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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

Yogthos is a moron he literally posts Chinese propaganda if you ask about Tiananmen Square it's my favorite on the Internet. If you get him to do it check out the link he provides all sources say the exact opposite it's so funny they literally think they can just claim sources and people won't check

edit; https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen/#fn24

this is the link he sent me before

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Yup, did that once then generally ignored them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I got tired of him saying how great a country was at year X, while ignoring what happened at year Y that made the country collapse at year Z.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I wouldn't say he's a moron. He is filthy rich though, his extremely wealthy family fled from Russia to Canada, and naturally it's landed him a pretty cushy job where he doesn't need to do anything. He posts 25-50 times daily, every day, for five years and that's just on Lemmy. He posts on other sites too.

He is the bourgeoisie, and that must drive him mad. Probably explains his oddities

It's a shame Tankies don't have any values they stand upon, oh well, they are all harmless afterall.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

LOL that's wild, it explains so much of his nonsense though, thanks for the context!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And you believed him? With all the nonsense they spout, I'd assume a bit of exaggeration...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

People don't tend to exaggerate something pathetic unless they want sympathy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Or if they want to brag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Well he is a moron and I don't really care what he said. I'm the richest man in the world

[–] possiblylinux127 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's talked about it in detail in one of his posts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don't have a link to it by chance? Would be interesting to read

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They make 50 comments a day and have like 17,000 comments in total. It'd take ages to find it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yean no problem :P hoped you had saved it or something

[–] possiblylinux127 6 points 1 day ago

Ah

So he is pretty much a Russian Oligarch. Actually that checks out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe not a moron, but sad. I dunno why he acts like some rethorical genius when he just evades all points people make him and instead makes up his own strawmen to argue against.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's paid definitely I'm 100% sure he is slinging propaganda intentionally

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You have no idea how stupid a person can be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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I'm guessing they're neudivergent and incredibly misinformed, so they put all of their efforts defending a completely wrong ideology they somehow got stuck on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If they live in burgerland, they probably do. A full third want to dismantle democracy.

That's catchy, we should appropriate that.