I don’t read r/conservative much but what I’ve seen is they keep banning actual conservatives because they correctly call out what Trump is doing on things where it’s not about left and right but right and wrong.
Some people are saying that it could be coincidental. OP asks why would the two accounts who post so regularly just happen to both stop at the same time on that day.
It’s direct from the Russian playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_generation_warfare
It’s probably happeneing here on Lemmy, too. Granted, I can be abrasive, but the lovely mods here delete my posts almost every time I engage with a fucking stinking Yuri bot.
It’s definitely happening. /c/conservative on most instances is just farmed posts.
you could try being slightly less aggro and racist if you don’t want your posts getting deleted
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I feel like your claim, that Russia is of one distinct race of people, is the real racism, here.
Either way, tolerance ends with the intolerant. The Russia people have had plenty of chances to prevent Putin from gaining power and waging war, and they did nothing, so fuck em.
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As an American, every American is responsible for Trump, that’s kinda how it works. That’s how the world sees it, and that’s how you should understand it.
So you got out and vote against Trump, you canvass for his opponents, you attend marches against him, and you educate others of the risks of trump.
Yet you’d still be responsible for him. Thats some wacky logic there lad.
Edit: Mods removed by reply below. All i said was my city was bombed by terrorists, Manchester Arena Bombing, and I don’t hold all people of the same race as the bombers responsible. Where the fuck are we r/conservative with the censorship.
Lool
I would expect and hope that all ruzzian orcs think so, Olga-the-Stalker-Orc !
Damn bro pulled up with the receipts and everything.
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Oh man, I bet these tanky memes kill so hard with the right crowd. The cat throwing the book on settlers, that’s like all the cutest weirdo dog whistles.
identifying j sakai as a tankie really says more about you than anyone else tbh
I would expect and hope that every ruzzian orc thinks so, Olga-the-creepy-Stalking-orc!
Lmao, calling this nazi is not only unhinged, it’s fucking hilarious.
ML user trying not to be cringe when Russia or China comes up challenge failed. You used to hold less water for those weirdos, the propoganda is actually changing you.
the comments were moderated on .world, not .ml idk why you’re making it about that.
anyway the guy just essentially called me a cockroach, or at least he thinks of me as one. that’s why he sounds fashy as fuck
lol rusnya
You are becoming just as much of a call-outable .ml weirdo as any of the top users. It’s both obvious and sad.
At a certain point doesn’t the word nazi just lose all meaning when you use it when your feefees get hurt. You’re seeing fascists and Nazis every where you look, it’s becoming the word you use when you disagree, it’s fucking cringe.
Like seriously, it’s weird.
the guy calls everyone he disagrees with Russian, and cockroaches, I don’t think you’re in any position to complain about me identifying what I see him as in return.
At a certain point doesn’t the word nazi just lose all meaning when you use it when your feefees get hurt.
for me it’s generally reserved for the people who absolutely revel in dehumanizing other humans.
I despise anyone who would try to stick up for Dumbass Donnie And Puny Pootin.
Dumbass Donnie And Puny Pootin.
are you trying to get me to cringe to death jfc lmao
I think they’re both criminals that Lenin would have shot, idk why you think the childlike names are a cutting insult
you’re acting like me saying this shit from oop doesn’t add up is proof that I’m in league with them.
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land, the common clay of the new West.
That ain’t racist. That’s just the truth.
Nice, the brave warriors in Ukraine are already having positive effects for the rest of the world.
That’s depressing
Not surprised and the shills persuaded Reddit to ban me. Oh well, it was a blessing in disguise. F-Reddit and their Moscow connections.
Not surprising lol
Virtually every major outlet for the right wing is, in some way shape or form, controlled by fascist foreign actors. Especially Russia.
All the dumb-fuck faux leftists supporting Russia over Ukraine, claiming Ukraine has a major Nazi problem, need to open their fucking eyes and see Russia is the biggest exporter of Nazism world wide.
the best part of all of it…is the reveal twitter had a couple weeks ago, where they put access location and registration location as publicly visible…for all of 5 minutes, revealing the fact that most big head conservative twitter accounts are foreign controlled psyop/propaganda outlets.
