• MercuryUprising@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Check OPs posting history. Pro-China content, Pro-Russia content, ignores every article critical of Russia/China. If this isn’t a troll account, then OP is the very definition of a useful idiot.

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      1 year ago

      checks my own posting history

      Looks fine to me. Oh wait, I’m linking to those well known pro-Russia and pro-China outlets, the Associated Press, Reuters, and the New York Times. Don’t listen to me, I’ll corrupt your soul with heterodox articles about publicly available government documents.

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        There’s no “discussion” to be had with someone arguing in bad faith. The “I’m just asking kweschens” crowd use this method to exhaust any real discussion by putting the pressure on defending against bullshit claims. Bullshit claims shouldn’t even be acknowledged and the people presenting them shouldn’t be allowed to take part in the discussion. Don’t like it? Find a thread that accepts that bullshit. There’s a website I know that will be happy to humor that sort of discussion.

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        1 year ago

        Absolutely. Harvard estimates that China’s 50 Cent troll army makes 488 million comments per year. And that was their estimate from 2016. Always be skeptical of what you’re read, and if you’re suspicious, check the poster’s comment history.

        I actually got a temp ban for calling out a massive Russian troll account on Reddit because, “You have to attack the idea, not the user.”