Lots of suspicious comments in this thread. Seems like political astro-turfing has already arrived on Lemmy
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Unfortunately they're probably real people. Most of Lemmy was full of tankies before the reddit migration so any post involving China or Russia brings them out in force.
lemmygrads leaking, i guess
It's like porn to them
Well, I must admit that things are starting to get interesting in the comments section.
Yes very interesting what things people will place in their anus
I was curious what you were talking about as there are only 10 comments through Beehaw so I checked out the original. It's overwhelmingly coming from hexbear.net which we've defederated from.
Got into an argument last week with somebody from Hexbear. Good to see the tankie trash being taken out.
There's a good number coming from Lemmygrad as well.
…which we are also defederated from.
So glad I chose this instance.
I know right! How come there are so, so many people defending China here? I thought they were the minority. Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.
The issue is there are a much higher percentage here because brigading wasn't allowed on reddit so they'd be banned for this type of activity. They come here and can do what they want, which is fine as long as it doesn't hurt other people doing what they want, which in this case is arguably happening because it clutters the comments with the same thing repeated over and over, and they are organized so it's all up voted. This doesn't make them the majority opinion though. It makes them the organized opinion. They are not the majority by any means, but they will make sure to come to China's defence whenever it's mentioned, where others won't bother.
Yeah! It's kind of sketchy how most hexbear.net comments here have >10 upvotes
edit: it's also sketchy that over 95% of comments on this post are from hexbear.net, while on the average Lemmy post (not on lemmy.world) there would only be less than 20%
I think it's going to be up to the users to run them out.
Yea, it feels like 4chan suddenly saw the light and then turned far-left all at once. They act like what the far right imagines the left to be like, but just looks like really bad anti-leftist propaganda, or they're just tankies :/ some hexbears are ok, though, but most here are just discrediting themselves by throwing the propaganda handbook at the passersby.
Yea, it feels like 4chan suddenly saw the light and then turned far-left all at once
Exactly this. They're running around spewing barely-sensical insults acting like they're dunking on people, but all their really doing is turning off anyone who was ever possibly sympathetic to their cause. And are completely un-informed on top of that
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Surprise surprise, Hexbear users came to brigade other instances exactly the way they said they would. Bad actors through and through.
I thought they weren't even federated with anybody...at least I can't see their communities in the list.
Goddammit, I do NOT want us to be propping up a war in Ukraine and fighting an actual war with China.
I wonder if we'd drop Ukraine if WWIII was starting. On the one hand, it's WWIII, on the other hand maybe Russia is still a likely enemy?
I assume NATO would officially swoop in and bomb the everliving fuck out of Russia's fleet and fortified positions before diverting their attention elsewhere. Basically giving Ukraine a much easier path forward.
Oh yeah, they could just clean up Russia directly if war was starting anyway. I think you're right.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, has repeatedly complained of Chinese military activity near it over the past three years, as Beijing steps up pressure to try to force the island to accept its sovereignty.
Taiwan's defence ministry said that starting at around 9 a.m. (0100 GMT), it detected a total of 25 Chinese aircraft engaging in operations out at sea, including J-10 and J-16 fighters, as well as H-6 bombers.
The ADIZ is a broad area Taiwan monitors and patrols to give its forces more time to respond to threats, and Chinese aircraft have not entered territorial Taiwanese air space.
China staged war games around Taiwan in April after President Tsai Ing-wen returned home from a visit to the United States where she met U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Taiwan Vice President William Lai leaves for the United States this week on his way to Paraguay on what is officially only a transit but which has angered China.
Taiwan's democratically elected government rejects China's sovereignty claim and says only the island's people can decide their future.
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They are just showing us what non-imperialism looks like
Holy shit this thread is a good example of why Lemmy is quite far from mainstream still. The army form one instance is strong here, quite fascinating and amusing to read.
Yeah what the fuck is going on here? The can't be legitimate users surely.
oh yeah, lots of internal economic pressure on the CCP as their property market comes CRASHING down.. Emperor Xi the Eternal needs a big distraction quick.. and he needs to be a bully, so that people think he's strong.. and bullying Taiwan is so easy for him..
what a big, brave, clever Winnie the Pooh