At the same time, easier, in that there is a lot less toxicity and bots targeting the lemmyverse

Like recently, I found a reddit thread that had a pretty obviously racist meme.

It was extremely highly upvoted, but something really felt uncanny about it, because I know racism is ramping up, but this was too blunt to feel natural to me.

Then, so many comments defending the racism were there it was odd.

That’s when I decided to look into the profiles of these comments and 9/10 of them were a year old or less, with very few comments or completely hidden profiles.

It was one of the most blatant bot/troll farm attacks I’ve ever seen and kinda shocked me.

All of there comments seemed very humanly written, but the account ages being all similar was too big a tell for me to think it was organic.

Basically, I think we’re cooked if people keep using centralized websites and or if we dont have a way to figure out what is genuine from what isn’t.

The average person goes with the flow and doesn’t think too hard about things. If through trolls or bots a country, nation state or group of billionaires can change what appears to be public opinion, we’re fucked.

If this tip of the iceberg is already so damming I can’t even imagine how horrible this ring must have been.

Assuming UK cops aren’t as utterly as untrustworthy as north american cops, (which you probably are purely because you don’t always bring around a gun), what are you meant to do with a knife attack? Wack people with a stick? Run away and called for armed backup? I assume the latter, but what about in the immediate?

They cannot.

The republican party is complicit, and supports the evil he does, and more than that, he commands their supporters, so it would be political suicide for them.

Why can’t the democrats? The republicans control all 4 parts of government and even if they had control over the senate, they would need 60% of the votes, a number that is unprecedented in recent times.