• OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world
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    There are 20 Israel stories to every 1 Ukraine story on Lemmy.

    Regardless of your opinion on the matter, this platform is being heavily astroturfed, and so are many other “liberal” platforms. It’s actually way worse here than on Reddit.

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        CTH was kicked out for saying “John Brown was right actually, killing slavers is good” and made an example of, along with thedonald way after it had been abandoned. Full “antifa is as bad as fascists” garbage but it’s what the shareholders want.

        And it wasn’t all tankies, there were a lot of LateStageCapitalism refugees that git kicked because LSC was just straight tankie. I got kicked for suggesting that North Korea isn’t good just because the West says it’s bad.

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      Of course there are, and I probably post 3 of the 20.

      Other than the alt-right, you’re not going to find any support for Russia in the West.

      Why would we need to raise awareness and keep posting about Ukraine to the same level as Palestine?

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        Bruh I literally got banned from .ml twice just for mentioning the fact that Russia shot down a civilian airliner in Ukraine. You are completely delusional if you don’t see that a significant portion of these idiots are up Putin’s ass.

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          You absolute little liar.

          the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the public.

          I am a real person, with an ethical obligation to stand up against genocide. There is no deception, I am a member of the public, and what I am doing is called activism (or slacktivism for the pessimists in the world).

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            So, you admit that you are flooding this platform to deliberately present one story as more dominant in the news cycle than others in order to misrepresent its relevancy to current events?

            You can argue definitions and semantics all day, but that is what you’re doing - and it’s dishonest at best.

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              You are saying posting on aggregate media sites is dishonest?

              That is just ridiculous.

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      we’re also numb to what’s happening in ukraine. people got tired around when it hit the one year mark

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          i mean westerners. it’s been very frustrating because it means i have to find out what’s going on by seeking firsthand perspectives because journalistic fervor is guided by what will sell ads. my bet is sometime around october seventh people start tuning out again because the novelty will have worn off. i’d love to be wrong, but every single outrage decays as we mistake novelty for news