update: trans people are too attractive for beauty contests, too smart to play chess, too strong, tall, and fast to be a professional athlete, always have the moral high ground, can cause floods, alter the environment of the planet single handedly, and can kill god.

It's wild that the liberal take from 2016 is that Russian disinformation is the only reason people oppose democrats.

If only someone did a study to see how valid that was. If only. But I guess we'll never know. For some reason this text is clickable. Can't figure out why, but its definitely not because it's a link to a study about this very subject.

EDIT: I accidentally clicked on the text and quoted it

We demonstrate, first, that exposure to Russian disinformation accounts was heavily concentrated: only 1% of users accounted for 70% of exposures. Second, exposure was concentrated among users who strongly identified as Republicans. Third, exposure to the Russian influence campaign was eclipsed by content from domestic news media and politicians. Finally, we find no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.

I have one tankie trying to unironically argue with me that the UK is a vassal state to the Us Empire

Noo! We used to rule the waves we cannot be a vassal noooooo!

Like the he's the rebel alliance that is bringing down the evil empire with lemmy shitposting

Please read even a single book that isn't Harry Potter Im begging you.

i mean its basic historical knowledge that U.K. lost much of its power to the U.S. after WW2

@geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de claiming that queer people are faking it is incredibly uncool and offensive. Stop doing it. You would not claim that a black man isn't really black because he says something you disagree with because you'd get knocked the hell out. Don't claim people's identities are fake because our politics are to the left of yours. You're literally just abusing other lgbt people with that sentiment by essentially stating "unless your politics align with mine I will deny you the right to your gender".

@oatscoop@midwest.social blahaj.zone did defend a transphobe, refusing to demod a person engaging in transphobia because they didn't want to rock the boat and lose the activity of that community definitely unsafe for trans people. They make decisions in favour of activity over trans safety. Being trans or having a shork aesthetic is literally irrelevant to whether they make good decisions for trans people, you wouldn't claim that Caitlyn Jenner is automatically safe for trans people by virtue of being trans, and if you would then you're an idiot because she'd sacrifice trans lives for her wealth any day of the week.

you're all part of the rebel alliance

It's over Lemmy.world! I have the high ground!

Somebody explain to this "oatscoop" dingus what a chaser is

Seriously, we defedded from them because they (among other things) did not ban people for making threads about which surgeries make trans men undateable to them. I saw the thread where they discussed our callout of that, 90% of the posts started with "cis person here" and several immediately went into creeper territory and started discussing girldick (without any actual knowledge how a pre-OP trans woman's dick works, ofc). Blahajzone isn't a trans instance anymore, it has largely been taken over by insufferable cissie redditors when they accepted the r/196 lifeboat that ended up turning into 3/4 of their userbase and i pitty every trans person still holding out there.

I just genuinely do not understand how these fucking rubes seem to genuinely believe that Russia is somehow alone or uniquely powerful in terms of online propaganda or influence campaigns. Like I just want to sit down with these people face to face and try and see if they've even considered for one fucking second the idea that maybe literally every single national and private interest that exists, including their own country and corporations in it, are broadcasting propaganda online at a constant 24 hour basis.

Alt-right, far left -- basically everything but Liberals and respectable Republicans like Mark Rubio is a Russian psy-op! You can't get more left wing than me, a neo-con!

Seriously, though, the Russian government does not care what any of us think. General sentiment has no baring on US policy, why would you waste resources influencing it? The "alt-right" ascended to the "mainstream right" in America because young alt-right posters got jobs working for Republican campaigns. That happened on its own, nobody forced the RNC to give them jobs. Stop blaming our stupid stupid politics on some scary computer boogeyman an ocean away.

I just realized we no longer have the Moscow time on the side bar. How am I supposed to know when to take my break from shilling for Putler?

Gee I wonder why they'd say the blahaj instance wasn't safe for trans people??? Welp better keep reinforcing my priors instead of looking into it

YOU'RE JUST BEING MANIPULATED INTO HATING THE CAPITALISTS SUCKING YOU DRY

MANIPULATED BY ENEMY BADCOUNTRY SADDAM RUSSIA

JUST LIKE THE FASCISTS MUST HAVE BEEN I GUESS

EVERYTHING IS RUSSIA

RUSSIA SHIT MY PANTS

the admin of blahaj zone literally did fail at removing transphobia & created an environment that allowed chasers to prey on trans people. that’s, like, why we defederated…

Little do they know that the US and the UK are really just vassal states of Norway.

trans-friendly is when ikea shark plushie

Liberals: "Russia is losing 500,000 men every day due to Zelensky's large muscles. Putin's nukes are CGI, also uranium and radiation isn't that big of a deal anyway. They have no guns and must use muskets from the 1600s."

Also liberals: "Russia is conducting a massive psyop on a random, small, and irrelevant website that has existed several years before most of us because....."

the UK's nuclear weapons are entirely dependent on the USA

https://cnduk.org/resources/trident-us-connection/