Crazy how the right wing just absolutely ignores that 98% of all the big totally patriotic american twitter accounts telling them what to do and how to feel come from russia, belarus, etc etc.
They hate the libs so much they’d prefer to get bent over by our enemies as long as the libs get owned.
Interesting. Which accounts were these at the time of reveal?
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-accounts-based-outside-us-exposed-11097693
heres some of them, I’m pretty sure there was more.
If we invade Venezuela or even continue to steal oil tankers, is argue we’re at least the same of level fascism as Russia. Prageru is insane I’ve heard that some schools have prageru in the classrooms. It’s hard to imagine that we aren’t on the same path as Putin was. We could elect the coolest socialist women president ever and the supreme Court would still be there to prevent any progressive legislature. We suck
Yes, it’s important to understand that America does not actually have any homegrown problem with right wing extremism, and certainly doesn’t need to consider if any structural or societal issues have caused these problems. The issue is foreigners; foreigners who have been allowed too much influence and control. The solution to America’s issues is to stop being so lenient with foreigners.
claiming Ukraine has a major Nazi problem, need to open their fucking eyes and see Russia is the biggest exporter of Nazism world wide.
Exactly; the fact that Russia has Nazis means that it is by definition impossible for Ukraine to have a Nazi problem. They are diametrically opposed.
Found one account operating from third world ruzzia.
Mmm I wonder what that means 🤔
Conservative_memes is full of indians posting about American politics. You used to be able to see posting history until reddit wanted to protect the spammers
I assume by Indians you mean Russians. It is all known than Russia is the country behind all of this
Even the Russian bots are outsourcing to India.
India and russia are pretty close, for whatever reason, I’ve had some distant family move to russia, and they talk about it how immigrants talk about america here? Like an opportunity.
Russian ppl themselves seem like any other ppl in any other country?
Removing the conservatives who dissent might backfire on them bc they might end up thinking they’re not considered “conservative” anymore and find other ppl to hang out with. And the reddit shillbot page will just be talking to itself. One can hope
Honestly, it probably is 70% bots and illegitimate posters at this point. Doesn’t matter though, if they still browse r/conservative while banned they’re getting fed from the teet of the outrage machine.
what would lenin do?
continue to rot.
What would Stalin do?
Get drunk?
Obviously by agitprop, Putin wants to be the first to win the new Cold War without even firing a single shot.
It may be working in the short term but in the medium term MAGA may be imploding as real people get their faces eaten by leopards and become disillusioned with the movement.
That doesn’t mean much. It just means the next snake oil salesman that appeals to their base emotions will win their dumb hearts.
Regular, factual and continued education is the only way out of this mess. Note the present dismantlement of said Department.
Also it’s a cult of personality meaning it requires active maintenance by the leader, meanwhile Trump is actively melting and may not even have enough of a personality to count eventually.
A bomb only explodes for a few miliseconds. The problem is the damage it does persists.
This case it’s a dirty bomb.
China’s way ahead.
Indeed. They have our infrastructure by the balls. As soon as we try and stop them from taking Taiwan, if that even happens, we will stop having water power and gas in short order.
After 8 hours without water hospitals stop working. Think about that for a minute.
I hear there was a power outage in Zhenjiang and everyone I didn’t like on the Internet disappeared
Nice try Xi.
The title is misleading at best. I’m sure 30-50% of the content are bots, but the link to Moscow is… let’s say tenuous. There is no good source for a blackout in Moscow, only in a minor city (100k inhabitants) of the Moscow area called Zhukovsky according to one of the comments in the post. Russia is a country with 150 million inhabitants, searching for blackouts anywhere in the country on one event of reduced bot activity isn’t real science, and doesn’t point to any kind of causation.
Further down in the post, if you read it, you can even see OP was using problematic methodology and had to point to another post. You’re literally just going by the words of a random reddit user at this point. This is conspiracy theory level shit, guys, you can do better than this.
Edit: link to the corrected reddit post by the same user. Look at the fifth graph provided. Amazing that 350 people upvoted this conspiracy shit, you guys have a serious problem over at .world
Edit 2: @BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip do you have anything to reply at all to this? Don’t you think your post is disinformation, or at least the title?
Hmmm…Power must be on in Moscow at the moment.
