in the wall (which itself has had varied response amongst his supporters), but he did increase funding for ICE, expanded detention camps etc. This comes up when it's in the news, but Trump specific policies don't tend to be news regarding this right now for some reason.
Trump's tax cuts for certain sectors and the ultra-wealthy. idk why you'd think hexbear would support this?
and so on
I'm not sure why I'm doing this. I'm not sure why people are surprised that a news aggregation and commentary site tends to talk about things that are currently happening as opposed to things that happened three years ago.
What's the difference between a fascist and an "anarchist" who does everything they can to kneecap the only viable left leaning political party in the US?
There's no practical difference, just window dressing. They both cheer on oppression and pain for those suffering under Republicans.
And don't even get me started on communists. Left and right authoritarians, I've gotten death threats from both of them. Whether it's some leftist telling me I would "get the wall" when the Revolution comes or some fucking Republican telling me that the US was only for Christians and that they'll go after "traitors" soon, you get to the same fucking place at the end of the day. The only real difference is that there's far more Republicans, and they're far more organized than left authoritarians.
Honestly it's exhausting to the whole lemmy experience that every time something gets even slightly political, there's an extreme communist in the comments pushing their agenda.
I can literally say "hey man they all suck yo fuck politics am I right?" And in comes a guy who tells me I'm a Republican or Democrat or fuck America, whatever. I can even agree that the news is biased in America, and I'll still get the same response.
It makes conversations for the average consumer on the platform unproductive at best, unsettling in its worst form.
Anarchy and Communism are not the fucking same, what a retarded meme
To anyone offended, Go watch "The Ringer"
Lmao that hat reminded me of this (short) video:
Edit: Piped doesn't seem to be working? Maybe an issue with Shorts. https://youtu.be/qowJStEn534
https://piped.video/watch?v=qowJStEn534
Also check out his other shorts, he never misses, legitimately great content.
lmao, i've been getting that constantly
It's a hard knock life for we bots
Ayyy Krolden! Long time no see, I remember you from the beforetimes! Hope you've been doing well!
Correct. Fake progressives who are in effect right wingers because they vote as a block continually for war and Wal street over working class people. They're experts at gas lighting as well.
Love my Hexbears
💋The CCP, the RNC, and the DNC are not your friends.
Vote your conscience. Always remember to see who's funding who, who will gain, and who will lose. There are better choices than others, even in when confronted by only bad choices.
Watching communists/socialists and conservatives/fascists arguing about whose ideology is better * Grabs popcorn..*
Oh how I wish that was true. Unfortunately I've seen far too many people support Russia in this war, both offline and online, including here.
Maybe I'm wrong about hexbear, I certainly hope that I am, but on lemmygrad I saw long posts with many upvotes explaining how this war is a good thing and Putin is a hero that is fighting against the capitalists etc.
the strawman is "vote blue no matter who"
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no, it's vote blue whenever "red" is a literal dictator, who promises to be a dictator when elected, who tried a coup once already, who leads a fascist gop splinter group...
vote any fucking color against that shit, not no matter who.
there's bad, and there's barely distinguishable from hitler bad...
stop lyingAmerican politics in a nutshell.
I just wish they don't go around force feeding everyone their shit...
Lemmy has a lot of legacy ussers and early adopters that genuenly believe this shit. Be it they are ccp shills or counter culturall or simply a bunch of kids that never grew out of their soviet comrade LARPING face (which i think its the most likely since i used to be like that too thoug not as intence ). But they are not bots, probably have a bunch of bots to promote their bs, but its not like anybody is gonna change their mind no mather how much footage of the tianamen square massacre you show them, they are too far into it to change dogma.
i've lost track of the number of times this has happened to me since joining the fediverse and part of me wishes i had stayed on reddit to remain ignorant of the of ignorant liberal masses.
Bigot and transphobic label thrown at people who are not blue.
