Remember to donate to Ukraine so they can do it again!
Every coin helps!
Here’s your Reichsmark.
is that bandera? the nazi collaborator?
Ding. Ding.
Alternatively, you could blockade the tanker about to offload 300,000 tons of Russian diesel in Wilmington NC
That deal was all about lifting sanctions on Russia and trying to open back usual trade relations with them.
The amount of diesel agreed is laughable, I think it is few hours of US consumption. It won’t change prices at all. I think there might have been a private deal that benefits trump directly.
I’d actually put good money on this not happening. Russia isn’t really geared up to deliver oil like that they’re all about the pipelines.
Also whatever tankers they do send will have to get past if fleet of pissed off European fleets. Remember countries like Estonia went through some relatively severe economic hardship in order to sanction Russia, and then the United States comes along and does a deal with Russia to save themselves from a war that they started. Perhaps maintaining good relations with the United States is no longer worth it? I could totally see an oil tanker getting bordered.
It already happened. It docked last night, it is currently offloading the diesel in the Wilmington port
No it can’t of that’s got to be something else you couldn’t even get a ship from Russia to the US in that time. Do you have a source for that claim?
Germany elected Nazis all because the center liberal parties pinned their policies to an unpopular war and sanctions that destroyed their economy.
The only people who have benefited since the 2014 coup have been American corporations and American billionaires.
Piracy is all they have now.
I’m praying USA picks a fight with Ukraine…it will lose so badly actually, that it will finally collapse.
EDIT: USA will lose, not Ukraine.
I have a recent newborn and I keep thinking that when he’s like 15 or so and starting to learn about world politics he’s not going to believe me that the United States was want to major world player. He is going to think I am lying to him. It would be like your parents trying to tell you that Africa was once a United country and had the largest military on the planet. Looking at it now it wouldn’t be believable.
Do you mean for the US to invade Ukraine?
Oh yes please!
America is the only thing keeping Ukraine’s junta afloat. 🙄
Yeah Yanukovych was the last legit leader until the CIA poisoned him with dioxin… No wait…
What the actual fuck are you talking about?
Yes, Yanukovych was the last democratically elected leader before the Odessa Oblast, the Donbass and Crimea democratically seceded.
That’s what I’m talking about. Voting. Democracy.
Also call your rep and vote
My very blue reps support genocide. They’re pro Israel and pro Ukraine. I’m starting to see a pattern.
Ok specifically you get a pass on calling your rep
At least your rep is right 50% of the time it seems.
They’re not even right on 50% of domestic policy, but 100% aligned with fascist ethnostates proxies of Western imperialism.
Zelensky is a kapo stooge who will never outlive his usefulness to his Banderite handlers.
would loooove to see the admin stats for the lemmy verse
although having said that the lemmy verse is tiny
rare opportunity to refine blocklists
Russia is not using its own datacenters for fedi when they have unpaid western interns to do it for free.
They’re here. Not in the numbers reddit used to have, but they’re here. Occasionally we get a good one too. If you find yourself being argued with unreasonably, there’s a good chance that’s a russian troll. They have a scent.
I immediately went to check that “SaltyAmerican” guy that often gets in my “All” feed and latest post was week ago. 🗿
Nothing gives away a Russian troll posing as an American person like trying really hard to emphasize their “Americanness” - with those “as an American”/“we Americans”.
There’s another obnoxious troll that’s similar to yours that is so bad at it, I’m pretty sure he’s an american.
Who’s this guy? Sounds like a fun read
They had a lot of posts on “Late Stage Capitalism” community, and I suspect that community as a whole may probably be run by Russian trolls. Simply because of a contrast with other lefty communities - like you can have civil conversations in most places, and in there it’s just a perpetual hate boner machine, that just wants to get you upset and angry.
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/22444072
Definitely not American if they use the west unironically
They’ve taken over the Late Stage Capitalism community and have started banning comments that say voting against the GOP is a good thing.
They definitely have a playbook for infiltrating communities and taking them over. There’s a lot of subreddits on Reddit that are worker aligned but have questionable viewpoints.
can you give an example?
These are old and some of them on just their techniques, but it’s a good start.
- Astroturfing Information Megathread- revision 8 (old-reddit link)
- Link within previous thread and archived- “Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”
- Russia and the Menace of Unreality-How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
- Russia is using the power of ‘Black PR’ to destroy political reputations and spread disinformation in the West
- The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias
- What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain-Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.
