Confused Westerners who have chosen the world’s weirdest “team” to be on and support uncritically (or been driven there by the very real shittiness of the Western system in some respects)?
‘Confused’ is a strong word. But they’re overwhelmingly privileged Westerners who have transitioned from the Manichean millenarianism of suburban American evangelical Christianity to a mirror image. The same in every way except orientation.
Their endless parade of apocalyptic proclamations and screeds on how we deserve the coming collapse for the sin of existing are… quite familiar to anyone who used to be in evangelical communities.
Nah, I think Lemmy is treated as a training ground. Think about this - if an actual Russian or Chinese state propaganda agency approached Dessalines and offered to fund Lemmy development in exchange for getting their agents on the admin list, how quickly would he nut himself?
Lmao. State secrets are a patriotic duty, comrade. But you are right, they could definitely just infiltrate the instance with a sufficient number of terminally online information warriors.
‘Confused’ is a strong word. But they’re overwhelmingly privileged Westerners who have transitioned from the Manichean millenarianism of suburban American evangelical Christianity to a mirror image. The same in every way except orientation.
Their endless parade of apocalyptic proclamations and screeds on how we deserve the coming collapse for the sin of existing are… quite familiar to anyone who used to be in evangelical communities.
I think it’s both. I think the base is state-sponsored propaganda, and it attracts some confused Westerners who want attention for being different.
They eagerly regurgitate state-sponsored propaganda, but I doubt any significant number of them are actually involved as anything but useful idiots.
Nah, I think Lemmy is treated as a training ground. Think about this - if an actual Russian or Chinese state propaganda agency approached Dessalines and offered to fund Lemmy development in exchange for getting their agents on the admin list, how quickly would he nut himself?
Do you really think a tankie could stay quiet for long about being such An Important Part Of The Vanguard?
Lmao. State secrets are a patriotic duty, comrade. But you are right, they could definitely just infiltrate the instance with a sufficient number of terminally online information warriors.
lemmy was already like that before reddit fuckover, probably worse because we only had lemmy.ml, so no, just flood twitter, and chatgpt is cheaper