This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion.

I’m not even talking about necessarily in this community directly, however in a lot of other spaces I’ve noticed a lot of accounts using divisive language and terms like “The ineffectual left” “single issue voters” “ignorant right wing morons”. Lots of straw man arguments, lots of willful ignorance.

I’m not a centrist, I’m very very very far left however I know well enough not to patently dismiss the talking points of others, outside of course calls to genocide. I know what dog whistles sound like, and I’m hearing a lot of them lately.

Most egregiously I’m seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.

So I guess my question is, how’re we all fairing with what might be the largest Turing test ever?

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    Criticising him? No.

    Criticising him and going “I’m not gonna vote for genocide Joe”?

    Yes.

    If you were Putin, you’d do everything in your power to see Trump elected. And if you pretend Russian troll factories don’t exist then we know you’re in one.

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      2 months ago

      Just look at my comments downvotes. It really is about people being angry at others criticizing biden.

      I did not mention anything about voting btw just to be clear. I just don’t like the left behaving like the right. People should be free to criticize any leader. Just because orange man can do it worse doesn’t mean you should let biden run around doing anything he wants. We should demand for people’s best interests and well being.