- Political Misinformation Game: Harmony Square-it’s an actual game
- Max Fisher on How Silicon Valley Has Rewired Our Brains | Offline Podcast
- Amygdala hijack occurs when strong emotions “take over” the thinking part of your brain.
- Asch conformity experiments
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
- It’s My Right to Hold This Turd
- 5 studies about fact-checking you may have missed last month
- This Video Will Make You Angry
https://sh.itjust.works/post/33277983
Hope that helps!
I have written comments about this before, but the very simplified guide on, how to spot the russian and chinese propagandists on lemmy, is:
- Defending russian invasion in Ukraine, defending genocide of the chinese minorities, claiming Tianamen square massacre and the treatment of uighyr people are a hoax, being racist towards tibetans, doing the “I do not support [them], but…”
- Equating the USA = NATO, claiming everything any NATO country does is NATO as a whole doing it, blaming NATO for trying to attack Russia, saying NATO is trying to expand when border countries are joining voluntarily, blaming small border countries for aggression towards Russia
- Talking about “the West”, starting to speak about colonization times in unrelated discussions, trying to dismiss you by blaming you or you country for European colonization
- Trying to downplay and derail discussion on what Russia/China does, because the USA/“the West”/someone else has done bad things as well
- Writing longer and longer responses with multiple claims, often so you have to look into their sources/find reliable sources on the things by yourself, so you can argue against, in attempt to tire out out by making you answer each claim individually
- Using chinese state sponsored sources, supporting pro-russian/chinese politicians
- Blaming you for supporting genocide in Gaza, when you talk about some other genocide being bad, especially if it is related to Ukraine or China
- Dissing capitalism and saying China and/or Russia are true communists, marxists, etc., supporting the governments of China/Russia, either directly or hinting they are Better Options, arguing against calling China/Russia authoritarian regimes
You know, you found them, when your comments saying anything negative about Russia/China get downvoted, or someone starts arguing against you. Essentially there is no difference between the useful idiots and the bots and propagandists themselves. The people honestly identifying as tankies or defending tankies, are hanging in the metaphorical nazi bar without realizing it, and will not change their opinions, because they belive you are either bad, or brainwashed, so arguing does not get you anywhere.
The easiest way to deal with these, is to block the and move on. Arguing against will only give them more visibility, and make you tired and angry. If you feel pissed off, just explain these points as an answer, so others can consider with a different perspective, what they are reading, then block and move on.
Lmfao your list is just anyone who doesn’t deepthroat western propaganda on every aspect of their “enemies”
Do you believe western news and governments that they are not in the middle of genocide in the middle east?
Trying to downplay and derail discussion on what Russia/China does, because the USA/“the West”/someone else has done bad things as well
Blaming you for supporting genocide in Gaza
Nice try at derailing. I am against all genocide, everywhere. I do not defend nor deny European powers or the USA doing shit all around. I am talking against Russian and Chinese propaganda.
100% agree. If you’re explaining, you’re losing. Some of the replies to your list are hilarious.
Ironically proving my point… lmao. Though I should have added, “calling Ukraine/you/your country nazis”, and “trying to insult you/your country personally, being rude in attempt to get you enraged”. There are probably a few more I forgot.
like persimmons or bad bo?
Smug cloud
My truck is to just never read replies ever.
Then I can never argue with a bot!
If I don’t naturally come across the post again then I just forget it ever happened. Like old forums!
Can confirm- they stopped sending me checks a while ago
The real way to end wealth inequality: send cheques to everyone who thinks america deserves the slightest criticism.
i’m still getting them, putin even licks the stamps on the envelopes himself 💅
Putain would never lick a thing. He seals his envelopes by throwing them out a second story window
It wasn’t those kind of bots, more like the Google web crawlers.
Now do Israeli data centers.
Noo that’s antiseptic! Are you from hummus???
Mmm hummus
Pretty sure these are all in the US though
That’s antisemitic
😂😂
It’s anti Zionist
ah a bit of the old collective punishment of all jews my little jew hating friend?
Shouldn’t you be sucking Gavin Newsoms dick right now?
.ML users left in shambles.
You know, if they could still access lemmy in general.
