It’s already a hexbear fest in here. There is zero point posting anything about China or Russia - every comment is trounced on by hexbears.

Yes yes, if I didn’t want your opinion I should have stayed on Reddit.

Yes, yes, you got here first.

Yes, yes, I’m a brainwashed liberal.

Yes, yes, you’re actually one of the oldest Lemmy communities but you’ve only recently started federating.

Yes, yes, you’re seeing the light and can see through the western media’s bias and the rest of us are just mindless sheep.

Yes, yes, China is great, Russia is fantastic, Ukraine should pursue for peace and roll over.

Yes, yes, you never allowed downvoting so you’re used to just comment and that’s why there’s so many hexbears in here. And you’re definitely not Russian or CCP farmed trolls.

Yes, yes, all those things are true.

I’m sure I’m missing a few, but I’m pretty close to a hexbear “Bingo!” I think.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    And you’re definitely not Russian or CCP farmed trolls.

    "Anyone who disagrees with me on the internet is either a paid foreign agent or a bot"

    I just feel sorry for the people who truly believe this. The internet has completely destroyed their brains.

    No joke, I genuinely feel bad for them.

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Really funny to imagine a bunch of people being paid to spread propaganda but instead they all just hang out together an obscure shitposting forum for three years until one day the boss walks in, pissed af, like, "What the hell is 'Hexbear?'" and we're all like side-eye-1

      "Uhh uhh well see we were supposed to be federated ages ago but I guess the IT ticket got lost somehow, we didn't switch over to Twitter or Reddit or Facebook because nobody explicitly told us we were supposed to" and just all the BS excuses for why we've been wasting time instead of doing our jobs

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Look, it was already like this when I got here, okay? And no one told me about the owl! Seriously, do you even know about the owl? It's pissing and farding everywhere! This is not the professional PsyOp environment I was promised, and you will be hearing from my lawyer. Sheesh. Good day, Sir/Mam!

        • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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          1 year ago

          "Look, my job is to post, and if you check my account, I've been meeting every single quota. If people haven't been seeing them, I mean, it's not my job to look at engagement stats and stuff and decide what we're supposed to do."

          "And you didn't think it was weird that nobody else was on the site?"

          "I mean, sometimes somebody would wander in. Tbh I kinda thought the point was to establish a post history we could point to in case people accused us of being propagandists."

          "The reason your accounts don't look like propagandist accounts is that you haven't been doing your FUCKING JOBS!"

          • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Alright fine, but we seriously need to talk about the owl.

            I signed up here because I'm a true patriot, and I show up to the office only to find this stanky avian flapping around like nobodies business? I thought this was America!

            I did not get knee-deep in student loans for this.

      • Melonius [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Still waiting on product to federate us, otherwise no blockers on operation prop farm

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Hi there fellow internet users, I am definitely not a chatbot trained on the worst NYT articles ever, I am a human just like you

        Would you like to enjoy a bicycle ride and a frozen dairy product ride ride ride you frozen would you like enjoy enjoy to users

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        There's a non-zero chance some accounts are sockpuppets, both on our side and theirs. The US has some well documents cases of using sockpuppets over the years, plus there's stuff like NAFO. I don't recall if we've got any concrete evidence that NAFO is a sockpuppet project because I don't hate myself enough to pay attention but I vaguely remember them having something going on that suggested it was being at least partially directed by some government.

        But regardless, it is funny that so many anglophones readily dismiss anyone they don't like as a bot, but I've never seen one consider that their own governments are also using sockpuppet operations to influence opinions. Especially after that law that said the US can't conduct propaganda operations against it's own citizenry was repealed a while back.

        And I guess there's also all kinds of non-state actors who could get in the game, too. Like I'm actually part of a really complex ARG being run by an italian shaved ice booth in Baton Rouge. It's not going to pay off until 2025 but y'all are going to love it.

    • huf [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      i bet china pays us to post AND pays them to read it

      and yet they have the temerity to call us shills!