• @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      6710 months ago

      I had to reread that twice to realize you weren’t upset at hexagons, and was wondering where you had found graphics of the Ukrainian war superimposed on turn based battle hex maps

      • @lingh0e@lemmy.film
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        9510 months ago

        lemmy.world defederated from a instance full of pro-russia shitheel trolls who would ruin any discussions regarding Ukraine. It’s very nice not having to scroll through their propaganda.

        • @bobman@unilem.org
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          10 months ago

          Meh. I never saw anything like that. Usually russian-sympathizers are downvoted into oblivion and there’s not that many of them.

          I’m curious exactly what these people were saying, but now I’ll never get to see because someone else decided to censor it for me.

          Not really defederating, but I hope we can update lemmy so censorship is optional. You can choose to have posts hidden by mods hidden from you, or not. That way everyone wins, except for the children who think “I don’t want to see this, so neither should anyone else!” And honestly, who cares about those kids?

          • Orphie Baby
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            310 months ago

            I got kicked from communities in lemmy.ml a year ago when I tried Lemmy for the first time, for not worshipping everything China did.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          8510 months ago

          Being pro Russia because you’re pro communist is so fucking weird to me. The Russian federation is an imperialist capitalist oligarchical fascist state.

            • The Quuuuuill
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              310 months ago

              I swear to god it seemed like there was a massive shift in pro Russian sentiment when we all found out Russia had interfered in the 2016 election because

              1. Obama was doing sanctions about it and a certain group of people is always anti Obama, regardless of what that means, politically
              2. Russia had interfered on behalf of the guy they wanted, therefore Russian interference good
          • @Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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            610 months ago

            Logic has no place in that weird mob mentality. They’re basically pro fascism, just you know the fascists that aren’t Western. Makes it good fascism somehow.

          • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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            410 months ago

            Because they’re not communists, they’re just fascists that don’t like being called fascists.

          • @lingh0e@lemmy.film
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            510 months ago

            No. They are not.

            Half of them are the obnoxious trust fund goons who lived on your floor in the dorms and had posters of Che on their walls. They generally came from wealth and this anti-capitalist rhetoric is just them rebelling against their parents. Their dad is probably a non-practicing jew who drives a VW Phaeton . They don’t know their birth mothers too well but their step moms are probably women who graduated from high school two classes ahead of themselves. The obnoxious goons who base their entire personality on these kinds of interactions, they pride themselves on being “disliked for speaking truth to power”.

            The other half are shitheel trolls who are too wrapped up in their own attempts at edgy bullshit to understand the difference between “it’s just a joke, bro” and “just drink the fucking kool-aid, bro”.

            Neither of those groups have any sense of self awareness.

            So nah, they aren’t communists.

              • @viking
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                110 months ago

                I hope we left most of them on reddit.

                • @wewbull@feddit.uk
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                  510 months ago

                  No platform is free of them. All depends how big it is as to how much attention they give it.

            • @bobman@unilem.org
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              210 months ago

              Half of them are the obnoxious trust fund goons who lived on your floor in the dorms and had posters of Che on their walls.

              That’s… so specific. It sounds like you’re just saying things, lol.

            • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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              010 months ago

              Your dad ever bought a Jaffa orange ? well he’s buying nukes for Israël. He’s a jew

        • @bobman@unilem.org
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          -610 months ago

          Lemme guess, they say fringe opinions you don’t like and that makes them trolls?

    • @I_hate_you_welcome@feddit.nl
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      710 months ago

      Thank god, they flamed the crap out of me a couple of days ago, I thought this was what Lemmy was turning into and considered actually leaving.

      • @eee@lemm.ee
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        610 months ago

        I just block anyone who trolls. It takes a while, but the more you block, the less they become a problem.

          • @Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Kinda. They still appear with a message telling you that they are blocked. You can press a button to show the comment anyway. It is like a soft block where you can decide whether you want to read a comment or not.

      • @maynarkh@feddit.nl
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        1510 months ago

        Users from hexbear I presume. It’s an instance with predominantly Russia-China supporting users.

        • lad
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          -310 months ago

          Wow, that’s news for me, never seen them supporting those 🤔

    • @Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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      310 months ago

      They seem to have taken their ball and gone home mostly, thankfully. The pro Russia capitalistic imperialism talk from people who are supposedly anti imperilism, communists was just some of the most absurd mental gymnastics I’ve ever seen.

      • The Quuuuuill
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        410 months ago

        Lemmy.World defederated them. They didn’t take their ball and go home. Someone with some sense kicked their ball over the fence and said “we don’t play games with jerkasses”

        • @Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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          010 months ago

          They defederated themselves from at least one of the larger instances before that. They were in full temper tantrum mode about people not enjoying their trolling.