Real. I joined it cuz it said it was FOSS focused and run by the creators of Lemmy which I thought was neat. Did not realize it was a tankie cesspool. I’m now banned from a good portion of it for “Nazi apologia” because I said calling Ukraine Nazis was Russian propaganda
Just jump instances. I might have my reservations about how the aversion to monetization means a lot instances are unstable or slow with no real incentives or even funding to improve it but there’s certainly something to be said for decentralization.
It’s just Ukraine, no “the” in front.
I have a confession:
When I joined, I thought ML was for Machine Learning.
Who? Traffic seems fine to me.
You may be new enough not to have encountered this yet but our instance has a well earned reputation of being Soviet boot lickers. Be careful on .ml meme subs and stuff, you’ll catch a permaban for saying anything pro Ukraine or in any way interpretable as anti Russia
Oh…they know exactly what .ml is
Joined 5 days ago
Jesus do you have a goldfish brain? We interact all the time lol.
I got locked out of my OG account.
Do we? You might be overestimating your impact as a person, or I maybe I only pay attention to the usernames of people who make a big positive difference on my flavor of the fediverse!
All the same, brand new accounts are fishy as fuck, especially with 0 posts. Try creating, not just critiquing!
Lmao. Try not voting for genocide next time!
The BothSidesBad comments have dropped by 70%, even in the thread about how much of a cunt Gavin Newsom is.
Oh yeah?! Well, both sides of Gavin Newsom is a cunt.
Based. Organize for the primaries, please for the love of whichever gods
Needs work but I appreciate the sentiment. Is the Yandex data center back up?
i can’t wait to not vote for gavin newsom
Yandex server back online confirmed.
i live in the us, cant wait for the midterms to be over so you guys go back into hibernation
See you around then
“You guys”? I’m not going anywhere…
You guys, as in the libs who only pay attention when it’s time to vote for more genocide and illegal wars of aggression.
Found the transphobic class traitor
Both are guilty of genocide and your leaders deserve Nuremberg trials.
The global north has classically been taking direct advantage of the global south. All those leaders should be on put on trial.
Ye
Oh it’s you. Bye.
You don’t seem to share my distaste for genocide. What gives? Some people are worth sacrificing for your own comfort at home?
Grow up
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Yeah that guy sucks LMAO
Grow up.
Both-sides including Nazis is bad. Right? Right? Right?
“When you sit with eleven Nazis, there are a dozen Nazis.”
Posts picture of several Nazis. Implies entire country is full of Nazis.
You do understand that Putin is a violent, fascist imperialist, don’t you?
You do realize that there are entire batallions of Nazis in Ukraine that kidnap civilians off the street and force them to die on the front line, right? Azov batallion?
You do realize that Russians are kidnapping Ukrainian children? That they are raping and murdering innocent civilians?
It is telling that posters like you condemn American and Ukrainian Nazis, but stay silent on Russian evils.
For the record, I think all Nazis/fascists/jmperialists should at least be in prison. And I mean ALL of them, not just from a specific country.
Tell me, how do personally view Putin?
My country isn’t sending bombs to Russian Nazi leaders? That’s why I’m critical of Ukraine? Are you 12?
Right? Every nation has a small minority of fascists. The fact that this small minority took power in a U.S backed coup is sorta the entire problem.
Is that why Ukrainians can’t vote, can’t even leave?
It couldn’t be anything else. Right?
Gavin newsom is a cunt and I’m from Cali.
Here’s proof:
Fucking shit state in a shithole country
I don’t think I would take that picture. It’s kinda weird that you can just pull that up from your gallery, as if it’s a side note. Do you often take candid shots of people having a rough time? Idk, that’s weird to me
Yes. I take pictures of despair to show fellow Americans when they tell me this is the greatest country in the world. Liberals gasp that I would take pictures like this! Well newsflash, the USA is filled with misery, you just want to be shown the beautiful Hollywood propaganda. Fuck that. Take pictures of what hell this place is, what it does to people, how it treats it’s vulnerable.
I can also post the picture of an elderly woman killed by a speeding driver. I like to pull that out when people tell me we can’t make our streets safer.
Did you ask that person for consent for a picture? Or is someone experiencing the lowest state of their life journey just free game for public exhibition?
Did you speak with them, drop them a slice of pizza, a water, or a sandwich? Or just take a picture like they’re a zoo animal to show people to win internet arguments?
