Indeed, one can be authoritarian towards workers and people all around the globe while other can be authoritarian towards their national and foreign capitalists.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

US is in a situation where even the Chinese government can make fun of how undemocratic it is. I think this explains a lot.

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[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just gotta pop in and say: thank you, comrades, for absolutely making my morning by dunking on some capitalists' useful idiots.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

I don’t know what it is about this post in particular, but the threadiverse isn’t sending its best 🤷

Edit to add: Some of them were so angry that they broke out their alt accounts to downvote some more.

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jokes on them, my instance ignores down votes. Lol

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How frequent are alt-downvotes?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yep, used to be very frequent. They're easy to spot because they're either no content accounts, or old accounts, with maybe 1 comment per month. We permaban them as they add nothing of value.

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

old accounts, with maybe 1 comment per month

Isn't that just lurking behaviour?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

If they are, its impossible to distinguish them from the targeted downvote bots ppl have written for lemmy.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Makes sense!

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

They get Rule 4, “No Ads / Spamming,” because they’re spamming votes.

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