that was a lot of bullshit I’m not gonna read.

You crave Lemmy shit of TLDR, "ELI4" reading material, I get it. Very common in April 2025. Anti-learning, anti-understanding, a population of people who think Donald Trump on Truth Social and Twitter is the smartest thing in the whole wide world. Attracted to Elon Musk / Fox News HDTV parroting social media Lemmy content.

Chuckle-head nation, meme nation 2025! USA thinking is "ELI4", "TLDR" Trumpism

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"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee

Fuck off back to Russia you divisive troll

I'm not Russian. My name is Stephen Gutknecht, I was born in Columbus Georgia. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I've been to Milwaukee, the topic of this Lemmy posting. I speak critically of Russia, but you seem to have a style of Lemmy communication I can describe: Your messages here on Lemmy are reactionary, Twitter-length hate-filled "fuck off" messages to Americans, that's what you do here to Americans who call-out Putin's information war on social media systems.

Fuck off

As I said, i was born in Georgia. That's were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is from. Going around on social machines and telling people to "fuck off" is hate messaging, I suggest you study up on what hate does to your brain:

"There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can't see straight when you hate. You can't walk straight when you hate. You can't stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does. You can't see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

you divisive troll

Your Lemmy account is only 2 months old, you show up on days-old post that mention Russia and you start attacking the Americans who are criticizing Russia. Are you describing your own Lemmy messages, psychologically projecting that you are copying "Internet Research Agency" patterns of messages in April 2025 on Lemmy?

Russia-watcher Catherine Fitzpatrick, who documents Kremlin disinformation for InterpreterMag .com, says just as Moscow uses vague Internet laws to encourage self-censorship, trolls inhibit informed debate by using crude dialogue to change "the climate of discussion." "If you show up at The Washington Post or New Republic sites, where there's an article that's critical of Russia, and you see that there are 200 comments that sound like they were written by 12-year-olds, then you just don't bother to comment," she says. "You don't participate. It's a way of just driving discussion away completely," she adds. "Those kinds of tactics are meant to stop democratic debate, and they work."