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    I dont know for fact, but I treat any political meme like it might. This combined with it not being relevant to the discussion would make me prefer to just not have them at all

    I appreciate your comment though, it challenged assumptions without being egregious

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      I dont know for fact, but I treat any political meme like it might.

      I don’t really think this is a rational or particularly healthy stance to take on political memes. I can maybe understand if your stance was just “keep the worldnews posts serious”, though I’d disagree with that too. But saying that you’re trying to avoid Russian influence by avoiding memes is… idk. Doesn’t really make sense to me. Political memes aren’t inherently Russian.

      You also have to consider Russia’s like, motives here. I don’t really see a reason for them to want to make pudding jokes about DeSantis.

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        I appreciate your concern, but can assure you I’m mentally healthy

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          I appreciate your concern, but can assure you I’m mentally healthy

          you totally might be, but the bare fact that you had to say this to someone today should probably prompt you to reflect a bit about all this friend

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            They’re mentally healthy for a westerner

            Which is so rabidly racist and xenophobic that they’re calling out random memes for being Russian as an insult

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            I’m gonna push back on this fam. It’s peak reddit-logo libshittery to internet diagnose someone with mental health problems as a way to “critique” their positions. We’re not about that shit.

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      So you refuse to use or enjoy ANY meme that is political? Because supposedly your countrymen are so stupid that they got swayed by foreign memes into voting for trump?

      That is a line of reasoning I guess.

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        The weirder thing is is that I checked their post history and they said they’re conservative, though based on their fear of Russian memes I’m guessing a Never Trumper? Weird.

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          How about the part the only hexbear user I looked into history for was tied to Russia?

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            I’m sure you think you found evidence of a Hexbear user’s “ties to Russia” but I promise that Hexbear is just a bunch of leftist shitposters. Your fear of Russian influence is not healthy nor tied to reality. I’m not even concern trolling here, I’m genuinely concerned for your mental health. This paranoia is not healthy.

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              I’ve worked for major social media companies for a majority of my career and understand the impacts they can have, I can assure you my concerns are healthy

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                  I’m not a huge fan of leading questiond, maybe just say the point you’re trying to make?

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                    Fair enough.

                    All the major social media companies I’m aware of are based in Silcon Valley, IE the United States. I’m not saying that foreign governments don’t try to astroturf them, but surely companies based IN america are more likely to be heavily influenced BY American influences (corporate and government)? And surely you should be more afraid of having your opinion influenced by propaganda from the people who actually hold the power over the platform, than from foreign governments trying to infiltrate the platform? Surely you should be more afraid of the powers that be that are actually close to home for you?

                    This is my thing with people that are afraid of Russia or CPC influence. I’m not a Christian, but I do think that Jesus had a really good damn point when he said “take the beam out of your own eye”. Focus on whats going on in your own neck of the woods.

                    Its like the “TikTok harvesting data for the Chinese government” controversy, why are we worried about that when American social media companies are harvesting our data right here at home. What rational reason do I have to be more afraid of a foreign government than the one I actually live under the power of?

                    ETA: Porkroll Posadist (the one with the arthur clenching fist PFP) made a really good post about this here: https://hexbear.net/comment/3714293

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              Sure, we can joke about this but consider, that if I or anybody I know thought like that we simply wouldn’t discuss politics at all. As that’s something that liberals and fascists also do.

              So you’ve watched enough american media to believe that political memes are something that Russians do, and that they totally destroyed american democracy with those memes? Well, I’ve seen more than my fair share of NAFO and americans online making memes about how non westerners should all be genocided. That won’t keep me from making fun of a fascist like Ron DeSantis with a meme.

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      I dont know for fact, but I treat any political meme like it might. This combined with it not being relevant to the discussion would make me prefer to just not have them at all

      Bro first of all it dont really matter what you want. Second of all it dont think its really healthy to assume any political meme you see is of russian origin lol thats bizarre and incredibly weird