• @[email protected]
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    166 hours ago

    And other lies you tell yourself.

    I’ve never met a Palestinian supporter that isn’t also a Ukrainian supporter.

      • @[email protected]
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        64 hours ago

        I signed up to Lemmy without knowing much about instances, can’t remember exactly why I picked lemmy.ml but it wasn’t politics.

        Is this really a generalisation people have? Should I move…?

        • The Quuuuuill
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          94 hours ago

          your admins also run lemmygrad. only you can decide if you should leave. personally, i like beehaw, slrpnk, dbzero, and blahaj. one important aspect to understand about the fediverse is that your instance is part of the identity you present to others

          • @acid_falcon
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            Hey I’ve been looking for someone to ask, and you seem to know, is Lemmy.world cool?

            • ArxCyberwolf
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              Probably best to use a smaller instance instead of .world. The less centralized Lemmy is, the better.

              • @acid_falcon
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                Ugh. Yeah I’ve heard that "it isn’t the best. It was the easiest to sign up for when the reddit exodus happened. I’m anti Israel and pro Ukraine and I’m always busy with real life/my own hobbies. I just don’t have the bandwidth for finding the best instance. C

        • @madkins
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          Personally, I’m fine with seeing differing opinions. On the political side, they get a bit obsessed with dunking and all these in-group memes for my tastes.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 hours ago

        Ah, see I realized they were either all bad faith actors, bots, or idiots ages ago and don’t federate with them.

    • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
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      There are 20 Israel stories to every 1 Ukraine story on Lemmy.

      Regardless of your opinion on the matter, this platform is being heavily astroturfed, and so are many other “liberal” platforms. It’s actually way worse here than on Reddit.

      • @TankovayaDiviziya
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        It’s actually way worse here than on Reddit.

        Because after r/ChapoTraphouse was kicked out from Reddit for inciting violence, the tankies moved to create lemmy.ml.

      • @[email protected]
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        Probably something to do with my country financing the underdog in one of these fights and the war criminals in the other.

        Do yourself a favor block grad and ml it cleans up a lot of bad faith arguments.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 hours ago

        Of course there are, and I probably post 3 of the 20.

        Other than the alt-right, you’re not going to find any support for Russia in the West.

        Why would we need to raise awareness and keep posting about Ukraine to the same level as Palestine?

        • socsa
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          Bruh I literally got banned from .ml twice just for mentioning the fact that Russia shot down a civilian airliner in Ukraine. You are completely delusional if you don’t see that a significant portion of these idiots are up Putin’s ass.

        • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
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          Why do you think it’s your job to do so? That’s the literal definition of astroturfing.

          • @[email protected]
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            You absolute little liar.

            the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the public.

            I am a real person, with an ethical obligation to stand up against genocide. There is no deception, I am a member of the public, and what I am doing is called activism (or slacktivism for the pessimists in the world).

            • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
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              So, you admit that you are flooding this platform to deliberately present one story as more dominant in the news cycle than others in order to misrepresent its relevancy to current events?

              You can argue definitions and semantics all day, but that is what you’re doing - and it’s dishonest at best.

      • The Quuuuuill
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        we’re also numb to what’s happening in ukraine. people got tired around when it hit the one year mark

    • Cethin
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      I haven’t met any in real life as far as I’m aware, but I’ve seen plenty on here.

    • @Maggoty
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      I think they’re talking about the people on TV talking about it, not the protestors themselves.