Good Afternoon my fellow Russian shills!!! And love to my Trans Comrades who allow us to maintain the moral high ground! Drinks @ Duckstar this evening!!
England is a US vassal state and you're all part of the rebel alliance and traitors!
update: trans people are too attractive for beauty contests, too smart to play chess, too strong, tall, and fast to be a professional athlete, always have the moral high ground, can cause floods, alter the environment of the planet single handedly, and can kill god.
EDIT: I accidentally clicked on the text and quoted it
We demonstrate, first, that exposure to Russian disinformation accounts was heavily concentrated: only 1% of users accounted for 70% of exposures. Second, exposure was concentrated among users who strongly identified as Republicans. Third, exposure to the Russian influence campaign was eclipsed by content from domestic news media and politicians. Finally, we find no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.
@geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de claiming that queer people are faking it is incredibly uncool and offensive. Stop doing it. You would not claim that a black man isn't really black because he says something you disagree with because you'd get knocked the hell out. Don't claim people's identities are fake because our politics are to the left of yours. You're literally just abusing other lgbt people with that sentiment by essentially stating "unless your politics align with mine I will deny you the right to your gender".
@oatscoop@midwest.social blahaj.zone did defend a transphobe, refusing to demod a person engaging in transphobia because they didn't want to rock the boat and lose the activity of that community definitely unsafe for trans people. They make decisions in favour of activity over trans safety. Being trans or having a shork aesthetic is literally irrelevant to whether they make good decisions for trans people, you wouldn't claim that Caitlyn Jenner is automatically safe for trans people by virtue of being trans, and if you would then you're an idiot because she'd sacrifice trans lives for her wealth any day of the week.
Somebody explain to this "oatscoop" dingus what a chaser is
Seriously, we defedded from them because they (among other things) did not ban people for making threads about which surgeries make trans men undateable to them. I saw the thread where they discussed our callout of that, 90% of the posts started with "cis person here" and several immediately went into creeper territory and started discussing girldick (without any actual knowledge how a pre-OP trans woman's dick works, ofc). Blahajzone isn't a trans instance anymore, it has largely been taken over by insufferable cissie redditors when they accepted the r/196 lifeboat that ended up turning into 3/4 of their userbase and i pitty every trans person still holding out there.
It's very telling that they have to lie about us because 100 times out of ten we banned them for being bigoted and they can't admit that, so they have to make up shit instead lmao
I just genuinely do not understand how these fucking rubes seem to genuinely believe that Russia is somehow alone or uniquely powerful in terms of online propaganda or influence campaigns. Like I just want to sit down with these people face to face and try and see if they've even considered for one fucking second the idea that maybe literally every single national and private interest that exists, including their own country and corporations in it, are broadcasting propaganda online at a constant 24 hour basis.
Alt-right, far left -- basically everything but Liberals and respectable Republicans like Mark Rubio is a Russian psy-op! You can't get more left wing than me, a neo-con!
Seriously, though, the Russian government does not care what any of us think. General sentiment has no baring on US policy, why would you waste resources influencing it? The "alt-right" ascended to the "mainstream right" in America because young alt-right posters got jobs working for Republican campaigns. That happened on its own, nobody forced the RNC to give them jobs. Stop blaming our stupid stupid politics on some scary computer boogeyman an ocean away.
the admin of blahaj zone literally did fail at removing transphobia & created an environment that allowed chasers to prey on trans people. that’s, like, why we defederated…
Liberals: "Russia is losing 500,000 men every day due to Zelensky's large muscles. Putin's nukes are CGI, also uranium and radiation isn't that big of a deal anyway. They have no guns and must use muskets from the 1600s."
Also liberals: "Russia is conducting a massive psyop on a random, small, and irrelevant website that has existed several years before most of us because....."
I'll be honest, as the FSB Major-General in charge of Operation Hexbear I really let the mighty government of the Russian Federation down when I allowed the troll farm to have several heated arguments about outdoor cats and collective kitchens a couple of years ago before anyone even knew who we were, the whole thing was a terrible waste of valuable intelligence resources and caused some awkward lunch breaks in the Lubyanka. It was touch and go for a while and I'm pretty sure I saw a Spetsnaz execution squad scouting out my dacha in Barvikha. Thank god Prigozhin's fuck up distracted Putin from the whole thing, I might even get my end of year bonus if we fill our pig poop balls spamming quota!
The blahaj thing is like "we can't be racist, a black man is our president" combined with some good old misrepresentation.
Blahaj wasn't accused of being transphobic. Blahaj had transphobic users pointed out, which were not dealth with.
In other words: We proved it was transphobic.
Notice how the two datapoints offered by oatscoop are -- even taken at face value and with no qualification -- not remotely refutations of the claims. Like, are we going to say no trans person can ever defend a transphobe or that an instance is going to be safe and chaser-free because it's named after a stuffed shark?
I have a hard time keeping track when it comes to how powerful Russia is.
Are they omnipotent techno-gods? They're controlling even the tiniest websites, and with the mere swish and click of a mouse can decide who the President of the United States is. They're turbo-evil deities playing 3D chess.
Are they peasants with no brains? They're sending millions of people into a human meat grinder armed with shovels, and they don't know what "tank" or "airplane" are. They're orcs who are born out of mud holes.
Once again, anyone who doesn’t believe in liberalism in our wonderful amazing civilization that totally isn’t destroying itself must be either insane or paid by Russians.