[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 15 hours ago

it's not that cia agents sound like liberals, but rather that liberals sound like cia agents. liberal parrot these points because it's what's been propagated through psyops to promote the us rhetoric. i made this kind of like a meme, it's worth keeping in mind but i'm not saying to use this orthodoxically to 100% confirm they are a fed.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago

im not saying we should set up a bot, just that the arguments are so repetitive that they end up being formulaic.

i guess maybe they realized that they couldn't do much psyops here so they're focusing on liberal instances. i might be losing my mind but i can't think of piefed as anything but a psyop.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago

it makes sense, i actually was inspired by your post, and tried to compile what's essentially the very tiring and repeated arguments they use and ended up writing this. i honestly believe you could wire up a bot to reply to them, because there's literally so few "arguments" that could be debunked with a parenti quote.

one thing i noted from your post is that you've mentioned high post to comment ratio, but you didn't mention numbers and in my experience there are probably 2 groups, one that only want to post propaganda to get upvotes and the other that focuses on spreading imperialism in the comment section.

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[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

i dont disagree, but if you don't mention stuff like threat model to n00bs they end up thinking they need to only communicate telepathically in order to not get spied on. every attack is possible, just not for every threat model, for example a very sophisticated js attack wouldnt be used on the wild, but more likely targetted on a specific individual because once it's known it's fixed and you can't use it. it's worthy so you use it on a worthy individual.

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instance-level signals

  • brand new account with no post history outside political threads
  • account from a known bad-faith/large general purpose instance (lemmy.world etc) that only ever shows up in communist/.ml communities

content signals

  • "both sides" framing but applied asymmetrically, equating us imperialism with defensive responses from targeted states
  • humanitarian interventionism: "but what about the people of x" used specifically to justify nato/us positions
  • treats western ngos and media as neutral baseline, demands extraordinary evidence for any counter-narrative
  • whataboutism that only ever runs one direction, deflects from western atrocities but never from the targets of western aggression
  • "im a leftist but..." followed by a position you could copy paste from a state dept briefing
  • disproportionate focus on us adversaries (china, russia, cuba, dprk, venezuela, iran) with zero comparable scrutiny of us allies
  • concern trolling about "authoritarianism" that somehow only ever applies to socialist states

behavioral signals

  • posts consistently during us business hours
  • only shows up when a specific topic is active, disappears otherwise
  • never updates their position no matter what evidence you put in front of them, the argument is purely performative
  • high comment to post, or post to comment ratio, always replying never posting, reactive disruption pattern
  • posts are concentrated in the same few communities, often with overlap between suspected accounts suggesting coordinated targeting
[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

this is a very specialized attack, your threat model needs to be way higher than the average joe for someone to do such a precision strike on this, all keeping in mind that you lose your stick.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

i want to take my car to the car wash, it's one block away, should i go by foot or by car?

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

its ok, you tried

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.... These organisations (i.e. Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins.
โ€” Stalin

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

i guess that if you look it from the pov of someone with a threat level of organization with certain political influence, doing that online get's complicated, it requires a lot of know how and even then, as mentioned, it's better to do the important talking offline and if you're super tinfoil hat use a jammer when talking lol. but if your threat level is simply having a right to your privacy while keeping camaraderie with fellow people on some other province or whatever... then yeah, use a private messenger, don't say anything too illegal and you'll be fine, i'd use matrix personally for this. you could even use genzedong's server since there are a lot of other communists too.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

ghandi was an imperialist bootlicking dog

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

well, here on lemmy for example when it comes to moderation we try to not follow the western narrative/norm when it comes to certain topics. i ban people constantly for expressing views that express normalized support for us imperialism, whereas in reddit you'd get that force-fed into your cerebellum even if you dont want to, in every community, all the time. generally this isn't so much an infrastructure issue, although it is, since us owned platforms push their view, they become mainstraim and the norm, and that way the Western Way is now the default. but rather how you engage as a community.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago

what's worse is that gringos have their heads so far up in their asses that they dont even realize this kind of shit. and freak out when you try to propose something neutral.

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i think the image size limit has been reduced some time ago, because of this i've encountered various situations where i had to manually compress images to be able to upload them. i think the size limit is at around 800kb, at least based on my experience. is there a way that images could be compress upon upload to avoid this? i genuiley rather have them look like a blurry mess than to have to edit them manually.

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i love lemmy, don't get me wrong, i've been here since almost the beginning and it's possibly the best community in the internet for me. i know the people, we all more or less share the same ideas. etc.

but lately ive just been really into old websites, where it was mostly static, squared, that kind of thing. i just love the imageboard/chan aesthetic, but not the people. ive been lurking a bit in lainchan (which is mostly okay for a chan and has a really nice vibe) and neocities lately. i'd love if lemmy had a ui which looks like a chan.

do you browse any community that's like 2000's 2010's internet era?

https://neocities.org/ https://lainchan.org/

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