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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yep. Just red through some of the comments on lemmy.ml for this news and compare it to the instance of the accounts. https://fedia.io/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/597721/Sweden-officially-joins-NATO#comments

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

lol reminds me of when it was explained to me that Russia is an Asian country and if I supported Ukraine it meant I was racist against Asians

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't make any sense on absolutely every level. lol

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They will then post an article talking about Russia “reclaiming” its Asian-ness and another that says that it was Asian all along. Then they will downvote you into negative double digits while explaining how horrible a person you are

PS I actually moved here after many months of it. Had no idea what “ml” meant. I joined there because it was the dev instance.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The devs being tankies was one of the reasons why I went with kbin / mbin over Lemmy. It just didn't sit right with me. But I also couldn't stand the layout / design.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I wish I had known! I really do. But I’m here now and it’s ok. This instance is full of nice people for the most part, it’s like 2005-era social media again.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, that's some fun logic. A equals B, and B equals C, so A equals C. But this isn't math and subsets aren't totality. So hating Russia for warmongering isn't hating Asians for being Asian.

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Yiikes the comments there are so toxic its crazy. Glad I've got those instances blocked.