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.
TBF if I had 200+ replies in my inbox over the span of a few hours I'd consider it coordinated harrassment.
This thread just blew up tbh, unlike anything I've seen here. Mostly, our news bulletin megathread sometimes breaks 1000 comments, when there's big news happening. Most other threads never hit 500. This one seems like it was bait to draw in lib commenters from the wider lemmyverse after federation and it worked. The user in question came in pretty antagonistically and is replying to all the replies they got, so yeah it's probably a lot of replies to deal with but they also brought it on themself and it wasn't anything coordinated. I myself have been engaging with this person, but just the same way I would have argued with anybody else here that I disagreed with over the last 3ish years.
I checked their profile and they've been machinegun posting
comebacks for hours
Most sane liberal
Are we taking bets on when he cracks? or if he'll go full fash, regular crazy, or see the light and turn tankie?
Then you probably shouldn't post a few dozen comments in this thread here on our home instance. Avoiding doing that should keep your inbox clean.
They've posted dozens in like 2 or 3 threads, not just here
"Oh fuck people actually reply to you"