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I truly love the idea that the reason Americans hate communism is their rigorous study of USSR and China.

It was just a temporary ban if I remember correctly. For more context, https://lemmygrad.ml/post/656428

Wow, it is a sad state, where every single comment of his has negative score, except the ones where he calls Russians orcs…

Here in the Czech Republic, almost nothing. Only a few stories about overthrowing of “democratically” elected president, and few comments from French. No one seems to care.

As someone mentioned, there is DS9 and even Voyager. For me, I couldn't even finish watching the first episode. It just didn't seem like Star Trek to me. It had more of a Star Trek movies (new ones) vibe, and I just couldn't stand it.

And the whole “Russian/Chinese bots” things falls pretty flat when most of our conversations are amongst ourselves as well. Why would China/Russia pay/program all these bots just to simulate conversation in the hope that some random US liberal will stumble upon a 3 week old conversation, start an argument and then get an angry response? Seems like a poor use of their time.

I mean, I've literally seen someone argue that Dessalines is being threatened with murder by CPC. I wouldn't put it past them.

I think that if there is one person here that I understand losing their temperament, it would be you. Reading the endless threads on lemmy I always wonder how you don't lose your mind arguing with some people.

I agree, what I wanted to say with that is that if someone from other lemmy instances come here even with our reputation, there is a good chance that it is someone who is actually interested in what we have to say.

Yes, in this case it did work. But I wanted to use it as an example of someone who was originally met with a more hostile response, even if it wasn't warranted. Personally, if I was in his place, I would just not want to engage with us anymore. I don't want to say with this post that we are terrible etc. but at least in my opinion people who actually come here from another instances and are not trolls are prime target for education. That is the reason I think we should try to be more kind to them.

We get a huge volume of bad-faith interaction here. Especially when you sort by “new comments”.

Interesting, I rarely see that, apart from obligatory "China bad", "Russia putler" etc. under some news articles. But maybe that is just due to the posts I read.

I agree that is not a huge problem and yes it is mostly not so harmful. I was not trying to suggest with this post that we are super terrible etc. Mostly I just wanted to say that I think we could be a bit better. In my opinion, these people are the prime target for educating. Overall, from what I've seen Lemmygrad has a pretty bad reputation on most Lemmy instances so if someone ventures here and is not a troll, I think we should try to be kind to them.

See our other thread https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1166824

How are you making the distinction between trolls and good faith participation?

Sometimes it is hard to tell, and I do understand that it is easy to make mistakes, but we should still try to assume that not everyone is here just to troll.

Can you share an example from your post history where you’ve patiently educated an account seemingly engaging in bad faith?

Personally, the only example I can give of my post is this https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/438417, but I don't post here that much. But I think that a much better example of this is: https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1165246 Here, even if you disagree with the original statement, I would argue that someone was met with too hostile response and seems to have changed his mind after he was shown proof that he was wrong. I do agree that sometimes it is hard to not just make fun of people, especially with Uighurs and China in general, but we shouldn't automatically assume bad intentions.