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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit I’ve never seen a bigger example of Russian propaganda before. THIS is where it all comes from! Scroll through the comments on this and it’s tons of people saying the most insane bullshit about Zelenskyy.

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

OP's posting history consists entirely of spamming such Putin-propaganda and similarly manufactured stories all over lemmy.

[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin offering arms to other countries. Russian version of NATO.

Russia tried that, the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Everyone's quitting.

[–] Veritas@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently they don't learn.

[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So how many sockpuppet/bot accounts do you have? Every comment you post immediately gets a +4. There's absolutely no way that less than 1 minute after you post a comment on a Lemmy post that's already downvoted to shit immediately gets 4 genuine upvotes unless you're manipulating it.

Edit: and now the fake insta-upvotes on his comments disappeared, someone's getting rid of the evidence lol

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On kbin instances you can see the identities of everyone who's upvoted and downvoted a post, I'm looking forward to there being better tools for automatically identifying clusters of sockpuppets and bots like this.

[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but kbin still has huge issues with properly replicating posts, comments and votes from Lemmy instances. It often doesn't match up with what I see on Lemmy itself.

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Y'all got a transcript or something, good lord

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Veritas@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If someone linked you a 1.75 hour long video from Radio Free Asia/Europe, Voice of America, or Ukraine Pravda, would you sit through the whole thing just to make a counter argument, or would you (correctly) point out that they are garbage sources that should be disregarded?

[–] Veritas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You could say the same about any other news source you dislike. You are just comparing it with news sources you already know get funded by the West without any basis.

[–] BenderOver@artemis.camp 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What infuriates me the most is my tax payer money paying for Ukrainians to have sex. Why can’t that money help me have sex? Absolutely crossing the line here.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could volunteer to go fight for Ukraine, after which you get the sex. Win/win.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ignore the shill account. It was only created 8 hours ago with this single post. Most likely will be seen again soon claiming mock outrage about fake news in some other country. This is just what Veritas and the other Russian trolls do to stroke daddy Puddin's ego.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I interpreted this particular comment as a joke. I still think it is, it's just taking an opportunity to say "I'd like the government to hire hookers for me."

[–] BenderOver@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

That dude talking about me? Cause it is a joke..cause the post as a whole is just ridiculous lol

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

U.S. bullying ends now!

So... when does Russia bullying end then? Or does that not exist?

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

It is impossible for the good guys to bully anyone. Anything done by the good guys is, by definition, good, and so cannot be bullying, which is bad.

[–] bazookabill@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

What a trash vid, made me laugh hard.