Oh fuck off.
What??? HAHAHAHA
A .ml suddenly becomes anti direct action once the topic is actual humans in my community?
Your one of the liberals that screeched at this photograph weren’t you? DiD yOu gET cOnsEnt froM THe StaRVIng cHIld??? Reeeee
Let me guess you also demand consent from a gazelle hunted by a lion? Fucking pathetic
Do you live in a neighborhood with a chronic homeless population? Do you experience the pain and suffering if individuals who are unable to find shelter on a daily basis? Do you know what rotting flesh smells like from an untreated wound because the person is chronically high and passed out under a bridge?
Don’t fucking judge my photography, judge your government and society for allowing this shit to exist. I see the pain everyday, and having people like you brush it aside and virtue signal that this isn’t a problem is pure evil imo
Literally yes. I live within a few blocks of a shelter, and know the community decently well, as they’re part of my neighborhood.
I notice you declined to mention if you got that person a water, or some food, or just took a picture for your internet high horse.
Fuck off with you accusing me of virtue signaling while you use the unhoused as a fucking photoshoot for agitprop. You’re a misery tourist, and I will judge you for that.
Why the fuck would I get them a water or something to eat if they’re passed out? Plus it was 6:00 a.m… I’m not a misery tourist. I live in the fucking misery. Show proof that you actually live near a homeless shelter. You fucking liar
This is the USA. I don’t need consent to take pictures of people in public.
If they choose to sleep obviously in public I will happily take pictures, there are more discreet ways to sleep, no?
I asked them if they were ok, no response, I called 311 and they told me there’s nothing they can do even though I told them idk if he is alive 😀 insanity!
Zoo animals, if they decide to sleep blatantly in public spaces I will blatantly take pictures of them, ask them if they are ok and if I don’t get a response call 311 (who will tell me there is nothing they can do)
I think I got all your questions. Like I said I am documenting the SHITHOLE USA, JUST BECAUSE YOU DON’T SEE IT DOESN’T MEAN THE SUFFERING DOESN’T EXIST!
Thank you for the Palantir defense, very cool! You could interact with them like a human, and provide help instead of calling the cops to take them away because they’re sleeping in a place inconvenient when you walk by.
Note added, misery tourist. The world becomes a better place through action, not whining online while acting like the paparazzi for people in a bad place in life.
A sandwich won’t help someone who is suffering from a mental health and chronic self abuse. Keep virtue signaling while people continue to suffer in this SHITHOLE country. Let me guess, you also hate the idea of police getting recoded, or pedophiles getting recorded during their meet up? It’s my fucking right, you can cry about it like a little bitch 🖕
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There are 2 types of homeless individuals, the blatant ones that absolutely don’t gaf and ones that are more discreet and try to hide from public view. I didn’t call them zoo animals, the commenter before me did. We are all technically all animals though and the liberal government elites of California along with the liberals like the commenter I was responding to treat the homeless like zoo animals. Think about it: the liberals refuse to make any systematic change and need to continue the status quo and believe handing out food and needles will help the homeless. It’s pure evil at this point, wake up!
Oh, well hello “fellow American”. Thank you for your dedication to taking pictures to show how you’re “not a lib”, but rather a truly elevated person
You’re a 1 week old account
Lol so just because I’m a 2 week old account I don’t have the right to speak my mind or post pictures of the plight and suffering of my fellow Americans? Man you liberals really love shutting people down when they speak truth to power. You’re a evil fuck and you’re the problem!
Lmfao, get fucked “fellow American”
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Do you live in a neighborhood with a chronic homeless population? Do you experience the pain and suffering if individuals who are unable to find shelter on a daily basis? Do you know what rotting flesh smells like from an untreated wound because the person is chronically high and passed out under a bridge?
Don’t fucking judge my photography, judge your government and society for allowing this shit to exist. I see the pain everyday, and having people like you brush it aside and virtue signal that this isn’t a problem is pure evil imo
Coward
Edit: you can’t even remember whom you’re replying to with your slop. May as well delete this account, make another, and try harder. Lame as fuck flamer
Can’t answer the questions?
Stop attacking me because I’m tired of the liberal bs
Can’t answer the questions?
