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

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

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

sans-troll

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 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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[–] [email protected] 99 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

China has immense industrial capacity and a naval shipbuilding capacity that far exceeds anywhere else in the world.

Except weirdly enough, South Korea.

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.

This is dangerous thinking. We shouldn't underestimate the willingness of the US to go to war.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (5 children)

medieval times mentality expansion

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

They see me joustin', they hatin

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

These Crusader Kings 3 DLCs are getting out of hand

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

As they literally crusade in the holy land

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If ww3 happens I will fight

For china

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Never too early

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

if satan is fighting america im on the side of satan

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

I mean, I'm gonna fight in WW3

On the winning side marx-war

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Long live democracy

Helldivers soundin ass

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 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."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

r/Worldnews is /pol/ for liberals

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

/pol/ is /pol/ for liberals tho

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

The last one by Greekomelette is too much data-laughing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Is there a word for the feeling of 'enjoying the anticipation of Schadenfreude'?

I'm picturing the feelings these fascists will feel when the US collapses around them and it feels good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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