• nifty
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    It’s not just Jill Stein, it’s a lot of people you see talking about Gaza as some blood curdling atrocity, but they don’t have the same level of empathy or consideration for Ukrainians. The anti-Israel propaganda is just being used to drive the Muslim and progressive vote away from Dems. I think it’s turning out to be successful.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 hours ago

      It’s not just Jill Stein, it’s a lot of people you see talking about Gaza as some blood curdling atrocity, but they don’t have the same level of empathy or consideration for Ukrainians.

      I don’t want the US government selling weapons to Russia to use against Ukrainians. I’m glad we aren’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      299 hours ago

      And other lies you tell yourself.

      I’ve never met a Palestinian supporter that isn’t also a Ukrainian supporter.

        • @[email protected]
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          77 hours ago

          I signed up to Lemmy without knowing much about instances, can’t remember exactly why I picked lemmy.ml but it wasn’t politics.

          Is this really a generalisation people have? Should I move…?

          • The Quuuuuill
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            167 hours ago

            your admins also run lemmygrad. only you can decide if you should leave. personally, i like beehaw, slrpnk, dbzero, and blahaj. one important aspect to understand about the fediverse is that your instance is part of the identity you present to others

              • ArxCyberwolf
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                44 hours ago

                Probably best to use a smaller instance instead of .world. The less centralized Lemmy is, the better.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Ugh. Yeah I’ve heard that "it isn’t the best. It was the easiest to sign up for when the reddit exodus happened. I’m anti Israel and pro Ukraine and I’m always busy with real life/my own hobbies. I just don’t have the bandwidth for finding the best instance. C

          • @[email protected]
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            26 hours ago

            Personally, I’m fine with seeing differing opinions. On the political side, they get a bit obsessed with dunking and all these in-group memes for my tastes.

        • @[email protected]
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          46 hours ago

          Ah, see I realized they were either all bad faith actors, bots, or idiots ages ago and don’t federate with them.

      • @[email protected]
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        148 hours ago

        There are 20 Israel stories to every 1 Ukraine story on Lemmy.

        Regardless of your opinion on the matter, this platform is being heavily astroturfed, and so are many other “liberal” platforms. It’s actually way worse here than on Reddit.

        • @[email protected]
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          116 hours ago

          It’s actually way worse here than on Reddit.

          Because after r/ChapoTraphouse was kicked out from Reddit for inciting violence, the tankies moved to create lemmy.ml.

        • @[email protected]
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          107 hours ago

          Probably something to do with my country financing the underdog in one of these fights and the war criminals in the other.

          Do yourself a favor block grad and ml it cleans up a lot of bad faith arguments.

        • @[email protected]
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          77 hours ago

          Of course there are, and I probably post 3 of the 20.

          Other than the alt-right, you’re not going to find any support for Russia in the West.

          Why would we need to raise awareness and keep posting about Ukraine to the same level as Palestine?

          • socsa
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            106 hours ago

            Bruh I literally got banned from .ml twice just for mentioning the fact that Russia shot down a civilian airliner in Ukraine. You are completely delusional if you don’t see that a significant portion of these idiots are up Putin’s ass.

            • @[email protected]
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              You absolute little liar.

              the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the public.

              I am a real person, with an ethical obligation to stand up against genocide. There is no deception, I am a member of the public, and what I am doing is called activism (or slacktivism for the pessimists in the world).

              • @[email protected]
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                35 hours ago

                So, you admit that you are flooding this platform to deliberately present one story as more dominant in the news cycle than others in order to misrepresent its relevancy to current events?

                You can argue definitions and semantics all day, but that is what you’re doing - and it’s dishonest at best.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          27 hours ago

          we’re also numb to what’s happening in ukraine. people got tired around when it hit the one year mark

      • Cethin
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        159 hours ago

        I haven’t met any in real life as far as I’m aware, but I’ve seen plenty on here.

      • @[email protected]
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        I think they’re talking about the people on TV talking about it, not the protestors themselves.