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I usually look at the English usage, personally. Certain sorts of grammatical and syntactical errors are really common in native speakers, others, not so much. You can kinda just feel when a particular wording isn't very American, especially if you read it out loud to yourself. While a whole bunch of ESL types are on here and that's fine, when you encounter one with really, really strong opinions on American politics, that's a little weird.
For me it’s usually the irrationality of the arguments. Like they don’t even really believe what they’re saying, they’re just kind of writing these disagreeable nonsense-messages and then moving on. It’s hard to explain but the stuff about calculators is a perfect example. Real humans don’t say stuff like that, and even organic trolls will usually invest some effort into their discourse. The lazy and illogical shit-commenting seems to be frequently a sign of someone who’s doing political propaganda. They genuinely just don’t even seem to give a shit if you believe them or not.
More than once I’ve had someone make some kind of leap of moon logic like that, when we’re not even talking about US politics, and clicked on their user to see what the heck their deal even is and found a bunch of “why not to vote for the Democrats” stuff and ohhhhh it all makes sense now, got it.
I went back and forth with someone that was totally a democratic but every single post was anti Biden. I asked them to literally say anything bad about, and they wouldn't make a single statement. I said to just write a fact, like that he's a felon, but that was too much. Maybe this person was just really stubborn, but I find it hard to believe that anyone that's against Trump wouldn't put in the minimal effort to show that they do in fact not like him. Most people I think have seen that user around if you spend any time in politics, but I haven't since then so that's nice I guess.
Another fun exercise is ask them what they think of NATO.
I dunno I started blocking those - supposed people - after the first wave of “gEnOSiDe jOe”.
TBH I only blocked about 10 users and that’s pretty much solved it.
We've had our rounds too. I'm not sure which it was, but there were a good 3-5 accounts that I'd see a lot, and if I had the energy, would call out.
Removed, civility.