Is this the right place for this? This is just my own ranting and sour grapes about my own self-involved Lemmy drama situation. If it’s not appropriate, let me know.
Anyway, here’s how to make someone look like an asshole:
- Post something wrong, but also aligned against Israel. In this case, propose that any claim of rape of Israeli civilians on October 7th is a “false account.”
- Wait for people to correct the false claim because they care about the truth. Push back a little. Let things play out as they do.
- Go somewhere else, and report that the person is taking this pro-Israel stance, so clearly they’re a genocide supporting turbolib. Let people agree with you, and let the reputational damage ensue.
This works incredibly well. As far as I can tell, there are users on Lemmy who almost everyone (everyone who cares about this kind of thing) thinks are Israel-supporters just because of skillful repeated use of this tactic. I even specifically told this user that I was aware of what they were doing, and literally just wanted to send them the UN report and then disengage because they were wrong. They still managed to seize on a single word I used and spin it up into this claim that I was “running around citing that UN report” and spin up a little echo chamber of people who are convinced that I’m the turbolib now.
Great stuff
Oh, I’m definitely an asshole. But that doesn’t make what I say untrue. If they feel like they look like an asshole, it’s probably because of something they said, not whatever other people are saying about them.