[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did some digging on that figure, and it gets worse lol. Here's the chart for context

Seems to have been originally posted on reddit-logo. I checked the given source for the chart and it's an article on the 10 dictators who killed the most people on a top 10s website that hasn't been updated in 10 years. The article itself has a lot of gems too. It ends with

The moral of the story is: Let’s stop allowing evil political dictators to take office. And if we do have someone bad in office we can find better ways to get them out than murdering them, wars, and aggressive confrontations.

Like c'mon i-cant

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Enrolled in a class on Chinese politics and the first lecture was so unbelievably chock-full of lib talking points. Some that I can recall:

  • calling China a "closed autocracy" and "authoritarian"
  • mentioned that when surveyed, Chinese people rate the level of democracy in their country higher than Americans do for theirs, but with the caveat that they could be under "censorship"
  • showed the "democracy map" that's just this international-community-1 international-community-2 and of course China is lowly rated on the democracy scale
  • showed this chart that was literally like "Stalin and Mao killed more people than Hitler!!!" lenin-dont-laugh

There was also language about how the Core Socialist Values get "hammered" into people's heads in China, which definitely doesn't happen in the free West sans-troll

Might be a long semester if I stay in this course cringe

Edit: class has been dropped kel-bliss

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

yeah I’m skeptical because the sample size is the same 16 people for every person who takes the quiz so it shouldn’t be hard at all to find 16 voters with especially contradictory/surprising views. Maybe they could have had some survey of ~2000 people like this and each iteration of the quiz would consist of some random sample from this?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net to c/electoralism@hexbear.net

Link to the quiz

I got a 10/16. The answers are somehow more incoherent than I thought they would be. What makes a voter this way? Is every liberal democracy like this to some degree?

[CW suicide] truly the epitome of this image

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Looking through the replies just to see this ghoul get dunked on, but the "dunking" consists of Americans whining about how he's "destroying the country" and "letting foreigners in" cringe

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scared scared scared

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

My hypothesis is that this is because they co-opted a lot of the civil rights movement to elevate some vague sense of "nonviolent protest" to the pinnacle of political action. Obviously this applies to more things, but calling your representative is just the peak of lib action.

Everything I say is going to be entirely vibes-based, but I feel like what the education system here taught about civil rights was a lot of "Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and MLK led nonviolent protests and did that one speech and the nonviolent protests were so effective in the marketplace of ideas that we ended racism (oh and btw MLK was a moderate who would agree with Republicans today grillman )." Now libs basically think any action where you make a lot of noise without any material consequences is the best way to create change because everyone's a rational actor who will always choose the good ideas as long as you put the idea out there and "look!! it worked in the 60s!!" Couple this with the belief that we actually live in a democracy where the government will "listen to the people" and you'll get people calling their representatives and sending strongly worded letters

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

If you had shown me a few years ago a story about a corporation that makes its money by making the Evil Machine That Destroys The World That Also Sucks At Its Job and capitalizing on the loneliness and suffering of people who feel they have nowhere else to go, I would have thought its message was a little too in-your-face. Everything about this sucks.

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

Love their album "God's Country." Their music suits their visual aesthetic really well in that it sounds like a regular guy who has been driven completely insane by the oppressive hellscape he finds himself in

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

She got a combo of that Goldberg + 2004 Randy Orton entrance lol

Also holy fuck I didn't realize they were having his memorial service in a whole stadium. Not exactly surprising though

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

This is kinda like the Israeli comedy videos that I had the misfortune of seeing recently where all the “jokes” were just the comedians stating their views. There is no punchline, just someone on stage saying “I love watching Palestinians get hit with missiles” to laughter from the crowd. It’s the same vibe where they’re barely making jokes, they’re just stating how much they want other people to suffer because that’s what they find funny

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

They lost 11-1 after doing this lmao

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 67 points 4 months ago

Has anyone asked Alex Jones if Charlie Kirk was a crisis actor

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packwatch

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[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I was writing up a different reply when I realized that for all the talk by Democrats about "reaching across the aisle" and working on "bipartisan solutions," I don't think I've ever heard of Republicans saying anything similar about working with Democrats. I think this is probably another example of the Democrats and Republicans being functionally the same and rather than "capitulating," the Democrats are just going mask-off about it. It'd be nice if the Democrats at least made it look like they're trying to fight it though.

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