Good lord, the comments on that article. I guess I shouldn't expect any better from RT, but man it does really make me sad that so many people are happy living in a fantasy world where Ukrainians are the bad guys in this conflict.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

If you think that's bad you really don't want to look at what's goin on in Palestine.

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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Go Ukraine, but it's official, this worldnews community has become ragebait, like the original one :/

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's particularly upsetting because lemmy.ml is a major instance. IMO, moderation in this c/ is infrequent and underwhelming. I don't mean to hang the mods out to dry; it would take a big team to wade through this effluent and tame the trolls. The hostile "Here comes the Reddit refugees" and "OMG Tankie brigade" shit is just the easy stuff. A rule on lazy whataboutism would help the signal/noise ratio as well. This post is from RT, about Ukraine/Russia/Belarus but the biggest thread in here is rehashing the Iraq occupation. Can we just discuss the original topic? Is that so hard?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can we just discuss the original topic? Is that so hard?

When your entire schtick is anti-westernism then yeah it is that hard. I really don't mind the comrades at lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, they generate some thought provoking content at times. However their blind, predictable, and endlessly repeated talking points are tiresome in the same way that an invasion of Fox News viewers would be.

[–] Dee@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This post is from RT, about Ukraine/Russia/Belarus but the biggest thread in here is rehashing the Iraq occupation. Can we just discuss the original topic? Is that so hard?

This is why so many instances defederate from hexbear, they do this in every comment section. Just turn it into whataboutism against the US, and add nothing to the topic that's actually being discussed by the article. They're basically lemmygrad but brigade comment sections more often.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, hexbear is trashy authority propaganda.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Brigading is their entire purpose for existence on this site, they actively plot to harass and invade other instances to deny people a platform and talk about where to spread their "forces" next. They were taking bets on where they'll be defederated next. They were never on this platform to participate in good faith.

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[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's the neutral flag:

[–] Willer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

less competition for the ukrainian teams ;)

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of that fencing incident.

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