Stop attacking me because I’m tired of the liberal bs
Lol, you’re really bad at your job
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yes California has problems and suffering but honestly calling the USA a shithole country just outs you as a sheltered child who hasn’t really been anywhere. One day, go to a real shithole, maybe try living there for a year and then you’ll fucking beg to be homeless in San Diego or whatever.
Lmfao what country do you want me to go to so that I experience the shithole life? Btw let’s compare Apples to apples, I want the other SHITHOLE country to have similar GDP per capita as USA. Where is this SHITHOLE???
Я хуй знает кто такой этот ваш Гэвин, но по описанию он и правда похож на пизду.
For anyone passing by these comments, this user is the definition of some bot farm shit. The only goal is to make rifts among people, because a people divided is easier to control. Call the slop out
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Lol, I think I broke the bot. It’s replies aren’t even pertinent to our conversation anymore
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Oh shit the servers are back up!
We know Gavin is a cunt. We also know he’s less of a cunt than whoever the GOP is going to nominate. In a #1 Cunt War, JD vs Gavin is hardly a contest. Don’t nominate him and we won’t have to have this discussion in 2028.
If you nominate Gavin, you will lose again. How many neoliberal corporate ghouls do you need to see lose to a demented rapist pedophile before you try a winning course of action?
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If WHO nominates Gavin? WHO?!
THERE WILL BE A PRIMARY.
VOTE IN IT.
WHO
you
This sounds like a good time to hop over to .ml and see who the useful idiots are
-23% aggressive .ml tankies detected.
A bombing I can get behind. Also go URKRAIN!
Abligitory: release the y redacted Epstein files and hang all the traitors and pedos.
Is there a news story that prompted this or are we huffin copium
the strikes? yes
https://tech-insider.org/ukraine-strikes-yandex-third-data-center-4-days-2026/the 41%? not sure
the 41%?
not suremade up
If Ukraine is smart they’ll flatten as many Russian data centers as possible before the US midterm elections :D
At least we have elections. Ukrainians don’t. All opposition parties have been banned. All opposition media has been seized by the government. Men have to dress as old ladies in public so they don’t get kidnapped and pressganged ICE style.
Victory or death.
And why?
👀👇
Data centers are back up I see
I don’t need a data center to see capitalist greed and Weatern imperialism.
The RAND Corporation wrote a whitepaper that basically translates to “how to destroy Russia and take all their shit”.
The unfortunate Arctic thaw is opening up vast troves of natural resources and corporations and billionaires want them. This is why Trump has such a hardon for Canada and Greenland.
Do you ever wonder why all pipelines lead to Europe?
Why would Russia do that? /S
Holy fucking shit this bot is hilarious.
The capitalist and imperialist urge to get invaded by fascist Russia, lmao
Blackrock owns Ukraine now. Look it up. There’s no elections. Men can’t even leave. They’re literally neofeudal capitalist serfs who are tied to the land like animals.
Fuck off and let people vote.
Hopefully ukraine gets this one soon as well
I love when you guys have nothing else to say in the face of obvious truth, lmao.
Your name is a lie
🫡
You’ll get one comment out of me just so others see reasonable push back to your bad faith argument, afterwards I will no longer engage.
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All democratic countries I know, have provisions in their constitutions suspending democratic processes, centralizing power in the executive and conscripting their unfortunate male population in the event of an invasion of the country.
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It is a frankly ludicrous idea to suggest that this war is somehow ongoing because “we” want Russia’s natural resources.
Russia started this. Russia can end it any day by stopping the bombardment and withdrawing their troops from within the borders of Ukraine, at least to the status quo before its 2022 invasion.
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Bullshit. You just made that up. The clause in the constitution was added by the Svoboda led coup government after a “extra constitutional transition of power”. Everything is lies built on lies built on a U.S. bankrolled fascist coup. Fuck off and let people vote.
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The RAND Corporation wrote a whitepaper that basically translates to “how to fuck up Russia and take all their shit”. This isn’t any secret. The Arctic thaw is opening access to bast troves of previously untouched natural resources. The Northwest Passage is about to become a reality. This is why Trump wants Greenland and Denmark so desperately, and it seems to be working.
Denying the core principle of U.S. foreign policy for all of modern history isn’t convincing anyone.
And don’t get me started on Europe. “All pipelines lead to Rome” weird how that works.
The RAND Corporation wrote a whitepaper that basically translates to “how to fuck up Russia and take all their shit”.
