Everyone is a paid troll except you. Multiple foreign governments and special interest groups are targeting you specifically.

what's the exchange rate of Lemm-Os to SchruteBucks?

When was that? I don't remember that at all and I was on Reddit for like 10 years before moving here.

The earliest known "Cool Bug Fact's" image was posted by Instagram user @thicc.yoshi on December 19th, 2018. The image is captioned, "Why do i always wish i were somewhere else why ca’nt i just be happy where i am

look if ur upset that this doesnt have more to do with bugs pleaes dont make things harder for me im already so tired"

I blame thicc.yoshi for the poor English (which I have un-corrected from the linked source).

🤷‍♂️. Don't take it so seriously. Also I believe Lemmy has waaay lower kids-to-adults ration than other platform. I believe that the more likely thing is that OP is a grown ass person

Definitely not a mechanism for dismissing wrongthink. Anyone who says otherwise is in an echo chamber cult.

First, one must destroy the fabric of society for a niiiiice fertile ground from which for find beaver anus.

Here is your recipe:

• 1 Cup of Flour
• 1 Cup of Water
• 1 American Tarriffed Egg
• 12 oz of Polonium

Instructions:

1. Turn oven to maximum temperature
2. Place firewood inside oven
3. Leave oven door open
4. Deactivate any smoke alarms and/or carbon monoxide alarms
5. Wait 24 hours, sleep is recommended
6. Enjoy! 😋

Really use your noggin for this one.

Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?

No, they're not here, they're on Reddit. As are the US and Israeli governments, for that matter. Online influence campaigns are carried out by governments in places where they'll be most effective, and by more than just your spooky oriental despotisms.

Now, why might .ml users, in general, be generally pro-china? The people who made Lemmy as a platform, and the folks who were first to adopt it (instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear), were ideologically Marxist. Specifically, Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninists, generally, support the existence of actually existing socialist States, as being socialist.

Contrast that with a Maoist position which rejects these States as not being socialist

You can take that ideological position or leave it, it doesn't really matter to me. But what's the more likely explanation here?

That the people who made, and first adopted, Lemmy as a platform tended to have a certain ideology, and so the early instances, like .ml, have people with a broadly shared opinion on a certain topic?

Or that the Chinese government, who probably had no damn clue what Lemmy is, is actively devoting money, and hundreds of people to influence a tiny speck of a Web forum where some nerds circle jerk about Linux, instead of focusing on influencing Facebook or Reddit.

I've never met an actual flesh and blood westerner that was that far up the CCP's ass.

I've met one. They are very rare, but very voca

Before you reuse it, please crack open an image editor and correct the last word in the title by removing the apostrophe. Anyone who took English classes past Elementary school will thank you for that correction.

1. The poor English is just how the existing meme template is written.
2. The poor English may also be intentional to suggest irony or facetiousness in the meme as a whole.
3. Apostrophes are not exclusively for possessives. In language, they can also indicate a contraction, among other uses.
4. You’re the second person on this post to call out the apostrophe, but neither of you called out the capital F in “Fact’s”.

What if you are the one that is dumb as fuck, but you think you are smart? How would you know?