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[–] 21 points 4 days ago

Slava Ukraina

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  • [–] 33 points 4 days ago

    Honestly, at some level, this is not a meme

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    too bad it dint target the bot farms, which are deep inside russia.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    fyi, the news story which this meme is premised on turned out to be a hoax.

    none of the claims that there was a measurable drop in inauthentic social media activity as a result of the strikes on yandex datacenters held up when i tried to verify them. one of the graphs supposedly demonstrating it was obviously AI-generated and had dates in the future, while another was a cloudflare graph showing a drop in bot traffic but the bot there was solely yandex's search engine web crawler traffic.

    it's remarkable how many people continue to believe it.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago

    A little critical thinking also helps recognize this as a hoax. The Russian government is smart enough to know any such activity shouldn’t originate from Russian IP addresses. They’re likely using a combination of commercial VPN providers, cloud services like AWS, and potentially botnets to post to social media. (Well, probably not AWS, but there are literally hundreds of smaller cloud providers out there to choose from).

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    But I thought Ukraine were the nazis.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Ukraine? Nazis? That's just Tankie propaganda

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Ukraine is full of Nazis, North Korea has free elections, and 99 other lies tankies tell themselves

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Like Russia isn't imperial and China isn't capitalist.

    It is like they live in a completely different reality. Which is possible, since they are completely digital.

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  • Ukraine is full of Nazis if we use the Russian/tankie definition of Nazi:

    You are a Nazi if you oppose Russia.

    I'm not even joking, that's the general sentiment over there. The idea that Russia could possibly be fascist is an oxymoron.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    This was disputed

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