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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that guy. He spends all day on Lenny pushing pro-Russia and pro-Chinese propaganda. It’s probably his job. I’ve asked him to hook me up with extra work, but no leads yet.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 21 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the famously communist Russian Federation. The RF is nakedly an imperial fascist regime that doesn't even have communist window dressing, it boggles the mind that self-proclaimed communists and anti-imperialists support them.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Careful you'll get banned from .ml for saying that... :)-

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 27 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yogthos is either a fully paid professional propagandist or a highly skilled amateur. Probably the latter.

I'd call him(?) the single worst person of lemmy for the reason that every time he speaks of things that have nothing to do with politics, he seems like an absolutely cool dude. I remember even that in the first weeks of Russia's aggression on Ukraine, he was being kinda somber and realistic about it. But then The Message somehow reached him and he started spouting Russia's propaganda at full blast. He's clearly intelligent and literate while doing this, which is just doubly sad.

In him, Communism has completely ruined a perfectly good person, and it's a tragedy every time it happens.

[–] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao, it's yogthos. Canada's most notorious freedom fighter lmao.

/s.

That dip couldn't find the freedom he is "fighting" for if Marx drew him a map with directions.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 17 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, the reason he's so happy about everything Russia does is that he's a software engineer with over a decade of experience living in Canada, he's living the cozy life and literally never going back to Russia because he's way too soft for that at this point.

That particular post also got me banned from the community. I said something to the tune that I'll agree with the state department on China, North Korea and Russia/Ukraine, but disagree on Cuba and Israel/Palestine, which probably makes me more of a leftist than all those dictator simping tankies. Someone did not like me pointing that out.

You ever point out to those people that Russia and China are very much NOT communist countries nowadays and people only simp for them because it's opposition to American global hegemony... Yeah you'll just get banned. I've been banned from .ml memes AND hexbear memes communities by now.

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 hours ago

Lmao, I blocked him so long ago I forgot about his existence. Now look what you brought there, a forgottenone!

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 hours ago

You're both right.

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