finally mask off being "not these conservatives" , pretending to be the left-extremist or whatever while parroting right wing talking points at the same time.
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I'm sure I'm not far behind in the ban, but the absolute state of a tankies mind is stunningly unhealthily internet brained.
I'm telling you, these guys are too terminally online and repulsive to not be paid to do this stuff
They are not terminally online. Their shift is 8 hours, then someone else manages the account.
Yup. I wonder how much they get paid?
They continued on about something something its USA's fault, which might be true in this particular case, but mostly irrelevant in reality. they always ignore the current issue. Its literally the same thing every single time, I've started tagging every single one I see. I should write them all down lol.
I have the entire lemmy.ml and hexbear.net instances blocked. Nothing of value has been lost and my experience has dramatically improved.
Same. If I see a ml user who has clearly lost all touch with reality I block them as well.
lemmygrad is the other to be banned too.
I’ve switched to piefed and the first thing I did was block the triad and start clean and fresh. I don’t want to see that pollution at all
thier annoying users infiltrate the other instances though.
Yes but it still blocks out the majority of them then I can individually block. If too many are from the same instance then that instance will be blocked.
Ah yeah, but I like trouble unfortunately lol. I like to keep up on their current policies so that I can pick a random one out in another instance as well.
Don't even need to tag em lol. The .ml in their username is enough
Tankies are such redditors lol
they probably came from there, after being banned. probably banned for conservative trolling comments, because they sound the same anyways.
When their side does it, it's okay. I was told I was a shitlib the other day for daring to criticize Lenin and Stalin.
Don't you know the industrialization lifted the material condition of those the party didn't murder or send to Siberia to die?!
Whoop-de-doo! That's like saying it was justified stealing the homes of and killing the natives of the American North was good. Because the Detroit auto industry raised the material condition of a lot of people who weren't killed or run from their homes.
Watch them say how this comparison is somehow invalid because "erm aCTuaLLy, eVRyONe tHE bOlShEVIks KiLlEd wERe faScIsTS 🤓👆"
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Beginning his working life as a bus driver, Maduro rose to become a trade union leader before being elected to the National Assembly in 2000.
Finally, a grass roots, socialist, politician.
Between 2013 and 2023, Venezuela dropped 42 places in the Press Freedom Index. According to estimations by the United Nations (UN) and Human Rights Watch, under Maduro's administration, more than 20,000 people have been subject to extrajudicial killings and seven million Venezuelans have been forced to flee the country.
...well, nevermind then.
I was unfamiliar with him before now. God damn.