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Your comment history is hundreds of these comments in the last day. You're clearly bothered. Just block them if their posts upset you.
They don't teach you basic maths either? Ohmygod, that's kinda horrible. How do you manage basic everyday living?
There's like four comments from today calling out months long spam, and instantly there's people protesting and crying and yelling.
I'm not the least bit bothered. Your projecting your emotions onto me. You are bothered. You are offended. You are mad.
And probably all because I'm right, you know it, but you also won't even accept it to yourself. It's pathetic, really.
You should block me probably so you don't need to be bothered by people calling out the existence of bad actors spamming propaganda, you'll just then get the pure propaganda. Much better, right?
Right about what? You haven't even explained what you're angry about, just vague hints and rage.
Pretty much the first rule of every single community on the internet that has ever existed is "no spam".
But you're maintaining that this account which clearly is a human and not a newsbot, isn't wildly spamming?
Honestly, this is like the rhetorical equivalent of fighting 5-year olds. Get a fucking education man
Spamming involves posting the same link or mesaage over and over again in multiple different places. Which funnily enough, is what you've been doing.
So what exactly is this then :
Hmmm............?
That's called cross posting, it's an incredibly widespread practice, and it's a common courtesy to share content between multiple applicable communities where there may be different people to see it.
It's a bit different from following someone around and posting cryptic bullshit in all of their posts. As others have said, just block them and move on if you're bothered.
But me commenting on three "cross-posted" posts about how this guy is spamming, that's spam. But his posts, which far outnumber my comments, are not spam, but my criticism of his spam is?
Honestly, how do you manage such cognitive dissonance?
No need to follow anyone around. You never browse new? He spams his links, so they appear at the exact same time. He doesn't read the things he posts, he spams. Just because you're having a tantrum, stomping your foot and pretending he isn't, that doesn't change reality.
Let me be clear:
Everything you are talking about is not an OP problem. It's also not everyone else in this thread's problem despite your insistence that it should be.
This is a you problem, and the easiest way to fix it is if you do what everyone else here is recommending: block them and move on.
Hey if you're bothered, you can just block me. ;>
You don't think disinformation online is everyone's problem?
Or are you gonna hope that by having ignored the questions in the last comment about you maintain your extraordinary cognitive dissonance, I'm gonna accept the implication that it isn't spam?
If you're getting so upset online, maybe take a break from it?
I'm not blocking you because I believe in doing what anyone else should do when they see someone else being harassed, which is to intervene.
Stop stalking OP. I don't care if you think your reasons are justified, this is not okay to do.
"Harassed", sure buddy.
Dude makes 12 posts an hour, every hour, for months, and calling him out on it is harassment?
So by calling me out now, aren't you harassing me?
When you browse new, he's all you see.
Stop being obtuse and pretending there aren't bad actors.
That's cross-posting. They're adding something to the community. What are you doing, exactly?
So you're still maintaining that propaganda doesn't exist?
It's not a newsbot just posting articles as they come out. It's not a person reading articles and sharing interesting content.
It's a person spamming pre-selected articles without even reading them. Thus they're not adding anything, because they don't even understand what the thing is they're posting. They're spamming.
If it was a person who posted the things he read, it would be different. But it's not. It's clearly spam with an agenda, and again, if you can't see it, I can't help you. Perhaps try taking some media literacy courses?
Then again, to be honest, I think you completely understand my point and this is the same age old tired bad faith bullshit.
Them:
You:
This isn't even mental gymnastics, it's mental parkour. You're just jumping all over the place, ain't ya?
Anyone can post with an agenda, if they want to. We all have an agenda of some kind. Just like you do, against this one person with whom you've taken umbrage.
The childish avoidance was quite charming the first year or two, but now it's getting just kinda tiresome.
"Oh Russian propaganda? No but everyone has an agenda, so Russian propaganda is nothing more than than that!"
See before; "this is the rhetorical equivalent of fighting 5-year olds"
One person having an opinion isn't propaganda. I have been ignoring your point because it's daft hyperbole. Block the person who's upsetting you and post about cars as much as you like. This clearly isn't making you happy.
After like a dozen times of talking about how he can't possibly read those articles he's spamming, how do you think he would form his own opinion, when he doesn't even read the articles?
You know this. You can try to draw this out as long as you want, but you're just going around in circles, pretending not to see the obvious. It's pathetic.
How do you think Russian disinfo and misinfo shows up online? Do you think they post "You should support Putin!" posts? That's a rhetorical question, I know you will never answer any of this.
Why do you care what they do with their time? What's the real reason?
What information that they have shared isn't true?
You don't even realise it but your quality of rhetoric is devolving.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)
Propaganda isn't synonymous with lying you uneducated twit.
For instance Davel@lemmy.ml did the exact same type of spamming of "don't vote genocide joe" and later anti-harris articles. Are any of those untrue? No. Did it help Trump win? Yes. (No matter how marginal the effect.) He also claimed to be American, when he painfully clearly isn't.
So yah, the quality of your rhetoric is going down. Maybe take a breather, have some krokodil, go to bed and try again tomorrow.
You said they are spreading misinformation - information that is wrong or incorrect. Did you not mean to say that?