Is there any way to help? I would not have anything against Russia, but while I’ve been alive, they have managed to invade multiple peaceful countries close to mine, so naturally everyone sees them as terrorists (a living definition to imperialism and fascism), to be terrorized
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You remember the agreements that NATO wouldn’t expand towards Russia’s borders?
liar, dumb, quiet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_opposition_to_NATO_enlargement
And you trust the Epstein billionaire pedophile rapist elites, lol?
where is the proof
lol you trust epstein to tell you that there is no proof
produce document or be silent, burden of proof is on you
Sorry to interrupt your conversation with yourself?
I don’t
Unsurprising
Why
Because you’re probably 12?
Of COURSE you’re from lemmy.ml LMAO
HAHA, wild stuff. LMAO!!
NATO should have been dismantled along with the Berlin Wall. It’s the Fourth Reich in the making, and kinda always was
6 Days old, .ml, 200 comments.
Don’t feed the trolls people.
I guess, you also think that USA border-genocidal blockade of Cuba is justified.
Not at all!
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Wait, you actually, unironically, without trolling, while being sober, in all seriousness, think democracies should hold elections while being invaded? Thank god my country has a law that makes that illegal (not Ukraine, don’t know about Ukraine, but in any case that is extremely idiotic thing to do, so good on them for not doing it)
Apparently Ukraine also has in their constitution that elections cannot be held while an invasion is in progress. So even if one were inclined to think like the idiot above they’re just following the rules that have already been established.
Zelensky has actually publicly said to Trump, that if the United States can guarantee 60 days of ceasefire (apparently that’s how long it would take to hold an election) than they can have an election. Knowing, that of course that the United States can’t guarantee anything when it comes to Russia, because Trump is Putins lil bitch.
It’s also worth noting that historically, populations are hesitant to replace governments during a time of occupation even if the administration had been relatively unpopular prior to the invasion. Not that I think he was unpopular. It is generally understood that during a war the government don’t have an awful lot to do with military decisions so changing the government is not productive.
The only reason Russia would agree to a ceasefire is if they thought the result would return a pro-russia politician, which is of course unlikely to happen.
Nah it’s to keep Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League
We were paying for Russia’s natural resources before they started the war. How is this situation any better for them or us?
The war started after we bankrolled the 2014 coup.
War only benefits a small handful of very powerful people, but Russia is sure doing better than America or Europe.
Ukrainians’ grandchildren’s grandchildren will still be paying off generational debt from predatory IMF and military loans. Blackrock has privatized all of Ukraine’s public institutions. They’re all neofeudal capitalist serfs now. They can’t vote. Men can’t even leave to escape this death cult. It’s definitely worse for them.
Benefited only hand full of people? What about Ukrainians themselves who see European living standards right next to them yet were stuck in ruzi systems? Do they have no say in this?
Ukraine is an independent country.
Too busy getting shot at
is it true, though?
Depends on what you call bots. Yandex is a Russian search service, so it needs to constantly crawl the web, just like Google or god forbid - DuckDuckGo. This traffic is 43% down, and not what Lemmy calls bots.
I don’t think DuckDuckGo does any crawling, it just searches Bing for you.
DuckDuckGo is just over 9000 Microsoft Edge running in background
Yes. It’s hard to prove because ruzi trolls are mostly real people with 24 phones proxied through real resisential/mobile ips. But, these ops still need datacenters to orchestrate everything etc. So the trolls are not destroyed just inconvenienced temporarily.
There will be very good research here in some time as it takes a lot of work to put this together as social networks do not have accessible research apis anymore. So to analyze content sentiment you need a lot of resources but there are other metrics like tracking resource utilization (like proxy pools) etc. With all that I think a good lab could produce good evidence if they wanted. The bigger problem is - why? We’re already well aware of ruzi troll networks.
but no one believed that it was russian bots all along back when they were wrecking havoc over every other election across Europe and US…
Correction: These were search engine crawlers and not social media commenting bots. You can read the original cloudflare post.
As an American, I assure you there was no foreign interference needed in making my neighbors awful people.
I hardly think that’s different for Europeans.
You seriously think it’s Russia “wreaking havoc” across the world? We may live in the same country, but a different planet.
Even most Americans admit that’s not true .
i was being sarcastic.
