They get recruited. It’s like any other cult. They find vulnerable and minority groups, and claim they support them. A good example is the trans community of the US. A large number of them (on Lemmy) are very very brainwashed by the Chinese tanks, yet they would have the same or fewer rights over there. Call them on that and wait for the explosion.
That and the actual numbers of tankies are far less because they employ bots and alt accounts to inflate their numbers.
Example, countless times have I made a comment that triggered a tankie. Then, out of the blue a dozen other accounts will swoop in to back up the tankie. This is propaganda, manipulation, gaslighting, and whatever other words you like. It’s likely this is all controlled by one person, and not a dozen individuals who were not instructed.
yet they would have the same or fewer rights over there. Call them on that and wait for the explosion.
tbh they would probably just say “we admit that China isn’t perfect”
out of the blue a dozen other accounts will swoop in to back up the tankie
if your comment isn’t at least buried under a chain I don’t find that suspicious. comment engagement is higher across the broad here. i think it’s better we assume it’s a human (cult) so as not to underestimate, and so we engage without losing sight of the biggest thing we have that they often lack—empathy—against their tribalism.
I do think we shouldn’t underestimate their numbers but put it this way, I’ve sent tracking images in private messages under other accounts to multiple users who have commented on mine within a suspicious time frame using identical language, and many, many times it came back with the same IP.
Not just the trans, any of these tankies, talking their woke shit in China or Russia they would end up in a re-education camp or gulag, you better believe it. They are being used, a long palsied arm of russian intelligence.
They get recruited. It’s like any other cult. They find vulnerable and minority groups, and claim they support them. A good example is the trans community of the US. A large number of them (on Lemmy) are very very brainwashed by the Chinese tanks, yet they would have the same or fewer rights over there. Call them on that and wait for the explosion.
That and the actual numbers of tankies are far less because they employ bots and alt accounts to inflate their numbers.
Example, countless times have I made a comment that triggered a tankie. Then, out of the blue a dozen other accounts will swoop in to back up the tankie. This is propaganda, manipulation, gaslighting, and whatever other words you like. It’s likely this is all controlled by one person, and not a dozen individuals who were not instructed.
tbh they would probably just say “we admit that China isn’t perfect”
if your comment isn’t at least buried under a chain I don’t find that suspicious. comment engagement is higher across the broad here. i think it’s better we assume it’s a human (cult) so as not to underestimate, and so we engage without losing sight of the biggest thing we have that they often lack—empathy—against their tribalism.
I do think we shouldn’t underestimate their numbers but put it this way, I’ve sent tracking images in private messages under other accounts to multiple users who have commented on mine within a suspicious time frame using identical language, and many, many times it came back with the same IP.
Depending on the receiving instance, the image caching option being on could explain that completely.
It was a house in Sacramento.
Also, it wasn’t just one time.
they likely used bots to brigade you too, same tactic as right wing bot.
Not just the trans, any of these tankies, talking their woke shit in China or Russia they would end up in a re-education camp or gulag, you better believe it. They are being used, a long palsied arm of russian intelligence.
Haha right
No rights.
You’re right. I was just trying to avoid a dogpile.