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Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@IndieGoblin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>IndieGoblin</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://starlite.rodeo/@RobotDiver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RobotDiver</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@RegGuy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RegGuy</span></a></span></p><p>Robot Diver:</p><p>would you admit that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trollfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trollfarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psyop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psyop</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> or internationally lies and falsely depicts <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AOC</span></a>'s record to suppress the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>left</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a>?</p><p>if you do, please don't buy that manipulation anymore</p><p>most importantly:</p><p>there is a metric shitton of that lying psyop on AOC coming</p><p>absolutely nobody thinks AOC is perfect</p><p>there is no hero worship here, that's what maga morons do</p><p>understand the game of lies to elicit <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toxicIdealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxicIdealism</span></a> to suppress the vote</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://starlite.rodeo/@RobotDiver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RobotDiver</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@RegGuy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RegGuy</span></a></span> </p><p>i don't really give a shit about these "they're not perfect" takes</p><p>you can find dirt on anyone</p><p>overall, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aoc</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bernieSanders</span></a> are way better than any other credible challenge, and that's what matters</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toxicIdealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxicIdealism</span></a> is a problem in this world</p><p>do not fall for it</p><p>and plenty of it is just a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psyop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psyop</span></a> by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geopolitical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trollfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trollfarm</span></a> to incapacitate your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a></p><p>do not fall for it!</p>
Petra van Cronenburg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>briankrebs</span></a></span> We should <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/REPORT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>REPORT</span></a> these accounts *before* blocking (whatever it may be). That's a protection for others because many accounts are already suspended. As they grow again rather quickly, they seem to be made with automation.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Nicole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nicole</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/troll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>troll</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trollfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trollfarm</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>inthehands</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>StillIRise1963</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.io/@tarheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tarheel</span></a></span></p><p>why i'm posting this now</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/midterms2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>midterms2026</span></a> means enough <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrats</span></a> to stonewall <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p><p>but as the time draws near you will hear the same old whiny lies:</p><p>"both sides the same"</p><p>"corruption is everything"</p><p>"nothing matters"</p><p>"waah waah"</p><p>some of it is real <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toxicidealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxicidealism</span></a></p><p>some of it is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geopolitical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trollfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trollfarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psyop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psyop</span></a></p><p>advertising their fake <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leftist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftist</span></a> bonafides, like an american flag profile on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitter</span></a> injecting a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kremlin</span></a> agenda</p><p>people fall for it</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>last year i had heated arguments with nonvoters</p><p>putting aside <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geopolitical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trollfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trollfarm</span></a> accounts working a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psyop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psyop</span></a>, some of them were real (that's why they work this psyop: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toxicidealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxicidealism</span></a> is real)</p><p>the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrats</span></a> suck</p><p>but the choice matters</p><p>you *build* on it</p><p>you iterate</p><p>you don't expect perfect, then pout when you don't get it</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Midterms2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midterms2026</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a>, motherfuckers</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rmblaber1956" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rmblaber1956</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/@ohmu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ohmu</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Kierkegaanks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kierkegaanks</span></a></span> </p><p>everyone is aware of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geopolitical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trollFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trollFarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psyop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psyop</span></a> on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/farRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farRight</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/West" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>West</span></a></p><p>not many want to admit the troll farm psyop also working the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/farLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farLeft</span></a></p><p>on the right, they amplify <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a></p><p>on the left, they amplify <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alienation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alienation</span></a></p><p>well, i speak from an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> perspective</p><p>in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> you're far more aware of the two prong approach to divide and conquer</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/@ohmu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ohmu</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Kierkegaanks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kierkegaanks</span></a></span> </p><p>some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonvoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonvoters</span></a> are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rightWing</span></a> turds too</p><p>we see the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toxicIdealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxicIdealism</span></a> on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>left</span></a>, the "it's not perfect so i won't <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a>" because we're on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> and in other social silos on the left, which amplifies our impression</p><p>still, it's a lot of people like that, enough to make a difference</p><p>which is why some of these toxic idealism voices we see are just <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geopolitical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trollFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trollFarm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psyop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psyop</span></a>, cosplaying their fake <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leftWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftWing</span></a> bonafides and working hard to suppress the vote on the left</p>
Rasta<p>I hope we will be spared here, but you can see how other Platforms spread propaganda and influence, with multi-accounts, repeated rhymes until they trend.. and then, Republicans will back it. </p><p>REPEATED rhetoric about standing behind the unelected threat to the USA? </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Influencers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Influencers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Muskholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Muskholes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Trolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trolls</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Trollfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trollfarm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Bots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bots</span></a></p>
geographile<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> used to be reasonably good, but mood-wise, it is starting to lean a little bit Twitterward — not xitter, but later stage Twitter. </p><p>Something I have learned there though, more than here, though it&#39;s here a little bit: <br />There are <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/communists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>communists</span></a> and leftists in both places (nbd, I&#39;ve been left of center my whole life and currently lean pretty solidly <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/socialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialist</span></a>), but there, more of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/leftists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>leftists</span></a> seem to think that Putin is somehow okay, that Ukraine sucks because <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a> says it does, or rather that Ukraine is overrun by Nazis, and (less so) some say that getting fussy about the oppression of Tibetans and Uighurs is actively anti-<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>China</span></a>, that we shouldn&#39;t do it because we have also committed human rights violations, and that&#39;s a Chinese government is actually pretty good.</p><p>They don&#39;t show signs of being <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/trollfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trollfarm</span></a> workers, though they might be. I don&#39;t get the sense that they are. They seem to have an edgelordness to them that I don&#39;t see as often on the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fediverse</span></a>. </p><p>It&#39;s ugly either way.</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>this gif is all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> ever was, is, or will be</p><p>people blowing off steam, sometimes in impressive ways</p><p>so go ahead and enjoy yourself</p><p>you can complain and shitpost, of course</p><p>you can get into arguments now and then</p><p>it's all good</p><p>but the primary point should be mirth, enlightenment</p><p>if your primary purpose is to stir up division then either</p><p>1. you're a sadistic edgelord</p><p>you need to rethink your personal issues</p><p>or</p><p>2. you're part of a purposeful <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trollfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trollfarm</span></a> agenda</p><p>we see you</p><p>😤</p>
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