Are there nuances to the word Zionist? I don’t know enough about the culture in the Levant. If you call someone that, you’re assuming other people know what you’re talking about. I strongly suggest you stay away from labels, but call out what they’re actually doing.

Somebody had the list on an earlier post. Most were in safe districts as well.

You’re talking to a veteran politics user from the bad place. I love that you’re calling your behavior as being “just regular, shitty human nature” as a defense.

It’s not just here in this community, it’s throughout the all page. The fediverse is worrying some people and it’s showing.

I think you’re doing the right thing. The trolls are really stepping up, which is obvious in this thread. I’m trying to share it a lot because if you really read it and understand the process of what they’re doing, you’ll save yourself a lot of time and energy.

“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

https://archive.is/PoUMo

Edit: I forgot to add this part of the thread:

The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,…