If only Democrats wouldn’t have been such jerks

Says the person intentionally antagonizing anyone disagreeing with their horseshit

No one believes you

Yes. Unless you're ignorant.

You are fine with people disagreeing because making people mad makes you giddy. I've suggested therapy and I still do.

No, you are the one making people mad. And since it's a fuck ton of people, you're probably the problem. But I know realizing that would take an ounce of self reflection, which you don't have.

Yeah, there are several ways I think they are violating rules. Copy pasting long walls of text should be an open and shut case of spam, for one.

You might be right that this is all their motivation is, but the timing and singular topic of interest is far too suspicious for me to ignore. I mean they definitely take pleasure in being a deranged hall monitor, though, don't get me wrong.

As for accusing them of being a troll... We are simply discussing a hypothetical user. No one has mentioned any username. No rules broken here!

Yeah I definitely think you are onto something. The audience is much smaller but the advantage is that a lot of people here really are so left they despise Democrats and would probably be easier to convince not to vote than your typical Democratic voter. Trolling campaigns here would have a much more concentrated target audience. They already know they don't need to convince conservatives on mainstream social media.

Yeah I agree with all of this. I do think it's a shame though that the rules are all they will go on. There ought to be some algorithm for determining likelihood of trolling. This dude would definitely be way over the threshold of any such algorithm that was worth a damn.

You're being too generous by thinking they give two shits about third parties. That's just the angle they've chosen for Lemmy.

Your only principle is "if I have to do something, I'll do it, I guess".

rofl

You apparently are pretty confused. "you have to" and "you would" are extremely different phrases, and I never once implied they were similar. Only that you wouldn't need to pretend "the articles are interesting" is your motivation, in a context which implicates you as sketch af, if you weren't sketch af.

You'd simply explain it and avoid thousands of replies telling you how horrible you are. I guess it's possible you're a masochist who likes being insulted, but I think the other explanation is much more likely ;)