Hopefully, Ukraine will correct that error soon.
Oh no, I contradicted your baseless conspiracy theory, I definitely must be paid for by all-powerful and simultaneously about to collapse Ruzzia!
Shouldn’t you be digging babushka a fresh latrine pit, Boris? The old one is full, and the Mighty Midget Pootin needs it to recruit more of you from :)
Looking at your history you seem to be a bit of a Russia’s defender.
Are you a Russian bot yourself? Do you feel called out? You seem very defensive. Projecting much?
You seriously don’t think there’s anything wrong with 700 people upvoting this dogshit conspiracy theory misinformation? Are you gonna pretend it’s alrighty and dandy because “it’s le evil Ruzzians at work again”?
“RuSsIaNs ArE tHe GoOd GuYs. ItS tHe NaTO fAuLt tHeY hAd To iNvADe Ukraine.”
Literal maga behaviour, I expected better from people who fled reddit
you can take the redditor out of reddit etc
If you said Russians are the reason you’re always missing one sock in your dryer, half of Reddit would agree.
Hmm. Sounds like something a Russian would say.
We already know what YOU are, Yuri.
You’re literally just going by the words of a random reddit user at this point.
You’re describing 90%1 of all internet discussion.
1 no actual sources available
I tried improving it by updating the title and description. Even looking at the corrected image we still see disruptions in posting on that day and OP asked a question: why did they both happen to stop on that day despite having such regular posting habits?
why did they both happen to stop on that day despite having such regular posting habits?
One of the reddit comments has proposed a pretty simple explanation: the two profiles are the same person. Just one person’s posting habits were disrupted.
why did they both happen to stop on that day
They were the Best Man at their cousin’s wedding in Cleveland? Use your imagination. There are infinite possibilities.
You can be honest and say you have an agenda posting this because of your political opinions, but it is disinformation. Without any link to Russia other than a localized blackout in a minor city in the Moscow region (not part of Moscow, as your post implies, but Moscow Oblast), you could equally make the guess that the posters/bots were on holidays because of Halloween/Día de Muertos and didn’t make posts because of expected low engagement.
The fact that you’re trying to push a link between the two a-priori unrelated events, even if you frame it under “I’m just asking questions”, has a deliberate attempt, and my worry is not exclusively with you as a single individual doing this, but the 500 conspiracy-brained upvotes taking this shit and nothingburger to the frontpage.
to explain my downvote
You should state your opinions without making aggressive, worst-faith assumptions of others. That kind of rhetoric got this republic to this point in the first place.
Off topic, but I want to say that I appreciate you explaining your downvote. Some of the downvotes on here seem entirely senseless and definitely make one wonder, “Why would anyone downvote that?” When people explain their reasoning, not only are they contributing to Lemmy in a more constructive way, but it helps other commenters gain perspective. Thank you for adding your thoughts.
That kind of rhetoric got this republic to this point in the first place.
curious what rhetoric you mean? they just pointed out that this looks like a conspiracy theory with tenuous evidence.
the oop is attributing posting patterns changing on a US subreddit to a power outage in the middle of the night in some random city with 100k people in Russia, when it was also a holiday (Halloween) in the entire US.
i don’t think that it is aggressive to point out that this is a silly correlation that is actually disinformation when framed this way - lots of people are going to just read the title, upvote, and move on with all their predisposed biases feeling confirmed
You can be honest and say you have an agenda
you’re trying to push
just lay out the argument, I don’t have patience to read flamewar crap.
Her argument is “ruzzia good, west bad…”.
no, my argument is that this is comically tenuous evidence.
its like saying that there was a power outage in New York City because Poughkeepsie has a power outage. then concluding that it is evidence of a US troll farm because it coincided with a dip in traffic on reddit during a major holiday.
You should state your opinions without making aggressive, worst-faith assumptions of others.
“Russians control Reddit! I demand you take my assertion in good faith and be nice to me.”
Okay buddy.
Yeah, you’re definitely a stinking Yuri!
When people make disinformation campaigns, whether it was their intention or not, I will respond accordingly
“When people make campaigns that don’t match my agenda, I will respond accordingly”
FTFY
Are you seriously defending the contents of this post?
