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How is OP not banned? 18k posts which exclusively seem to be news, 5 comments, it's literally a propaganda bot, what the fuck!
OP actually has hundreds (thousands?) of comments over the past few years, but all but the most recent are listed as deleted by creator. I won't speculate as to the reason for this, but just note that their current comment count doesn't reflect their historical contributions.
I'll also just leave this quote from one of the comment chains they've recently commented on:
I don’t personally keep track, but it seems some others do feel they make valuable contributions. I for one don't want to see anyone too quick to torch the relative few individuals putting content on Lemmy.
Thanks for this comment. News about Iran seems to bring out extreme personalities lately it seems like.
I can't fathom how, after the disgrace that western media has proven to be during the "Israeli" genocide of Palestinians, posting unending links to western mass-media can be considered a positive and not a tool of brainwashing.
Propaganda bot for posting The Guardian? You're ok?
18k news posts, most of them from genocide-complicit western Zionist media
OK then be this way
Huh?
You're not wrong about the Guardian but also like... the Iranian government is fucked. Yes, this is probably propaganda to manufacture consent, but that doesn't mean it's not also a real story of real students fighting a real struggle. It's a tough line to walk.
Not a tough line to walk, really. I see no constant stream of news on Lemmy about Qatar being an apartheid state with 80% of migrants without rights, or Saudi Arabia's similar policy. No constant stream of posts about mass incarceration of black people in the US, of Nazis roaming the streets of Madrid and Paris...
Deciding what news to publish is itself extremely political, and focusing on atrocity propaganda in Iran, a heavily sanctioned country against which there's an ongoing US military buildup on the verge of invasion, is willing and a form of atrocity propaganda. It's designed specifically to make progressive people less critical of the upcoming strikes, and judging by the number of upvotes these posts get, it's working.
5 years ago there wasn't this constant stream of anti-Iranian propaganda, it was Venezuela, and we've seen the results. Learning to distinguish the workings of propaganda is critical to any progressive, and it allows us both to be more resistant to propaganda and to use it better (for example by relentlessly posting about Palestine or the ICE, we can similarly engage in what I consider good atrocity propaganda).