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Edgy teen angst comment right here.
Pretty much describes the entire lemmygrad instance
Super annoying, isn't it.
I got some clown named @bigMouthCommie who responded to me who thinks he's clever. It's a 5year old account with no other posts except to reply to me. He asked for citations thinking I wouldn't have any. I gave him a couple, but I know he'll never even look at them.
And like Rumpelstiltskin he fucking showed up lol what a loser.
@Buffaloaf @Hazdaz
Easy block for me. Thanks. :)
I remember when it first started Worldnews on reddit was swarmed with all these weird accounts like that. Multiple years old with no activity until that day and then 8 comments supporting Russia.
To the credit of reddit mods every account I reported for taken down.
Yeah I don't know how Lemmy works when it comes to that. I think with the upcoming US elections this kind of shit is going to explode here now that this site is getting more traffic. I really think people here are ill prepared for an onslaught of bad actors and I don't think mods here have any way to stop it.
I can't see them being able to do anything. Someone is going to have to add on something to the site that lets you mark accounts that are paid Russian shills that everyone else can see.
@Hazdaz
do you know how i know that you don't know how federation works?
Useful idiots. Anyone thinking defending Russia is defending communism is a moron. Russia isn't a Communist state, it's a fascist state.
The russian federation makes Japan look like a communist utopia in comparison. It is crazy that people still can not seem to figure out that russian federation ≠ the USSR.
The only thing Russia and the USSR they have in common is the facism
LOL. Entire families killed by US-trained death squads in El Salvador as a signal to indigenous people to stop political organizing inspires angst? OK.