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[–] Jesus@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (263 children)

Lots of suspicious comments in this thread. Seems like political astro-turfing has already arrived on Lemmy

[–] randint@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (51 children)

I know right! How come there are so, so many people defending China here? I thought they were the minority. Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (19 children)

The issue is there are a much higher percentage here because brigading wasn't allowed on reddit so they'd be banned for this type of activity. They come here and can do what they want, which is fine as long as it doesn't hurt other people doing what they want, which in this case is arguably happening because it clutters the comments with the same thing repeated over and over, and they are organized so it's all up voted. This doesn't make them the majority opinion though. It makes them the organized opinion. They are not the majority by any means, but they will make sure to come to China's defence whenever it's mentioned, where others won't bother.

[–] Ideology@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

It makes them the organized

iww

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