mecfs

joined 1 year ago
[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Not sure I would call it Kremlin propaganda, they seem to be genuine radicals who want a better world. But it does seem they have a track record of repeating provably false narratives that originated from Kremlin or Assad press.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News

@Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Not sure how legit this wikipedia paragraph is but it raises some red flags:

MintPress News has reposted content from Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik,[26][27] and is listed as a "partner" of PeaceData, a Russian fake news siterun by the Internet Research Agency.[28][29][30] A report from New Knowledgeincludes MintPress News as part of the "Russian web of disinformation,"[31][32]and the site has published fake authors attributed to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency.[33] MintPress Newsdefended Russia's invasion of Crimea, claiming Ukraine's post-revolutiongovernment was "illegitimate".[34]

 

u/LeninMeowMeow moderates a large amount of big subreddits, r/therightcantmeme, r/gamingcirclejerk, r/animememes, r/greenandpleasent (a known russian propaganda subreddit source: Center for European Policy Analysis (think Lemmygrad)) and much more.

Anyways on r/lemmy, he says that lemmy.world is right-wing and thatcherite. I reply that it is more social democratic.

I instantly get banned from the subreddits he moderates and blocked by him. I have not commented or participated in any of their subreddits before, and this is my first ever encounter with them.

Weird and concerning behaviour. I fear that tankies are taking over most left wing spaces on reddit (not that I really use reddit for politics anymore, that’s why I’m on lemmy, but for the implications to our democracies, as a non-negligible chunk of voters are politically influenced by reddit).

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

my alt is on blahaj and I really enjoy the local stuff there but its so slow for me sometimes :/

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That feeling when you get banned for mentioning Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lemmygrad

lemmy.ml too increasingly

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yup.

Turns out, if you’re not willing to commit violence of some sort asserting power is pretty much impossible. (not saying we should assert violence, but historically, atleast since the agricultural revolution, it is rare not too see)

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

More like a defense of merchant ships attacked by houthis.

I wouldn’t call that a “war started by Joe Biden”.

 
 
[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It gets even better

In the footage, the PM told two schoolboys: “I’m a Coke addict. A total Coke addict.”

After a brief pause, he clarifies: “Coca-Cola addict. Just for the record. Just to be totally clear. I am a Coca-Cola addict. I have seven fillings to show for it.”