“Hungary, strong country. Run by a very powerful, tough leader. He’s a tough guy. The press doesn’t like him because he’s tough. Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, very tough man,” Trump said in his speech.
This almost gave me a brain aneurysm. It’s like the orange doofus takes two words and scrambles it in a random sequence of sentences while being incapable of adding extra information.
But even if he actually was tough, it’s pretty horrible that Trump thinks that “tough” and “good leader” are the same thing. Pol Pot was tough. He was a guerilla fighter in his youth. He ruled with an iron fist and killed up to 2 million people. That would be “tough” from a Trump perspective. He would tout Pol Pot’s strong leadership.
Politico Europe - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for Politico Europe:
> MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - Germany
> Wikipedia about this source
Because the information is quite badly sourced in some ways and includes a lot of caveats. And the moderators of the subreddit have not added said caveats to the bot message.
There are some who say it’s biased itself. I have not investigated it further.
All bots are annoying. They take screen real estate and lures me into otherwise empty comment sections. I should block it, but I haven’t, because it is sometimes useful.
It might be better if it only posted when summoned by someone.
Maybe Lemmy could support bot posts a bit more organically, so they could be excluded from comment counts, or given a dedicated section. Eg. there could be a way to add this info to all community posts automatically.
TBH this whole bot thing seems like a Reddit holdover where people had no control over the platform.
Nobody likes being told they and their favorite sources are biased, they think they’re the only ones who can see clearly and it’s everyone else who is biased.
Personally, I like the bots but I want their messages below the human messages. And since voting scores mean next to nothing in lemmy, there’s no harm.