Quote (Santara @ 18 Apr 2022 17:17)
The underlying point is that he's a troll. Both Russia and China, whose national interests lie in confrontation with the West, are known to operate troll farms. I don't care what his actual nationality is, other than to call it a lie to claim he's an American.
Well he has some very extreme Pro Russia comments, which I have seen since I started visiting these threads. But then again that is his personal opinion. But lets be fair here.
The USA operates a ton of troll farms as well.
Quote (dro94 @ 18 Apr 2022 19:52)
Troll farms, treatment of Uyghur muslims, aggression to Taiwan, helping Russia evade sanctions, etc
The USA operates a ton of Troll farms as well.
Let me give you my experience if I may.
I am quite sure you guys have visited this site or you might not have.
9gag I used to enjoy it very much because it is my main source of meme site. But a couple of years back it started getting extremely Political during the Hong Kong Protests.
9gag is actually based in Hong Kong but I believe they have servers in USA
It was a site created by Chris Chann ( We have common friends) I stay and work in Hong Kong currently.
The Anti Chinese, Anti Indian and Anti Democrat comments were so extreme, perhaps many of you couldn't even imagine. The upvotes on those comments goes into the high hundreds and thousands at period of time.
This is what we call
Memetic Warfare which I know certain actors have been waging for a while.
9gag was very Pro Putin until the Russian invasion. Even after the Crimea Annexation , that particular site not exactly Anti Russia Putin.
Some of the comments are so extreme that they want to genocide the entire Russian race, rape their Children, women and bury them alive ( Japanese Style). It is horrific.
Just because the Government is the aggressor , it doesn't mean the population is.
Just like how the American government have destabilized the world and interfered with change of governments and destroyed countless of lives, it doesn't mean their citizens are just as culpable.
As a matter of fact, I have met a lot of American and I have American friends, and they are some of the most compassionate people in the world, and at times their compassion have failed them because they are being manipulated.
It is extremely easy for kind and compassionate people to be manipulated.
In regards to troll farms in China. Lets be honest, or at least look at my point of view. I do not think the Chinese English proficiency at the moment is good enough to have a decent conversation or flame on predominantly Western social media. That is just my view.