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USA cope. This is literally a pic from a practice session a week ago, team competition hasn't even started yet. by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 87 points 11 months ago

???

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Comm request: the_slop_trough (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It would be like the dunk tank but without rule 8. People don't have to subscribe to it. I will continue not posting to it, but you can feel free to make me a mod. I will be there like an absent father.

Also I don't really know where this post should go, I guess we got rid of the user union at some point.

Bulletins and News Discussion from May 20th to May 26th, 2024 - Never Break TrueAnon's Rules For Life - COTW: Azerbaijan by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago

Biden denounces ICC for ‘outrageous’ implication of equivalence between Israel and Hamas

Agreed, Israel is obviously worse.

Think the stroke made him into literally a caveman by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago

i had no expectations for what a lab meat machine looked like so this really changes nothing for me

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Gave 86 a watch... (spoilers) (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And I don't really understand the point..I guess? Like it's about a group of kids who are part of an oppressed caste of people forced to go to war and fight on behalf of the decadent republic that they are not citizens of. They have a "handler" who sympathizes with them but does nothing but cry. Ostensibly the show seems to be about finding happiness despite your lot in life but I find that really unsatisfactory for a few reasons.

First the world they've established is extreme. The child soldiers are slaves being sent to die as part of a genocide. Second the republic is pretty much demilitarized except for officers who are in charge of the "86ers" who do the fighting. Third the show is about an elite unit and their politically well connected handler. The republic is losing the war that they are sending the 86ers to die in.

To me this seems like a good setup for a show about a revolution, but instead it's a show about accepting that you can't change anything so just try to be happy despite it. I feel like you could get that message across more effectively without making the world so evil. And besides it's not really that interesting of a message. What is the point of making the viewer angry at the world if the characters do nothing? Why do we care about these characters?

Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Social Media - GNET by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago

Data-driven Understanding

Zero data

very good paper, well done

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Nitter is shutting down (nitter.d420.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Annoying because I'm sure people will keep using the xird site and nitter was the only good way to use it. I still won't make an account though.

Bulletins and News Discussion from January 22nd to January 28th, 2024 - Iowa Caucus, Bigger AUKUS? - COTW: New Zealand/Aotearoa by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago

The situation in Yemen is driving me fucking insane. Like why isn't "tell israel to stop" an option here? Why are liberals of the mindset that the Yemenis are not trustworthy? What the fuck?

"I had a raging political argument with my family over Xmas dinner" megathread by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 100 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i had the opposite experience, my family with no coherent political beliefs hates cops and landlords and my dad was like the only time ill drink and drive is to run over cops. also they seem to hate israel.

Pleasently surprised this christmas lmao

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[-] [email protected] 89 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it's all this AIPAC/IDF/etc propaganda. There are billboards out there like "HEY [CITY]! YOU'RE MURDERING JEWS YOU ANTISEMITIC BASTARDS!" -- not exactly those words but they're put up by some Zionist group and they're probably meant to scare local Jewish people into supporting Israel. Then you have like Times of Israel out there concern trolling about protests in the US or EU. The hate crime stats are up but it's probably partly because hate crimes are legitimately up with all this and partly because people are reporting someone writing "Free Palestine" as a hate crime. It's a full court press to melt peoples' brains.

Chinese shipbuilding capacity over 200 times greater than US, Navy intelligence says by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 154 points 2 years ago

wow guys we'd better go to war with the wrold's manufacturing base that is 6500 miles away over an island 50 miles off its coast. This is going to go really well for us I can feel it.

where does this come from? is it literally just wholesale fabrication? what the hell? by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago

It comes from completely ignoring what other people say because you immediately dismiss them as russian or chinese bots without examining their arguments. If they disagree with me, they are a bot. End of thought.

Hope you're all ready for the AI dominated future by flan in c/[email protected]

You can't say you weren't warned, and hearing impairment is no excuse. by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i take all my PTO during hurricane season so I can go city to city looting. They'll never catch me too because I'm from out of state. Hopping on a plane (roads are usually too fucked up after hurricanes) and making my way to a disaster zone to take Pop Pop's miniature train set really gets my blood going.

Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners | CNN by flan in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 97 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sure they are. Remember when Reddit found all those "russian bots" and it turned out to be like 6 accounts with a combined 200 karma?