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This user is not interested in good faith debates about political ideologies and injecting some actual fucking leftism into the US. They post a variety of articles, mostly to dilute the anti-Biden posts. For every 1 post about a random topic, return2ozma has 3 anti-Biden posts. They post just enough random topics to claim they aren't a troll. Their goal is to spread just enough propaganda to discourage leftist and sway centrists on Lemmy (lol centrists on lemmy).
Yes, I know. I'm partly posting for other people to read. If posting a constant stream of "don't vote for Biden" on leftist parts of the internet has enough effectiveness for someone to prioritize it (which seems to be happening to at least some level), then conversely it must have some level of effectiveness to do the opposite. It's what I do with my time instead of volunteering with some effective organized leftist political organization. 🙂 Why that is my priority setup, I don't know.
I am a bit sincere in holding out hope that they're simply a confused leftist who thinks that posting a constant stream of anti-Biden stuff is helpful in some way, but my faith in that worldview has been challenged, it's true. It is a challenging time in US politics at present.
Sounds like Nancy Pelosi! Tell those fake dems to go back to China!
What is three times five please
Stay in school, you'll get there eventually.
Dude, you can't make a comment like that and then get offended when someone wonders whether you're a bot
Are you retarded? Lol
Just in case you didn't Get my reference
Literally no idea what you're talking about. If this is something Pelosi said, I already disliked her enough that I didn't see any reason to focus on this story for long enough to absorb the details, so I missed it.
Want to switch to another unrelated anti-Democrat talking point now? We could talk about oil extraction under Biden, that seems to be a popular one.
You don't follow the news much do you?
Jeeze, I wonder why people would be upset that their candidate continues to shatter records set by the previous Conservative administration in terms of climate fuckups? 🤔
They’re a textbook example of a concern troll. But unlike Reddit, Lemmy is too small for their M.O. to go unnoticed. It’ll be nice when they eventually tire of their tactics being called out and go back to Reddit.
They're also showing a pretty textbook example of Never Play Defense from the alt-right playbook. I'm honestly not sure why I engaged with them for the length of time I did, but I looked back at the flow of the conversation and it was something like:
Me: This article being repeated at the frequency it is, is propaganda
They: You're saying Biden's going to win the election, let me attack that viewpoint
Me: Biden's record is actually pretty good, whereas Trump is the end of the world, that seems relevant
They: You're saying CNN's reporting of Biden is factually wrong
Me: It's relevant that Trump is the end of the world
They: You're saying we should ban CNN
Actually typing it out in summary, I have no clue WTF I was thinking with continuing the conversation that long 🤣