• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You’ll get the hang of detecting paid trolls (or peoplec onvinced by them), there are lots of signs like Never back down, change the narrative (die hard people do not often do that), has lots of info that is somewhere in betweed what you are discussing and line USAbad/Russia_china-not-bad, Always lean onto one side, even if it’s subtle… sometimes not.

    And dude are they 99% pro dictators/trump/anti-demicracy/… you get the idea.

    For example, people calling out Biden for the Israeli war crimes, but conveniently forgetting Trump. And also because it was a pro Trump thing, now when Biden stepped down for reelection (shouldn’t change anything, right? A warcrime or genocide is still there) they all vanished…

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      3 months ago

      It’s equally possible you’re just assuming everyone who doesn’t share your opinion is a paid troll. I got called a Russian troll multiple times for saying Biden had no business being in this election and that we could do better. Imo it’s far more likely you’re talking to a child than a “paid troll” if their opinions don’t make sense and they dig their heels in. Assuming everything is some grand conspiracy instead of accepting that some people have different beliefs and opinions, or might just be that stupid, simply isn’t healthy. Trolls and such exist, sure, but I don’t think they are anywhere near as common as you’re implying.

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      3 months ago

      Maybe they “vanished” because they got what they wanted: an anti-genocide candidate. There’s not much point in saying that Trump is a fascist here because we all agree on it.