👍 Too early for sarcasm. 😭
cue the aristocrats joke
Something something… The aristocrats!
never gets old
He’s getting downvoted because he’s right.
He’s not wrong but is purposely missing all the instances of Russia and China selling vast amounts of weaponary as well for their proxy conflicts. So he’s misleading entirely with this ommission and and denial of it.
It must have sounded true to you when you typed it.
It’s an emotional truth. I get it.
I thought you were waiting? Why don’t you just wait until someone pulls your chain directly so you can swirl down the toilet.
Local liberal confronted with direct evidence of their nonsense bullshit resorts to ad hominem attacks.
Are the liberals in the room right now or just leftists who hate all imperialist countries? I know it’s hard to think with all that state run media in your head but I know you can do it.
Edit: So was your .ml accounts banned and this is you getting around a ban evasion?
Nah I work in bot detection. Russian troll farms are massive and working incredibly hard to destabilize the world. I’d go as far as to say it’s one of the biggest threats we face right now. It’s just destroying society for sake of destroying it and people like you still don’t believe it.
As an American, I assure you there was no foreign interference needed in making my neighbors awful people.
I assure you, their number 1 tactic is finding people on the fence of being evil scumbags and giving them a nice push in the wrong direction. And this isn’t a recent event. They have been doing this at least since Soviet Union got started.
Anyone who has ever wondered what the fuck happened to the brains of their parents, grandparents or even your own brain in the last 20 years. Most probably this.
Damn, if they can wield that much influence from another country, just imagine how much the US government is capable of shaping people’s views.
Did you know at least 6 Marvel movies have worked closely with American military?
Sure a random thread on reddit or lemmy is the real propaganda.
Edit : Unless of course it’s the make believe parliament game on /pol/.
Edit 2: It’s really getting hard to keep track of what’s propaganda and what’s not these days.
Hey, how many USSR movies worked with the military and China as well? Oh shit, I know what the answer will be already so don’t respond, it’s just a deflection guaranteed.
Born too late to witness the greatness of Sergei Bondarchuk, born too early to witness truly democratic artistic expression. Born just in time to witness Avengers Assemble™ episode 17 The Return of WonderIronThanos.
How many of those movies has the average American seen? The only one I can think of is Come and See, (and that’s more of an artistic movie about the horrors of war) and I’m aware of the Wolf Warrior movies but I haven’t actually seen them. Otherwise, I don’t think I could even name another, much less be influenced by them, and that’s more than most people could.
Or are you not claiming that Russian and Chinese movies have a comparable influence on Americans as American movies? In that case, it’s just a whataboutism, not relevant to the discussion. We’re talking about who has influence over Americans.
Boy, you purposely are being obtuse. The propaganda movies are as influential in their respective countries as the USA is in the USA. It’s been the history of cinema for a country to work with cinema to make pro-military propaganda so no one country is innocent of doing or have done this. Ukraine does it and I show more support for them fighting an imperialist invader who made arguments later for their invasion. The thing people like you don’t seem to get, I don’t like the USA either, or the permanent UN Security Council members for that fact. No country is innocent of criticism how it has handled itself in the past and presently. If you think anyone is innocent, I bid you farewell and go back to the hole you crawled out of.
Are these “Russians” in the room with you right now? What kind of things do they tell you to do? Do you feel like you’re going to act on these voices’ commands?
No not right now because most of their fucking bot farms are on fire. You seem to be up somehow, but I can help with that.
Are you threatening to bomb that guy? What the fuck?
Seems like not all bots got shutdown huh. Even got enough bandwidth credits for a little gif? How cute.
They were already angry and bigoted. The troll farms were for directing and amplify that bigotry.
Do you think the troll farms had a larger impact than Facebook’s own algorithm, which was intentionally designed to fuel outrage and bigotry because that increased user time on the platform?
I think they were in cohorts with each other. The social media sites could have shut all that down overnight, but didn’t. They’re all part of the Epstein class.
Russia = Epstein Class now? Bruuuuh.
You misspelled ISRAEL.
All the wealthy are engaged in some form of rape and likely child rape. Just because they didn’t go through Epstein doesn’t mean they’re innocent. If it were just Epstein then all human of trafficking would have stopped.
And you think Russia is the center of the world’s wealth? They’ve got the same GDP as South Korea.
This must all be very confusing for you. I understand.
