cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/455637

I’ve taken it upon myself to bring the ParentiBot we all know and love from the hellsite reddit to Lemmygrad.

Have you ever been in a situation where the Parenti quote applies? As quotable as Michael Parenti is, people pretty much always mean the same quote. There’s no need to go searching for that quote anymore. Simply mention ParentiBot like this: @ParentiBot@lemmygrad.ml; or use the phrase “Parenti quote” (casing and space between characters doesn’t matter) in your comment or post.

I’m open to suggestions as to how the quote should be formatted. Currently the quote is in its entirety all in one block quote. As much as we tankies love our walls of text, I’ve had an admin express concern that having a bot posting walls of text in comment threads can lead to a worse thread reading experience for the threads the bot appears in, and I can see where they’re coming from.

For the more technically inclined, I invite you to view the source code. It has a copyleft license, as all based software should.

Finally, to admins and moderators, feel free to reach out to me if you need help making a bot. The power of bots has been used for cringe purposes here before, like the mass downvoter, but I’ll gladly help make based bots.

I figure this is an appropriate place to make this too in that the bot is a thing that I made.