• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      Doesn’t change the fact that the Russian propaganda machine is in full swing since they started the war in the sovereign nation of Ukraine.

      We encounter them daily here, mostly from tankie instances like your hexbear.

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      I’m starting to think Lemmy’s federation system is amazing at fostering communautarism and even extremism.

      What are you bringing to this topic apart from a fairly toxic même that just creates more rift between people ? Is it much better than an actual Russian bot ?

      • MaeBorowski [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        The image in OP is what is toxic. Fostering a kind of echo chamber where the people who disagree with the prevailing narrative and bring reasoned arguments that contradict it get written off as “foreign agents” is extremely toxic, also nationalistic, and often borderline racist. It’s also childish. Pointing out how childish it is to tell someone “you’re just a RuSsIaN bOt!” because you don’t like what they have to say is definitely not toxic, quite the opposite.

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          But discrediting someone’s opinion by just posting this meme is NOT toxic ?

          So it’s toxic to assume someone might be a Russian bot but it is not toxic to disregard the opinion of everybody that said that ? You know there are bots online. Maybe not much here but there was definitely many on Reddit. So bots are real but someone that points out a bot must be wrong.

          This is weird.