Hi friend, I’m Bob from Ohio (or maybe Florida!). Anyway, I promise there’s nothing to worry about… other than the billions of human flesh eating illegal immigrants flooding across the border to torture your family for their sadistic pleasure. Just vote for Trump and everything will be fine!

I think this is too nuanced for lemmy.ml to handle, they prefer black and white

Fair enough, I see your point. Thanks for explaining.

That does nothing to solve the problem. I want to see the Fediverse succeed.

I’m considering leaving the fediverse altogether

I’ve had moments where I considered it too, because of all the tankies and propaganda, but I’m still here because I really want to see it succeed.

Unfortunately, I won’t even admit to anyone that I use it, let alone recommend it. I think from a rational outside perspective, the unfiltered Fediverse is an extremist echochamber. Some of the things that get said and heavily upvoted are wild.

I’ve had death threats multiple times from Hexbear users, and I’ve abandoned an account because Lemmy.ml users followed me around and downvoted everything I posted (which was mostly memes at the time).

We can’t expect people to deal with all of that when there’s already a relatively steep learning curve when joining. There’s no corporation running the show to fight propaganda, we have to deal with it, or the Fediverse is at risk of going the way of Voat.

Thank you.

More like another Afghanistan, like the one the broke the USSR.

Except Russia has already lost ten times as many troops in a fifth of the time.

I’LL CRANK MY HOG AND MEET YOU AT THE BBQ TO START THE HUNT

Weird to see a non-biased post about this conflict with a respectable news source on Lemmy.

They’re not even really Marxists/communists, it’s a facade for propaganda.

Yeah, theres a lot of propaganda and people fighting about it.

What do you mean specifically when you say “the media”?

Yes I think you’re right about the Kremlin’s approach: they exacerbate weaknesses that are already there.

They understand Kremlin oppression.

Yes fair enough

Should have happened 6 months ago

If someone invaded your country and started murdering people you’d want to win the war.

divide and conquer

Bingo. I wish more people would see this, it’s shameful how badly democracies around the world have been caught with their pants down.

Authoritarian governments have a huge advantage when it comes to malicious propaganda. So much less oversight.

Yeah, I think other factors help them do it. A lot of their propaganda is designed to support political extremes that already exist.

Why go seek shelter from the Kremlin if he wasn’t already compromised? Seems like there are many better places he could have gone.

It does what?

How many people do you think the US has killed?