All the same.
Russia is arming Hezbolah, dumbass.
The world must be a confusing place for you.
So shitposting $30k on Facebook “hacked” the 2016 election? Come on. That’s tears in the rain of what very domestic bigot amplifiers spent, and half of it was Bernie stuff.
Stop looking for foreign boogiemen for problems capitalism caused.
Why not both? Russian strategy is well known and publicly available: amplify conflict subjects and spread maximum lies.
The original issue might be legit but it’s distorted and amplified to the point where it can no longer be solved for even with best intent. It really works.
It’s all interconnected. Domestic capitalists? Foreign capitalists? They’re all the same because they don’t view themselves as nations of any nation. They’re allegiance is only to themselves and use each other as opportunities. They can only trust each other when they have backmail on each other, which is the real main purpose of Epstein’s parties are for.
Zuck allowing foreign propaganda on his platform is not because he believes in Putin’s cause, but because he might want a favor from Putin or Russia in the future. To him, it’s a capitalist investment.
There’s plenty of examples in history of opportunists tweaking the news to rile up bigotry for a profit. History never stopped happening.
You just cited a Mossad/CIA asset as somehow “Russian”.
What happened to you? 😭
Also, I called them the Epstein class. Epstein might have been involved, but there’s probably hundreds or thousands of spooks would are doing shit. Epstein himself stands apart because he was sloppy.
Spies and spooks don’t do it out of a sense of loyalty or professionalism. They like doing it. Even if Mossad or the CIA were completely aligned against Russia, that doesn’t stop their assets from fucking around.
The Epstein Files showed that Epstein was trying to destroy Trump at this point. He was found to have been texting his bought Virgin Islands rep during the Cohen testimony to help attack Trump.
This only shows he was trying to help Putin AGAINST Trump, and only through Norway because he DID NOT have contacts in Russia.
Norway is indicted here, not Russia. Seems their Princess was a former child sex slave who still adores Epstein.
Did you read past the headlines?
Lemmy.ml has been awfully quiet…
No we haven’t.
Why are you following my profile around weirdo
I saw two of your comments in two different threads and they were both dumb as hell, sue me.
You did that exact same thing like a couple hours ago to me, lmao.
never been there until now
I actually use Yandex for torrents lol.
Edit: Yandex also has the best photo search of any search engine.
Not for long 🚀
It was better years ago.
Steal all you can
.ML traffic:
Alright, this is getting unfunny now
most likely resulting in slower internet services or complete disruption for the average Russian. Unfortunately, the ordinary Russian wouldn’t be able to use high-speed satellite internet as a backup, as Starlink does not work in Russia,
What the fuck is he talking about. Yandex is not an ISP, it doesnt provide any internet access services to anyone. Its first and foremost a search engine, like google (the crawlers are most likely responsible for most of outgoing traffic, tagged as bot or otherwise), with crapload of affiliated services, like google, including their own payment system, like google, which is causing a lot of pain rn to those who chose to keep all of their savings in it, and their own cloud service, like google, which took down quite a lot of other sites with it, along with disruptions to TV’s (yandex OS is running on nearly half of them, like android) as well as, unlike google, taxi and food delivery services that they have near-monopoly on, so those effectively halted in the entire country. But, again, unlike google, they dont offer FTTH, residential or commerical internet access, or anything even remotely like that. What in the fuck’s sake satellite internet and starlink has to do with it, idk, thats just plain absolute worst journalism, just writing words without even a pinch of research.
And no, despite of how funny it would’ve been, there isnt actually any report of reduced troll activity ofher than some weird chart some german politician pulled out of their ass without referencing any source. You can even go to xitter, type “яндекс” into search and find loads of actual Russians mass ratioing those few that chose to defend yandex, as well as their reps themselves trying to calm everyone down. If anything, Russian activity on foreign resources only increased because domestic resources are down.
it doesnt provide any internet access services to anyone
They started an MVNO this year tho https://yandex.ru/company/news/28-08-2026-01 And it has AI and number classification baked in? So while not being owned fully by yandex, mobile operator’s features relies on data centers not burning.
Don’t get in between a liberal and their bullshit feel good propaganda. You’re likely to lose a finger!
Poor guy has to try and make up for the lost Russian bots :(
Oh what a handy buttonThank you for ridding me of you, lmao.
