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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (34 children)

Horseshoe theory is a psyop. It's not a thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    Unsure if edgy sarcasm or ML propaganda... Please disambiguate.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    No more ML propaganda than the idea of horseshoe theory is CIA propaganda.

    Also, ML propaganda? lol

    Are still counting your age using "teen" at the end?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Thanks for disambiguating! :)

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Di nada.

    Also, no reason to use your 25 cent word of the day more than once. No one is impressed twice by its use.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Getting pissy at people for using a polysyllabic word twice isn't coming across as the big own you seem to have been aiming for.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

    You are projecting David.

    I'm far to old to be impressed by a new vocabulary word. Nothing more.

    Sue me.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    Projecting? Projecting what?

    Also, no reason to use your 25 cent word of the day more than once. No one is impressed twice by its use.

    This you?

    I’m far to old to be impressed by a new vocabulary word

    For some of us, disambiguation wasn't a new word, and in particular, I don't think @ExFed@programming.dev was trying to impess you.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Projecting? Projecting what?

    "Getting pissy at people..."

    I wasn't "getting pissy", I was making fun of them. YOU are the one getting pissy, dear boy.

    It sure seems that reading for comprehension isn't anyone elses strong suit here.

    For some of us, disambiguation wasn't a new word, and in particular,

    Oh honey. It was obviously so new for him that he had to use it in two consecutive posts. He was trying for something. The kids always try to impress the adults in the room.

    You'll realize this eventually. Maybe.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm old enough to know that I don't respect someone who tries to make out that anyone who disagrees with them is stupid or a child, particularly when they themselves feel the need to comment on someone using big words too often.

    I wondered whether you had to look it up and it annoyed you, so you went on the attack and defaulted to sneering. But I think it's more likely that you immediately realised that your attempt to belittle them for questioning whether you were serious had backfired spectacularly and they were amused that your response answered the question vividly instead of having the desired effect, and that's what made you try to make them look small.

    You and I have different senses of humour. I find things funny when there's a surprise other meaning or something like that, but you find things funny when you're calling other people dumb. It's just that this time the irony is that you accidentally assumed someone had to pay money to have come across the word disambiguation before today. Again "ooo, swallowed a dictionary, have you?" isn't the 'massive own' playground bullies think it is.

    In case it wasn't clear, I think your sneering responses to disagreement throughout this thread make you sound deeply insecure. Those of us who disagree with you aren't all naïve and teenaged as you like to pretend. Come up with better arguments than that. Marx and Engels were very, very intelligent men and you are doing them a disservice by acting like trump in defence of their ideals.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That's a whole lotta words for nothing.

    Projecting AND covering up for insecurities.

    Nice.

    Good boy.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 8 months ago*

    Again, if you want to come across as wise, you have to come up with more than insults.

    And if you want to rebut my points effectively, you have to come up with something more substantive than that they were a bit lengthy for your taste.

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  • [+] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)
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    Yes. I mean, the only thing they have in common is they are part of the human political spectrum...

    It truly boggles my mind that people don't understand enough about politics and propaganda to realize this.

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    They only have little in common if you're unimaginative.

    Or one of them.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    One day you might look back on this and laugh at all the CIA propaganda you believed was true.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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    If you paid a visit to the CIA website and read through all of the FOIA stuff they admit to you might not be so flippant.

    I mean, you might be, I don't know who pays you...

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Best guess? They're either truly dedicated satirists, gone off the metamodernist deep end into deep post-irony, or they've genuinely decided that modernist Grand Narratives weren't really all that bad (let's just ignore all the atrocities they brought about). After all, far-left modernist narratives aren't at all like those other, far-right modernist narratives! They're different, just like everybody else who is selling a utopia (that's only practically attainable through an authoritarian regime).

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    It's a thing, it's just inaccurate — that doesn't change the hard facts that both sides somehow find their way to differently flavored authoritarianism.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    I mean, it's a thing the way all propaganda is a thing, but it's not just inaccurate it's deliberate because that's how propaganda works.

    that doesn't change the hard facts that both sides somehow find their way to differently flavored authoritarianism

    If you truly believe this you have no concept of what Socialism and/or Communism actually is and have fallen HARD for CIA propaganda.

    Start with the FOIA section of the CIA website before they take it all down and read up on what the actually admit to when it comes to propagandizing US citizens.

    Good luck.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah you'll need to be more accurate than 'start with the FOIA section' — right now I'm laughing at John Mulholland being paid $3k by the CIA to write a fucking 'guide on trickery and deception'.

    Unless you're trying to say I've fallen for propaganda because they're good at sleight of hand, at that point I can just direct my laughter in your direction.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Keep reading. You'll get there eventually. I'm sure you're patient and diligent enough. I have faith in you.

    YOU CAN DO EET!

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Right.

    While I'm doing that, how about you look up burden of proof buddy?

    You'll figure it out. Actually, on second thought, you likely should have already known about this. Which does beg the question 'Why are you acting like you don't?' .

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Bro, I don't know what propaganda you've swallowed. I can't anticipate where your knowledge holes are. You'll have to be thorough on your own dime.

    I'm not getting paid to educate you.

    Frankly, IDGAF what you believe one way or the other, I'm just trying to help you by pointing out the obvious.

    You've fallen for CIA propaganda. Like how you think Communism is bad and don't seem to consider just how many billions of dollars the US spends every year to keep you believing that.

    I'm sure the Fascists in control are happy with you though, so at least you've got that.

    Toodles.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    pointing out the obvious

    By pointing to a set of pages that elaborate on what you mean?

    No, let's examine what you did instead:

    1. you demean me by suggesting I'm simply brainwashed because I disagree with you, further by suggesting I'm uneducated.

    2. you backpedal like a child into 'IDGAF', seriously I had flashbacks to high school debates.

    3. you reiterate that you think I'm somehow brainwashed by the CIA into thinking communism is bad (which isn't even remotely what I said)

    4. you more or less call me a fascist

    I was wrong to communicate with you at all, you are an idiot child.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Look at you pulling out the numbered list like a BIG BOY!

    See, now try to imagine if you put even that much effort into figuring out what other low-hanging CIA propaganda you fell for!!

    You poor thing.

    you are an idiot child.

    So I'm getting that I should just lead with this when I address the clueless like you on Lemmy?

    Would that work better for you?

    I was trying to be nice, but if you require that kind of thing, I'm not yucking anybodies yum.

    You Idiot Child.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    If that's you trying to be nice you need to get some therapy. Great job proving you aren't a child, by the way — with the 'I'm rubber you're glue' argument. Very intelligent, your points are very valid. I'd give you a gold star but I'm fresh out, darn.

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