Are you seriously defending Russia?
Go suck Putin’s dick.
Until the rubles stop coming, hey Boris?
Russia is simultaneously a shitty gas station about to collapse and just a few sanctions away, and an all-powerful entity dominating US and EU politics. Everyone who contradicts this is paid for by the state.
Russia is a shitty gas station about to collapse, that just happens to have inherited nukes from the evil empire that collapsed before them. This is literally the ONLY reason that anyone pays attention to them. Just like North Korea, Boris-the-Orc.
You can be honest and say you have an agenda
Cool, now you go.
My agenda is socialism, as you can see directly on my username. I’m not hiding anything. Blaming the far right autoctonous to Europe and the USA on foreigners is not realistic analysis, and so won’t reach realistic results. “Let’s close Russian disinformation” good, let’s also close western disinformation, which is vastly more prevalent and, you know, LEGAL.
Yet another reason to support Ukraine, maybe they’ll knock out Moscow’s power more often.
I fucking hate conservatives but for some reason I was never banned from r/Conservative even though I’ve been banned from r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/sewing, r/pitbulls, r/reddevils, r/todayilearned, r/news, r/law, r/…
Dude I’ve been banned from a lot of subs. My conspiracy theory is that I was permabanned from reddit because the admins fucking hated me and they just wanted me to shut up for once.
I’m struggling to see how your comment is a response to the one you replied to? But anyway yes, moderators across many platforms can be quite egregious.
Though at some point, when the same thing happens many times with many different people, one must consider that they may possibly be the problem.
Anyway, you must have done something pretty bad to be banned from the Manchester United community haha, I can’t imagine they’re a strict bunch xD And the conversation would only be about football, after all.
I may or may not have forgotten what I was replying to mid-comment
ok grandpa, let’s get you to bed. 😆
Been there
I’ve been banned from plenty of subreddits and things. Generally it involves going into a circlejerk and telling them something they don’t want to hear.
r/conservative, r/antivax, r/Tesla, either of AI or anti AI, whatever.
It’s one of a conservatives best qualities…being a snowflake. Boy do they like to whine and cry !
what would trotsky do?
Take an axe to the head
the mods are well known russian shills, or russian backed mods. thats why they silence even conservatives that are critical of trump.
Aren’t most American conservatives these days Russian agents regardless of if they’ve ever set foot in Russia?
“Useful Idiot” is the term Russia uses for them
No. MAGAts are just loud af and get the most attention. If more people just showed up to vote for Kamala instead of protest due to Israel (which is now much worse off due to Trump), he would have lost then, and his popularity is dropping everyday even among conservatives.
which is now much worse off due to Trump
You’re just straight up lying. Lying about genocide. How exactly any better than MAGA at this point?
He’s not lying. You are delusional probably, or maybe you have a bank account denominated in rubles…?
Kamala: *calls for cease fire
Trump: *says Israel should finish off Palestine
Idiots: bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMeThe majority of deaths were under Biden and the current rate of killing is lower than it ever was under Biden. But of course, you only care about what they said. You don’t give a fuck about the actual condition of the people in Gaza, so long as you have Democrats telling you soothing lies.
Seriously, you are as evil as the worst of MAGA; perfectly willing to lie and engage in genocide denial to defend your team.
Oh, and by the way, Trump said Israel should finish off Hamas, which is exactly the same as Harris said. Trump also called for a ceasefire. So more disgusting lies from a Genocide supporting American MAGA fascist
Seriously, you are as evil as the worst of MAGA
Genocide supporting American MAGA fascist
Surprised “Nazi” wasn’t thrown in there amongst the rest of the inaccurate, idiotic name calling. Not sure why you’re describing me like you should be describing Trump. Let’s see, a lemmy.ml user defending Trump and resorting to some aggravated name calling to anyone that puts him down? Do you also think Trump should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, that he should stay in power forever, and the economy is the best it’s ever been? Maybe step outside of that Russian bot farm and touch grass.
You’re lying, of course. Always shriek loudly, just like Donny 2 Dolls and Mighty Midget Pootang do, but never, ever, ever show any proof, hey Boris?
Yes, actual Americans would never behave like that. Americans are superior people.
