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My fave part is the section of the bill that exempts it from FOIA requests...democracy...

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 94 points 6 months ago (4 children)

R/Worldnews is the single most propogandized place on the entire internet.

While the rest of reddit was circulating the un report about how the people in the mass graves had their hands cuffed, the top post in worldnews was a press relief from the idf saying they didn't kill anybody.

The top comment was "well in the modern age this should be easy to prove" with half a dozen "removed" comments right under it.

[–] davel@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

r/neoliberal gives r/worldnews a run for their money.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 50 points 6 months ago

Difference is, everyone in r/neoliberal are already full on ghouls without a shred of humanity. r/worldnews is on the front page of Reddit with millions of normies stumbling into it

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That subreddit was literally started by a fossil fuel lobbying organisation wasn't it?

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[–] Bakzik@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

Oh, r/worldnews. The Eglin Air Force Base favorite sub.

sans-troll

[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

It is basically just r/CIAShitPosting, I mean there is no doubt it is fed run right? It is so inorganic

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well wasn't it proven one of the mods was Ghislaine Maxwell?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

there's a pretty good wad of circumstantial evidence that u/maxwellhill is her, but admittedly nothing concrete

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 85 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The tankies sure are coping and seething rn

We're definitely not laughing at the decline and collapse of the US.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah us tankies hate it when the imperial core pisses off the rest of the world and unites them into a de facto anti-imperialist bloc. Noooo don’t do that!

Do these gloating warmonger idiots even for a second stop to think if their glorious empire could take on China, Iran and Russia simultaneously? This is a war they could never hope to win yet they are eagerly cheerleading it on. Literal death drive.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The US would have no chance. Russia alone can outproduce all of the imperial west in artillery shells by multiples. China has immense industrial capacity and a naval shipbuilding capacity that far exceeds anywhere else in the world. Both countries have access to fleet-ruining hypersonic missiles.

If China decides to reassert its sovereignty over Taiwan, the choice will be let China do it and do business with them as normal or blow up the entire world economy for years if not decades. The loss of shareholder value will be so massive in the latter that I'd have to assume the US would just let it happen.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Agreed. NATO can't even beat Russia alone, and China, when stirred, will make Russia look like a minor power.

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[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 67 points 6 months ago

That last comment came to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons. No, we won’t fight for your imperialist world war you fucking fascists freaks

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 57 points 6 months ago (4 children)

medieval times mentality expansion

[–] buh@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago (2 children)

liberals fear a world where you can drink beer out of a stein while watching people joust

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

These peoples minds would explode if they ever visited a Chinese city. They are 100 years in the future, not in the past

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

They view China the way that 19th century colonialists viewed Africa.

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

They see me joustin', they hatin

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

These Crusader Kings 3 DLCs are getting out of hand

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

As they literally crusade in the holy land

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 54 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If ww3 happens I will fight

For china

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Never too early

[–] Waldoz53@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

if satan is fighting america im on the side of satan

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

I don't think the PLA is going to let you in, but otoh Vietnam demonstrated there are other options

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 51 points 6 months ago

I mean, I'm gonna fight in WW3

On the winning side marx-war

[–] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Long live democracy

Helldivers soundin ass

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

I couldn't read that as anything other than sarcasm and then realized it wasn't

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The previous generation fought against an aggressive fascist ethnostate regime that was quite literally rounding up people and gassing them en masse, while actively going to war with arguably the world's most influential worker movement in all history. marx-guns-blazing

Today's generation probably won't even fight this country that like.. is.. foreign! And it does stuff that weakens the hegemony of the fascist ethnostate-allied west! And uh.. biden-forgor

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

What the fuck are we coping about? I don't fucking like America. It's that simple. Is there some context that would change my opinion? I doubt it.

Edit: I see now. The cope that they wanted, "it's worse than a waste of money because it's meaningless and it's being used to kill innocents like Palestinians who are suffering under an apartheid regime."

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

its their way to internalize the contradiction

when its glaring enough then dont focus on the contradiction instead focus on how your ideological opponents will point it out and the hate you feel towards them. then you dont have to address the elephant in the room

i fucking hate to invoke orwell because libs love him but this not even the kind of thing he wrote about... he explicitly wrote about this exact thing

[–] BrezhnevsEyebrows@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

They think that "pissing off" foreign governments is a huge accomplishment because they're redditors

[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

Rich that a country where most of the population doesn’t believe in its own democracy is the one spreading “democracy” through military force

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

r/worldnews is home to nothing but wonder-who-thats-for ass people

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

r/Worldnews is /pol/ for liberals

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

/pol/ is /pol/ for liberals tho

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the subreddit that officially made me delete my Reddit account.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

i got banned from that sub and it was a favor to me and my mental wellbeing tbh

now i just browse the advice reddits for the drama and sometimes i read them outloud to my partner while she plays animal crossing and we laugh or cringe its a good time

its the only good thing reddit is for is gawking at the misfortune of the liberals who exist there

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

I got banned from there years before I finally left Reddit, for telling a Nazi to kill themselves.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

These people are so overly dramatic and the embodiment of the 🤓 emoji. I can imagine these people being dropped off at Compton and hyperventilating at the sight of every non-white person walking by.

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

I've stopped arguing with with people now and anyone with a bad take I just say 🤓 and move on

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

The last one by Greekomelette is too much data-laughing

[–] robinnn@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

also, America is apparently some kind of evil bird? Only evil birds do fell swoops

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

it's like the rest of reddit only even more ridiculous

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Tankie cope is when Western imperialist funnel more billions to further wars.

Sir yes sir, tankies owned sir 🫡

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