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.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What happened to the amber bot?

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years 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

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hexbear codebase merging back into Lemmy broke it :(

(Before federation)

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years 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

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years 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.