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can't even engage with these people. they'll ask for sources then ban you for posting them. of course the rules they use to justify it are arbitrary and don't fit. I'm a leftist but I'll never praise authoritarian shitholes with blatant propaganda.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see cowbee i keep scrolling. Dude have no life.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It really is curious, he averages out on like 15-30 comments a day, and that's not even mentioning his hexbear account.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

yea alot of these tankies have have multiple accounts, just in case they get shutdown in any other thread they fire up one of thier ALTS to reinforce thier argument as if they were a different person.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

I got into it with one, and I'm pretty sure he trolled me for months on other non tankie instances until I called him on it a couple of times.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

I have encountered many of their alts, yeah, quite annoying.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And some of that 15 to 30 is like essay-length shit. I can't even reply to some reply i got the morning before it got removed, and dude is always available to defend some foreign country. Super odd.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

The essay-length stuff is copypasta.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have to think they are multiple people right?

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

nah, just some guy