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Accounts. There are a few to pick from and looking at one is not the entire picture.
Post volume combined with post type is part of the similarity. The intent of your posts also appears the same: It's not about political issues and more about getting attention. After a time, downvotes become a badge of honor, of sorts.
You chose to comment here, and you seem to know what the results would be. You were also able to determine that Lemmy was mostly non-right and you picked a username that was likey to ruffle some feathers at first glance. If you just blindly joined Lemmy without reading any posts, I would be very surprised. (Was your first thought, "OMG! Lefties and die-hard Commies! I'll feel right at home!"? No. I doubt that.)
So, political association isn't my first concern. It's the intent of your posts. It's highly unlikely that you actually read any of the articles you post but pick them based on title alone. At a minimum, you are just a propagandist and in that regard, exactly the same as UM. If you actually read that much bullshit, you rely way too much on media sources for what your opinions should be at the moment.
I can only see one of your +70 article posts from when you created your account due to how I block communities. So, you either are are really into furry porn, or you just make political posts. (TBH, the furry community is much more self-aware than your average political spammer.) It's not really much of a stretch to understand what the majority of your posts are, even though I did catch a few of them when you created your account.
So, I don't really generalize you as conservative. I just put you in the same category as politically toxic, regardless of your political party. I can even make some really good guesses as to how you will reply, if you even choose to reply.
What?!
Read previous sentence.
I still don't get it. What does anything in this thread have to do with furry porn?!
Besides politics, it seems that is a larger block category for me. (The earlier days of Lemmy were a bit different.) So, me not seeing nearly all of your posts on your profile means your posts fall in one of those two categories. I thought it was funny, anyway.
But I haven't posted to any Furry communities, so I still don't get what you are trying to say by bringing furries into it.
And ya know, you can just go ahead and block my name then you won't see ANY of my posts. See how easy that is? :)
Reading comprehension isn't on your list of strengths, is it? Nevermind then. There were better points to focus on instead of trying to understand how I can validate a persons posting content without even seeing it.
But yeah, that is solid advice to implement blocks of people and some communities. It's even better advice when it can be done ahead of time. Now, go all the way to the top of this conversation and see how it's gone full circle, if you want.
It does make me wonder how vulnerable you are to logical fallacies. That would explain your attraction to far-right media as a source of truth, TBH.
I don't care. Feel free to block me. Or keep crying. I don't care. Because I'll keep posting to Lemmy. :)
I am not crying, and you asked questions that I answered? I never said to stop posting on Lemmy?
If you don't want answers, don't ask questions.
That last post was nonsensical, at best.
And you brought up the nonsensical stuff about furries. I still have no idea what you are talking about or even why you are talking about it.
You simply do not understand context, and I haven't been talking about it. It's your fixation now, it seems.
Reading comprehension - the ability to process and understand the meaning of written text
Not my fault you aren't clear when you write something.
If anything is my fault, it's that I didn't use smaller words. Noted.
Still doesn't matter though. Nothing you said makes me change my mind. :)