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neku wrote

*guy who gets all his opinions from reddit voice* pfft what an idiot

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Moonside wrote

I remember when I was more active on Reddit. I specifically remember there being very clear:

  1. China trolls
  2. Russia trolls and
  3. Israel trolls. Like profiles that spent hours a day on regime apologetics.

Also a post on the official Reddit blog showed that "the most addicted U.S. place" was some town with an air force base so clearly there was some of that too there!

Also some MRA subreddit was helmed by New Hampshire republican legislator. Also the legend of Laurelai the fbi informant.

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neku wrote

i never really noticed non-american trolls because a horde of american morons immediately downvoted anything that remotely differed with US foreign policy

i forgot about laurelai. we spent so much time on discourse on r/lgbt about her and after all that she turned out to be a snitch and an abusive sex pest. we didn't know the half of it

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Moonside wrote

The American morons being such a huge mass was what made them so noticeable to me! It's like finding a hole that's swarming in insects in a wallpaper. Or comments dripping with downvotes, but occasionally they were successful at getting upvoted.

Now I'm not saying they were all definitely state actor related, but at least they were dedicated.