I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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[–] 74 points 3 years ago (21 children)

Maybe because on reddit you have an absolute fuck ton of right wing propaganda bots.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago* (11 children)

    Thankk you. The Overton window has been forcibly molded to what would've been the mid- Right when I was a kid growing up (90s-00s). This is because of Fox News. And then social media propagandists have tried ripping it to the extreme right, aka alt-right.

    I imagine a lot of what younger people think of as left/liberal was very much a moderate view point just a generation ago.

    So when you move to a new medium not propagandized yet (or at least a new venue like Lemmy) you might find that organic discourse is a lot more sane, tempered, and moderate.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Remember during COVID, some people thought washing your hands is being left.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    While this is hilarious and I want it to be true, can you pass any source on it?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Co-workers mocking me on the daily was all the source I ever needed.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Mocking you for......washing your hands? Wow. That's....uh.... something.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Don't tell me what to do.

    Of course they mock you for washing your hands! Telling them to wash their hands and wear masks so they don't get COVID and fucking die, is still 'telling them to do something', and (/s) that's terrible (/s). In the pursuit of the 'right' people telling the 'wrong' people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the 'wrong' people from telling the 'right' people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder... anything goes.

    Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It seems as though the only "problem" that the modern American right are concerned about is how to ensure they have unquestioned power and authority and that noone ever oppose them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Don't tell me what to do.

    You are absolutely correct. For Republicans, in the pursuit of the 'right' people telling the 'wrong' people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the 'wrong' people from telling the 'right' people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder... anything goes.

    Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Don't tell me what to do.

    This is the actual Republican platform. They don't care a whit about what we consider to be 'problems'. The only thing they think is problematic is that they might not have power, and that we might have power. In the pursuit of the 'right' people telling the 'wrong' people what to do, and in the pursuit of keeping the 'wrong' people from telling the 'right' people what to do, anything goes. Hypocrisy, lies, crime, election fraud, subverting courts, coups, false patriotism, false piety, terrorism, even outright murder... anything goes.

    Know the enemy, spread the word to your friends and family (and maybe further).

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    That is quite true as well. Lemmy gets Russian shills on Ukraine coverage worse than Reddit though. I don't know if that would be tankies or Russian trolls.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I've noticed several pro-china shill accounts as well. Fortunately their attempts at astroturfing are made in China, very obvious and poorly done.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You have to appreciate their stupid confidence though. It's entertaining.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but I have to block it just to save my sanity. Saw one of them denying genocide and when called out I got a pretty collage of economic statistics about why the US sucks balls and China rules...I'm not even American.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    I've blocked a few as well. No sense wasting your time with fantasy posters who conveniently ignore the issues of their own country. As if we don't get videos of people being sealed inside apartment buildings, live meat markets, and other insanities. I'm American and, while some states want to erode history because they're just as thin skinned as these Chinese propagandists, at least we can talk about slavery, trail of tears, Tulsa riot, and other negatives without threat of prison and hopes of social progress. Tiananmen Square though? Ha.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I didn't see any specific "propaganda bots", just bots regurgitating anything that was posted

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Because they are meant to seem like you're talking to a human. Bot/troll farms are a thing.

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