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Your comment, while accurate and true, adds nothing to the discussion at hand. These sort of comments are useless which should be left in the realm of Reddit. Do better, try harder
“Sky is blue” “water is wet” were first recognized by Russian propagandists to disarm outrage. As In, essentially telling people “You’re stupid if you didn’t already know this.” For people out of the loop, it works.
Informing people of this technique is bad for some reason
Edit: Even when attempting to politely Inform someone they are using propaganda techniques you get pedantic hate from people who claim to be progressives.
Bro it's Friday, let's just all have a nice weekend and chill.
You have no authority so stop acting like you have any. Do better, be better.
I never claimed authority here. I identify and understand propaganda. Lemmy seems to be full of critical thinking adults who understand such things and the bad habits of cesspool Reddit. I believe everyone agrees the negatives of Reddit need to die, with Reddit.
Nah, you're just being a smug pos and coming off like a gatekeeper. But keep crying about how progressives are being mean to you.
Also, calling someone stupid isn't "politely informing".
You don’t even understand my comment.
I did. You just edited your original comment a million times within our first interaction. Don't think I haven't noticed, chump.
Sure kid. Trashy and juvenile. Go back to R/TheDonald
Repeatedly attacking other users gets your comments removed and earns you a 3 day timeout.
Please use the time to read the Sidebar.
Acting just like a trump supporter spewing vitriolic hate. This is supposed to be a place of civil debate, way to go, dumb it down, Juvenile and trashy
This guy has multiple accounts to downvote and manipulate votes, no life or love, so petty, I bet his family hates him
No vitriol here, but feedback that this was indeed a very well-meaning but gatekeepy comment.
Lol, I sure am hurting your feelings, huh? And how does me calling you out make me any less of a progressive? Such a baby.
Water curiously enough is not actually wet