I saw that gish gallop thread and kinda wanted to respond but didn’t have the energy. Another mod has zapped it since then. They also got a two week ban, so you won’t be getting the rebuttal you requested.

nothing Liberals love more than getting to be Technically Correct at the same time as acting more Nationalist than your Alex Jones watching uncle. They’ll atomize everything they claim to hold dear – a “free” press, the so called “international community”, even the humanitarian ideals they swear it’s all in service of. The Liberal will crush it all beneath their heel without a second thought, if they think it means they get to be Right while standing up for the good ol’ US of A. Your dyed blue, truly irredeemable Liberal will look you in the eye, smile and laugh and agree with you. Then they’ll go home and draft a letter to the FBI, to feel the flush of patriotism burn within their breast.

I wonder how many of these lemmy instances have a big fed presence. I imagine that since the big reddit exodus a lot of fed accounts were made there too.

I know we like to joke about people being feds, but I do honestly wonder how many of these places have feds actively trying to control the narrative, and how many there are, and how much work is required in doing that. How do they operate? I feel like at some point, they don’t need to do much more than prodding, that the average lemmy lib will say what the feds want them to without and direct influence at all.

I would say that the fed presence here and on lemmygrad is probably much more just keeping quiet tabs on people. We all know not to fall for empty calls to violence or anything else that could incriminate us here, so they probably don’t bother to do that much (not saying they never would, just that they’d probably rather spend their time with the libs elsewhere poisoning the well against us).

Dude i get that the dunk tank isn’t exactly a safe space, but you should probably put a CW for SA on that bottom text.