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
Eh, don’t worry. People like this fight each other at least as much as outsiders. They’ll undo themselves before they can do any real damage.
Pug isn’t even a mod listed on that community.