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More likely I’ll get blocked because it’s lemmy.ml Clicking post now… let’s see it it still works.

Insofar as you and @[email protected] sound like dumbasses, it works.

The socialist and MAGA crowd (basically the same kind of people)

What even is this? Horseshoe theory brainworms? Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists? You think people who want to end capitalism are the same as the people who want to maintain it?

I’m fairly certain the hexbear instance is a Chinese troll farm.

Anyone who isn’t either a liberal or MAGA must be a paid shill of a government the Atlantic Council doesn’t like this week. Not other possibility exists, thanks to two red scares and two cold wars.

I remember conversations with them would come to an instant halt by simply linking to the wikipedia entry on the Tienanmen Square massacre.

• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• 1989 Tian'anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• Tank Man video footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989

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We know that Russia and China, among others, have troll farms working across social media to try to shape the narrative.

The Blue Anon conspiracy theories never seem to end. Just today the NYT has re-shifted the conspiracy from Russia to China.

• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away