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Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 6 months ago by aodhsishaj to c/asklemmy

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This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion.

I'm not even talking about necessarily in this community directly, however in a lot of other spaces I've noticed a lot of accounts using divisive language and terms like "The ineffectual left" "single issue voters" "ignorant right wing morons". Lots of straw man arguments, lots of willful ignorance.

I'm not a centrist, I'm very very very far left however I know well enough not to patently dismiss the talking points of others, outside of course calls to genocide. I know what dog whistles sound like, and I'm hearing a lot of them lately.

Most egregiously I'm seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.

So I guess my question is, how're we all fairing with what might be the largest Turing test ever?

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[–] Dasus 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What are you on about? We live in a global society, of which the US is a pretty influential part and also happen to have a very significant military.

If Trump wins and does everything he's been going on about, it'll definitely influence the rest of the world, however indirectly. And it will directly influence a lot.

Yes, it will affect Americans the most, but to pretend that it won't affect the rest of the world is naive.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think you got lost in the same argument lemmy users get lost in. Go read my first comment again and see how I say I'm not American just to let others know I'm not very biased. I also mention as far as I know along with direct impact.

My whole point was about being able to criticize biden but guess what we are back to Trump bad discussion which no one is disagreeing with. There's a lot bigger threats while I live than trump or biden. It's the reality my friend. That's not to say that these elections don't matter. Right wing extremism is growing around the world and it's important for us to call it out. This however doesn't need to stop people from criticizing actions of left.

And I specifically asked about your hypothesis of US pulling out of NATO. As you haven't provided any sources, I would assume it's fear mongering. Some of you American left are mirror identical to the right.