benroyce, to politics
@benroyce@mastodon.social avatar

Online discourse: "You have to convince me to vote for Joe "

Why? I don't like Joe Biden. The idea that anyone has to convince you to fall in love with Joe Biden is as absurd of a assertion as the cult and , that is about

We don't view politics as a love affair. It's . And more importantly, it's your to vote

, , the , etc: issues you care about, or should care about

But ...

benroyce,
@benroyce@mastodon.social avatar

Trump said "finish the problem" about Gaza in March. He would greenlight for to max out on

So you're asserting your single-issue concern as more important than other issues and you're even wrong on that one issue

Biden sucks, but Trump and Biden are the only two who have a chance of winning. Again: , not

is how moves to topple , those are here on

kubikpixel, to politik German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Na gut, dies ist nun in Schweden aber wann wird es hier mal aufgeklärt, dass es auch in jeglichem Land Trollfabriken von den Rechten geben kann (oder gibt)?

»Politisches Erdbeben in Schweden wegen Skandal um Trollfabrik:
Enthüllungen über eine von den Schwedendemokraten betriebene Trollfabrik haben ein politisches Erdbeben ausgelöst.«

🔊 https://www.srf.ch/news/international/vor-europawahl-2024-politisches-erdbeben-in-schweden-wegen-skandal-um-trollfabrik


rameshgupta, to random
@rameshgupta@mastodon.social avatar

#KnowNothing #CardiB is too stupid to realize that NOT voting for #Biden is a vote FOR #Trump, and that her boycott of #Election2024 could be her last — She might not get another opportunity to vote EVER.

Via @SteveThompson

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cardi-b-wont-vote-joe-biden-or-donald-trump_uk_66477644e4b0cba40889b45b?utm_source=press.coop

benroyce,
@benroyce@mastodon.social avatar

@Vonskinnback @nicholas_saunders @rameshgupta

Also while we debate the notion of #voting/ not voting we need to consider two other forms of players here:

#Edgelords

They dont care about anything except watching the world burn. For lulz

#Trolls

Whether of the #domestic #rightwing or #vatnik/ #wumao variety, their point is to play #agentprovocateur, cosplaying #leftwing, and advance their #plutocrat/ #geopolitical agendas by suppressing the vote

#vote!

doomscroller, to Russia
@doomscroller@mastodon.online avatar

Great vid on disinfo and propaganda.Centred around Russian disinfo but applies to all the troll farms and agendas like the fossil fuel industry
ATP GeoPolitics: Ukraine War Upd. EXTRA (20240516): JR's Disinformation Piece - Rotten Herrings, Trolls, & Big Lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPam5JS__x0

astroPug, to random

Hey, has anyone else come across this:

You see a notification that something you have boosted has been edited. You check and it’s now an incendiary troll message you don’t remember ever seeing.

All the comments underneath are clearly in reference to another topic, so these people haven’t seen the troll message either.

What is this? Has this been seen before and where do I report this?

Is the original poster being account hijacked?

wdlindsy, to internet
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

Trolls are out and about now on social media, more active than I've seen them of late. Several reasons:

  1. The 2024 election in the US, with enormous consequences hinging on it, will bring them out more and more.

  2. Putin and his US fangirl Marjorie Taylor Greene (i.e., MAGA itself) just got handed a humiliating defeat.

  3. The Orange One is on trial, has to sit in a courtroom and keep his big mouth shut.


/1

MelodyWainscott, to random
@MelodyWainscott@zirk.us avatar

I finally made the trek to meet Bruunidun. She’s a #ThomasDambo giant #troll making her home next to Puget Sound in Lincoln Park in West Seattle. Idun is playing a troll sized flute to call home native #Orcas.

Go #TeamOrca! And trolls!

#Mosstodon

MelodyWainscott,
@MelodyWainscott@zirk.us avatar

Yesterday I visited Bruun Idun, again, (“Eden” for short).

She’s still chillin in the foresty forest of Lincoln Park, West Seattle, next to Puget Sound, playing her flute to summon resident orcas home.

This is currently my favorite walk. It’s 2 miles round trip and gives me forest, beach time and is just right.


Some_Emo_Chick, to news
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doctormo, to Youtube
@doctormo@floss.social avatar

I know you're not supposed to reply to and all that clap-back stuff in politics is a bit like feeding the anger machine (sorry Takei). I just... kinda had-to. Sorry 😅

Oh and "bro" don't get me started. What even are those things he mentioned. I've never heard of either of them.

hannu_ikonen, to random
@hannu_ikonen@med-mastodon.com avatar

This is either whoosh on my part or trans hate from another mastodon.social account:

https://mastodon.social/

HistoPol, to random
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@GottaLaff
@Free_Press
@Snowshadow
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
@forthy42
@noondlyt
@flexghost

FYI
I just blocked the

@nicholas_saunders,

who managed to make quite some inroads here. He knows quite some history, though.

