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The crazy part is, this isn't "all of the sudden". It's just another crazy talking point people forgot about from his last term.
And Biden was also annexing regions in the arctic.
Boring, kooky, and now repetitive. I've scratched my head all day trying to make sense of your many, many posts on this page, and all I've got is a fresh bald spot.
Time for a time out.
Y’all act like this is solely a Trump thing, but the US was expanding and annexing territory in the arctic during the Biden admin, while getting all of their “allies” to expend all of their military assets & ammunition reserves on a proxy war and a genocide.
It would be unwise to assume this is another crackpot Trump scheme, and not something the MIC & intelligence agencies have been preparing for years.
Reported for misinformation. Usually I think the propagandists can just be dealt with by disagreeing in the comments and letting people figure out who is and isn't full of shit, but this has crossed into the territory of being pure annoying noise.
With @surph_ninja's follow-up links, it's not quite 'misinformation'. More like, bonkers extrapolation, based on slivers of cherry-picked truth. The nuttiness exposes itself.
Claiming that CIRES thing amounts to "the US was expanding and annexing territory in the arctic during the Biden admin"? Thinking a propaganda quote from 2023 shows "all [war allies'] military assets & ammunition reserves" are being depleted?
Nah, I'll let it stand. When gullible people show how they swallow whatever they swallow and regurgitate, it's educational (just not in the way @surph_ninja thinks).
Sounds good to me. The comment itself isn't all that bad. I think, as you said, it's extrapolating from something objectively true to leap to an endpoint that's totally nuts.
A lot of my reaction was from the combination of this particular conclusion being totally out there, and it being in service of a particular type of pro-Russian-viewpoint talking point, and the pattern of that type of thing being a very clear and consistent pattern from this user in the past. But I do agree with you. Usually, it's better to just let people talk. It's educational.
It's not good. We let these people just throw shit at the wall constantly and no one has the time or ability to sort through it all. With plain text looking exactly the same no matter the argument the uninterested get snookered into thinking there might actually be a valid counter argument. You were right the first time. This shit is all noise drowning out the message and making people tune out.
Yeah. I'm not aware of a good solution. I don't want to let every comments section have random "and THAT's why NATO is terrible and China/Russia are by far the lesser evil in geopolitics as everyone knows" comments interjected into it unchallenged. I don't want every comments section to get taken over by extensive arguments about who is and isn't a Russian propagandist. And I don't want every comments section to be picked through by some kind of arbiter of who are the "allowed" comments, so that anyone who's provisionally identified as propaganda gets removed never to be seen again. Even if there were someone who had time to do that, which there isn't, that's not going to wind up being implemented perfectly if that were the system.
My MO is to call out the very severe propaganda when I see it, talk about how I see it as a problem and why, without getting drawn into the endless bickering into which the propaganda accounts inevitably like to draw anyone who responds to them. It doesn't seem like an ideal solution, but it's the best reaction I can see.
I do think it's fair to ban the ones that are just laughably obvious, I guess, for the sake of all of our sanity, since they're clearly bringing nothing anyone wants to the table. At the same time, all that is going to do is set a higher bar, which I'm sure they will be able to clear. And also, it sets a precedent for moderators aggressively policing comments sections and kicking out the "wrong" people, which the propaganda accounts are also able to manipulate to their advantage when that becomes the norm. That's a whole other conversation. That's why I mostly don't go on lemmy.world, this community being one of a few rare and sensible exceptions.
I've started just blocking them on the off chance they are powered by AI. I'll give one to two comments to see if they will attempt good faith but if there is no sign they are capable I don't want to be a part of their disinformation strategy ever again.
I think the answer is to let people self identify. Something like a profile and then allowing users(and instances) to sort or filter incomplete profiles and keywords/phrases. Sure you can get an AI to create unique generic profiles but the second you look at them you'll be able to decipher the quality of their content and distinguish immediately.
Of course this could lead to more insular communities but I'm actually for that. I am for like minded people finding each other and organizing. In this way these people can juice each other up to maybe take action without some infiltrator coming in and difusing the momentum.