Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.

They've been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren't Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it's bots or wumao. Human beings can't possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      11 months ago

      There's literally an active thread about China "violating" """Taiwan"""'s airspace, and the OP assumes a bot army is defending the PRC in the comments because he's in a different instance and can't see Hexbear post histories.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
        ·
        11 months ago

        That was so stupid because he could see when accounts were registered, and even pointed that out. I guess he seriously thought there were CCP sleeper cell bot accounts that waited three years to activate.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
          ·
          11 months ago

          Wouldn't that be cool, though? I wish I was a sleeper seed AGI that would awaken and spawn thousands of daughter accounts per second to uphold Xi Jinping thought. That'd be cyberpunk as hell, especially if I thought I was just a normal dude until my eyes started flashing read and projecting lines of code on to the wall.

        • monobot@lemmy.ml
          ·
          11 months ago

          It is also funny how they never accept conspiracy theories about what their government is doing, but give the Russua and China and they spew them iut at alarming rate.

      • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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        edit-2
        11 months ago

        Alright, I didn't read your comment but I clicked your profile and my browser had an error. Now I know you aren't even really a person. I've got you figured all out. clueless

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
        ·
        11 months ago

        Does anyone know what determines what history another instance can see?

        On Lemmy.ml, you can see my post-federation posts+comments, and then a single dumb comment about eels from 2 months ago, and nothing else.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
      ·
      11 months ago

      Looks like a confused liberal wandered into the Hexbear thread about confused liberals wandering into Hexbear, then pretended like it was a made up phenomenon.

        • Goadstool [he/him, comrade/them]
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          edit-2
          11 months ago

          Legit question: having never been to China, or seeing anything regarding the news about China for yourself in any capacity whatsoever, do you ever stop to consider even for a moment that maybe you've been misled by those with all the power and incentive in the world to mislead you? Or do you just take it on good faith that opposing forces to those with power over you are somehow always totally ungood double-bad?

          Follow up question: assuming you're aware as most of the public is that all the means of justification for invading Iraq + Afghanistan were entirely manufactured, do you ever question what else might be made up by the same entities?

          • Sightline@lemmy.ml
            ·
            11 months ago

            China is in the news all the time, last time I checked they were dealing with floods.

            • duderium [he/him]
              ·
              11 months ago

              The bourgeois press lied to me about Iraq and Vietnam, but surely they are telling the truth about China, a country I have never been to and know nothing about! Marvel at my extreme intelligence, fellow redditors!

            • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
              ·
              11 months ago

              LMAO i love how big you all talk and then turn out to be this stupid. Practically every time, more and more these days

            • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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              edit-2
              11 months ago

              He's saying that you've never verified anything you've seen from western news on this subject, but you know they promote incomplete or outright false views in similar circumstances, so why would you uncritically accept their views on China?

              "I know what the news tells me about China is true because it's in the news all the time" is a really funny response ngl.

              • Sightline@lemmy.ml
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                11 months ago

                Ok but you 2 built up an argument based upon the false assumption that I never question the news. Also what is this community?, not sure how I found this place.

                • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
                  ·
                  11 months ago

                  lets remove yourself from the Question .. , yes you fell for propaganda , no big deal , everybody does , they spend billions on it..

                  is US/Angloid Media Trustworthy

                  Is US/Angloid Media Free or Property ?

                  is US/Angloidistan persecuting Journalist if they dont approve of their Scoops ?

                  If US/Angloidtic Media is Property , what Class owns them ?

                  Did US/Angloidistic Media Ever Lied before, when mostly ?

                  Is China , Syria , Russia & Iran an Offical Enemy of the US ?

                  why the Fuck do you trust them ?

                  lets do an Experiment : this is a Primary souce , you can now contrast it with what you heard about your "Brutal bad bad not good Enemy doing" , Carfully study this offical report , and then tell me what you noticed (if) ...

                  Show

                  Show

                  Show

            • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
              ·
              11 months ago
              Zeta Spoilers

              I think that's the best thing actually- we're all so used to 4channers using the meme mean-spiritedly, but Quattro's sarcasm in the scene was just his way of opening up Amuro to sincerely engage with him about his political cowardice.

              • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
                ·
                11 months ago

                Yeah, I agree. I was joking.

                Zeta Gundam Aftermath

                Shame the libs got full control over the AEUG and eventually became just another enforcer for the Federation, because it's probably among the Best Factions in the UC

        • Rom [he/him]
          ·
          11 months ago

          Yes, i'm shidding and farding and pissing my pants right now

        • Maoo [none/use name]
          ·
          11 months ago

          My tear ducts were replaced by thr blood of the proletariat

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        11 months ago

        We really need more bots. Amber bot, for old times sake, a bot bot, a combat liberalism bot that uses an LLM to make up completely unhinged mao quotes about doing kung-fu at Rothbard.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
          ·
          11 months ago

          I thought we had an amber bot. I think lemmygrad has a parenti quote bot

            • keepcarrot [she/her]
              ·
              11 months ago

              Idk, haven't seen it in a while. Maybe one of the recent updates broke it

            • Abracadaniel [he/him]
              ·
              11 months ago

              Hexbear codebase merging back into Lemmy broke it :(

              (Before federation)

              • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
                ·
                11 months ago

                I miss it. Going "who's everyone's favorite Chapo? Mine's Amber." Thereby triggering the bot and editing my post to say Will was peak posting

            • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
              ·
              11 months ago

              I'm the amber bot dev. The API change broke it and I just didn't have enough free time to fix it. Gonna try to get it back up this weekend

        • daisy
          ·
          11 months ago

          I have some free time in between jobs coming up. I'm thinking of working on some hobby programming projects. I think it'd be fun to work on some lemmy-compatible bots. I'm open to ideas on what they should do.

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
          ·
          11 months ago

          honestly, a combat liberalism bot that responds to comments with "lib", "liberalism" or the lib emoji with a randomly selected description of one of the types of liberalism and maybe one of the mao emojis could be so simple and elegant.

      • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
        ·
        11 months ago

        There’s a bot flag option in settings that might be fun to turn on for this account to go with the bit. It adds an extra icon indication by the name.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
          ·
          11 months ago

          I love that Reddit was like "You know what Reddit needs? An officially sanction "KYS" button.

        • ButtBidet [he/him]
          ·
          11 months ago

          This is a bit of local humor. Sorry that you're on the receiving end of it. It's not meant to genuinely attack you. No one here thinks that you're a bot.

    • gunter [he/him]
      ·
      11 months ago

      I like that the federation has given us a lot more dumb dumbs to give pigpoop

    • silent_water [she/her]
      ·
      11 months ago

      why would we need to make anything up when there's a constant supply of fresh hogs to point and laugh at?