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[+] finitebanjo@piefed.world 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] Maiq@piefed.social 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Or Taiwanese bots? I could see Chinese bots based in Taiwan or using Taiwanese exit nodes sure. Why would the Taiwanese want to weaken the country partnerships they made that keeps their sovereignty from Chinese control?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

I think you hit the nail on the head, they're using them as nodes.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Europe might not want to sacrifice their economy and get another round of austerity to appease American banks.

Taiwan might not want to be used like cannon fodder in pursuit of America's goal of weakening China.

Of course the oligarchs in both those places would be quite happy with those outcomes so their botfarms probably aren't supporting the message.

[+] finitebanjo@piefed.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like Cuba, all Iran did was overthrow the US-imposed dictator, and stop letting America take their resources/labor, and America has never forgiven them.

Weakening China by having America spend every last drop of your people's lives, until America feels like its no longer in its interests and doesn't give you a seat at the peace table isn't in the interests of the people of Taiwan.

Status quo of "reunification, sure, eventually, definitly maybe next century🙃" is infinity better for the actual people.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Na, If Taiwan loses the oligarchs lose hard in that specific country, they have a state sponsored monopoly on silicon China would F things up hard, I'm afraid in this case no conspiracy can even close to be found, that JFK thing though you should look into that again.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's why I said the oligarchs would be happy to fight China to the last drop of the working class's blood.

That's not a conspiracy, you can find unhinged Taiwan-based billionaires crying for more rifle and training so their fellow Taiwanese can be sacrificed to protect their own control.

About the JFK thing, whether Oswald was a CIA asset acting on Allen Dulles's orders, or merely was a CIA asset who killed the guy Dulles thought was insufficiently anticommunist and betrayed America by not sending the military in after Bay Of Pigs by coincidence is barely a conspiracy.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

It's also missing the American bots wanting that

[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

They forgot to put "Eastern" before European.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

The onion is missing the opportunity to make an onion article about a politician promising to bring the bot industry to America.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We can't entirely blame them for a civil war we never finished.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For real.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The best propaganda doesn't try to create a divide, it leverages the conflicts that already exist.

Americans have watched the conservatives openly embrace not only fascists, but actual Nazis.

Sure, you can say those people would stayed under their rocks without the push but they're out in the open now and the fact the bots got them to admit it doesn't stop that from having happened.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Well spoken, and I agree.

The division will always be there but it takes a special kind of sociopath and a government not working for the people to allow othering or scapegoating to take place.

It really is psychological warfare. Instead of our government protecting us it says, "hold my beer."

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You are a bot, you are a bot, everyone is a bot! If the Internet could be treated like a society, it would be the lowest trust society in existence.

But having said that, if the US doesn't want to be told to fight against its tyrants who repeatedly violate their constitution, it shouldn't have made its entire patriotic identity about fighting tyrants and honoring its constitution. If the US didn't want people from outside the US to tell them to "fight amongst themselves" then they shouldn't act like a multiple personality bipolar with one personality fighting with itself and the other bending the knee to make sure to always offer a degree of submissive complacency to the abusive personality.

Hostile nations are pushing these narratives, but let's not act like they don't have any ground.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just want to fight internally because the rich attack us constantly and nobody does anything about it.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

He would make a great Kebab skewer.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Imo the bots already did their work and now more than half of the country is willfully vegetative. I remember the last time i saw neuronal activity....

Now i want the US to have a civil war because im tired of being the tolerant left. Youre either for progress or your against it. For too long we have been hindered by wanting to maintain the moral high ground, civility politics, and the paradox of tolerance. Its all justifications for shitty behavior, and imo shitty behavior should no longer be tolerated. If you are arguing against human rights in 2025 i want to see you bleed, no exceptions

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Needs one more stick representing: Rest of the world US destabilized

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 4 months ago

At first glance, I thought those bots were pissing on the US. I still think that would make more sense.