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theres very few spaces of sanity, reddit is filled with unhinged totally not bots posting the same thing over and over and over. wanna share some examples so we dont all collectively go insane?

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 103 points 1 month ago

"Putin wishes he could do this"

"The venezuelan people are celebrating"

"What's to stop Xi from arresting the leadership of Taiwan?"

"Maduro bad, but..."

Most common tropes I have seen today

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

theres so much just random, unprompted decrying of china and taiwan. its truly bizarre and makes it obvious its a campaign, no person sees this and immediately is like 'whatabout china taiwan tho'. if anything the direct thing to call to mind is iraq, libya, afghanistan, vietnam, maybe russia and ukraine.

[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 65 points 1 month ago

Sadly there are legitimately people who seethe about Russia and China 24/7. This is mostly Europeans, who are so brain-broken, so mind-warped, that on their deathbeds, the only thing they'd think is:

"At least Russia won't get to kill me!"

[-] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

This sentiment is also ubiquitous in r/leftist.

[-] Rey_McSriff@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month ago

I checked my small city's subreddit to see about a protest and it was full of US State Department propaganda, really incredible how thoroughly astroturfed the internet is

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago

They finally regained the media control they lost when the Internet became widespread and allowed for much more free and unrestricted communication.

It's more important than ever to go outside and talk to people again. It's the only way that they will never be able to take from us

[-] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Genuinely starting to wonder if covid just broke everyone's brains. It's been total derangement since the lockdowns.

[-] Rey_McSriff@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

This has been my observation with motorists since 2020

[-] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

since the lockdowns ended most of society has just been getting infected over and over by a dangerous disease that literally damages cognitive functioning---and even most communists can't be bothered to even wear a mask

the ongoing pandemic has infinitely more to do with broken brains than the half-assed lockdowns

[-] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People went online in greater numbers than before though, that's just a fact, and it definitely didn't help either. But COVID also isn't helping.

I think the barrage of bourgeois-fascist propaganda via online might have a greater effect just because if brain damage directly caused people to be right wing we'd see people on here becoming more right-wing too. Unless being a leftist prior to brain damage is somehow an inoculation to this phenomenon or something. Like, why is "US shouldn't arrest people outside its borders to steal their oil" harder to understand to a brain damaged person than "US can arrest people outside its borders because Maduro is evil"?

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remember when I was younger and naively thought 'if the internet was more widespread, people would have realized how crazy this is'

I didn't realize that people would be exposed to it and instead think 'nah fuck those people'

[-] DaMummy@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago

"see Putin, this is how you do a special military operation"

[-] Nasalstrip@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

Real. I ended up just blocking Reddit on my phone because it’s a cesspool.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

you seem to be forgetting #bolivianohaygolpe

Nah westerners and even people in LATM have always been like this about Venezuela unfortunately

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Let's make our own bots to counter the imperialist BS? Juche.exe

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

As if it would be a Microsoft compatible file format 😏

[-] TheDeed@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago
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