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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 198 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"It is unambiguous clear that our message is toxic and the majority of people reject our ideology and us with it. Therefore, the most logical solution is to create an artificial narrative via manipulation and vote-buying that makes it appear that people like us." -these people probably

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 89 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it worked with the news.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It also worked with Reddit. The Palestine discourse there is utterly repulsive and gleefully genocidal.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it really that bad? I haven't been on Reddit in over a year.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

worldnews is absolutely surreal and awful. Country specific subreddits are also getting worse and worse.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Holy shit you're not wrong. I just browsed the top of the week on World News for a good twenty minutes and there wasn't a single post about the thousands of civilians that have been killed. I didn't see a single pro Palestine post and anybody talking about the literal war crimes being committed over there we're just downvoted. I think I agree with your word choice of "surreal." It feels like straight up propaganda and they are all falling for it. Every post about Israel was just saying something about how they're taking out the terrorists.

[–] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

I really wish I'd just taken your word for it. That's depressing.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's hilariously ironic that I got banned from worldnews four years ago for criticizing the Saudi regime and how they use millennia-old scripture as justification to treat women horribly. Apparently that's 'bigotry.'

Everything I hear about the toxicity of worldnews these days is baffling.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago

Well, Saudi Arabia is an ally in all but name to Israel. Also both countries have excellent ties to large swaths of US politics.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or... I run a reddit botnet, and Christmas is coming up. What's the easiest group of rubes to fleece?

[–] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

probably the group that follows repub politics

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That's what they've been doing for decades. And unfortunately they've been very successful at it.