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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Lemmy unfortunatly is slowly transforming to reddit again regarding israel. I just interacted with someone blaming all israeli actions on palestinians
No reason to think the Mossad doesn't devote some time here. They're incredibly active on Reddit, and I'm sure they have some people arguing in bad faith on Lemmy as well.
You are right but there was a lot less few weeks ago
I think Lemmy is just doing it in general. Powertripping mods that don't get questioned by admins, stupid rules that punish good faith users but enable bad faith people, mass sockpuppeting...
I'm glad federation enables people to block some obviously bad accounts and instances, but god damn it feels like 50% of all instances are going insane because of a nation they aren't in, that doesn't care about them, is being called out for being a ethnostate.
Lemmy is on of the few places where this discussion is even possible so I guess Israelis and their acolytes figure it out and came here to derail it.
It wild how quickly public sentiment gets sanitized on redidt. Sure they let it run but then it is gone the next day like it didn't happen.
At least here we can document it as it happens.
Unfortunately yes. First there was a feddit.org. Now I can see it spreading.
Are we sure these aren't bots? I have a hard time believing someone can see what's going on in the news and doesn't see this as the genocide it is. Unless they're extremely conservative, and only get their news from fox and oann. But then they wouldn't be on lemmy anyway.
(I'm the guy this thread is about)
Six months ago, I would’ve argued against the claim that what Israel is doing here amounts to genocide. But at this point, the stack of evidence is piling up so high that it’s becoming increasingly hard to deny.
Even 6 months ago they were committing genocide. They've been committing genocide for well over a year. You must have sand in your eyes if it took you this long to see it.
You must have not seen some of these comments. I was accused of antisemitism very recently.
Gotta love witch hunting... you sound like an arse* but, no, what you did is definitively not antisemitism. And you definitively did a good call in that thread.
*to be fair with you, so do I.
Yes because they talk about multiple topics.