He also tries to stir up the heat regarding Jews propagating a (fake?) Zionist agenda (quite likely, not even being a Jew).
Toxic.

HistoPol,
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@SteveBologna

I'd like to hear from some of the , like @atomicpoet or @ploum, here in the about vs. and / peddlers.

You might have a point there.

@GottaLaff @Free_Press @Snowshadow @GhostOnTheHalfShell @forthy42 @noondlyt @flexghost

helenczerski, to instagramreality
@helenczerski@fediscience.org avatar

Here in Bergen, they were ready for social media centuries before social media was invented.

benroyce, to Russia
@benroyce@mastodon.social avatar

I had no idea about this.

So much effort is put into agent provocateur efforts by .

RIP Shafiqah.

Thank you for exposing how campaigns work to smear, debilitate, and divide.

"Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought on , Dies at 46

When the hashtag # EndFathersDay began trending on , she realized it was more than a joke. It was a coordinated disinformation effort."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/shafiqah-hudson-dead.html

edit: paywalled and important, so i'll copy paste below...

Nonilex, to random
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

will step down as the leader in Nov after a record run in the job

, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his in the face of dramatic convulsions in the for ~2 decades, will step down from that position in Nov.

McConnell, who turned 82 last week, was set to announce his decision Wed in the well of the Senate….


https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/28/mcconnell-senate-step-down-november/72774714007/

Nonilex,
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

’s retirement from leadership will also mark the step back of an orderly counterpart to the tumultuous approach of , the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, and the hardline ahead of the Nov for president, the full of Representatives & a third of the Senate.


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mcconnell-step-down-senate-republican-leader-november-ap-2024-02-28/

LGS, to pnw
@LGS@friendsofdesoto.social avatar

I'm not trolling you ... well OK maybe I AM trolling you.
https://www.nwtrolls.org/#trolls

TruthSandwich, to fediverse
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I just received a false report, which contained vulgarity, from jorts.horse.

This is one of those troll-harboring instances, so I Suspended it.

First time for me.

vwbusguy, to Nintendo
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I got here over an hour early for the early admission. Looking forward to spending some time in the section this morning!

Universal Studios Hollywood sign

vwbusguy,
@vwbusguy@mastodon.online avatar

Because there aren't enough trolls on the internet

fatuus, to pfSense French
@fatuus@mstdn.fr avatar

Dis :mastodon: Tu aurais une solution facile pour faire un MitM 🚨 (SSL donc) avec du ?
(C'est pour intercepter tout ce qui passe dans mon VLAN et à quel point le 'S' dans cet acronyme est pour sécurité 🔒 )

Toute réponses étudiée, surtout les :blobnomcookie:

D'la bonne journée sur vous
:boost_requested:

banned_tweets_of_john_cusack, to TeslaMotors
@banned_tweets_of_john_cusack@mastodon.social avatar

This is the tweet of John Cusack that Elon 's #X suppressed with a "potentially sensitive content"-warning.....⬇️ -

ai6yr, (edited ) to climate

Woo hoo! Got my first account claiming that coal and natural gas are cleaner than solar and wind energy here! 😂 Duly blocked off my instance, but I am curious if they are a real person or AI. (claim to be from Tennessee, but their spelling is UK English. 🤔 )

Update: looks like they have a legit (small business) website, seems to be a bold strategy to pick fights with people over clean tech when you're in the natural food business 🤷

masterdon1312, to twitter
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Snowshadow, to mastodon
@Snowshadow@mastodon.social avatar

Using the block feature on fediverse is like wearing headphones in public when you want to avoid listening to the noisiest misbehaving children....

@GottaLaff you might like this one

TruthSandwich, to Israel

https://noagendasocial.com/@peppea/111654591916119118

This was their response when I blocked them for refusing to condemn Hamas. Guess I was right to do so.

rorystarr, (edited ) to books
@rorystarr@mstdn.social avatar

Folklore read live!

What hides in a volcano? Tectonics plates? Or angry trolls in magic underwear?
(It's obviously trolls, Science.)

Tales of lava [& Xmas] LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/rM8FAfXRc44

JulieHowlin, to Iceland
@JulieHowlin@mastodon.social avatar

Yule lads, or trolls, originate in Icelandic folklore. While legends abound about them, the official number is thirteen, and they come to town, one per day, between today and Christmas Eve.

10 facts about Yule Lads:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2014/12/12th-december-yule-lads-icelandic.html

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