I suspect that the majority of the population outside of Lemmy would consider shouting "Long Live Chairman Mao" while murdering someone, to be a negative quality.
skisnow
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Yeah, I immediately suspected it sounded just a bit too "Anti-capitalists are all communists and murderers" as a headline.
Thanks for that. It looks from that like a relevant detail OOP missed out is that these thing (purportedly) claim to produce as much oxygen as 15 trees, which isn't nothing.
Came here to post the exact same thing
Yes, what the Democrats need to do is to keep shifting to the right.
/s
I think the problem is putting them in those dumb tanks where a tree would be, as if to say "do this instead". The principle would be fine if they got a bit more creative with it and played to its strengths, e.g. if you make a train platform out of it, or the railings of an overpass, or the external wall panels of buildings etc.
Ofc OOP didn't actually provide a source so we've no idea what the creators were actually thinking...
Russia are every bit as active in leftist groups whipping them up into a frenzy too. There was even a case during BLM where the same Russian troll farm organised both a protest and its counter-protest. Don't think you're immune to being manipulated to serve Russia's long-term interests just because you're not a conservative.
They don't care about promoting right-wing views, they care about sowing division. They support Trump because Trump sows division. Their long-term goal is to break American hegemony.
Yeah I was thinking exactly this.
It's easy to point to reasons why this study was unethical, but the ugly truth is that bad actors all over the world are performing trials exactly like this all the time - do we really want the only people who know how this kind of manipulation works to be state psyop agencies, SEO bros, and astroturfing agencies working for oil/arms/religion lobbyists?
Seems like it's much better long term to have all these tricks out in the open so we know what we're dealing with, because they're happening whether it gets published or not.
Read the article.
A common theme of MAGA is inventing problems that they can solve.
The idea that Christianity in the US is under threat and needs additional protections, is some epic persecution complex.
As a European watching the news, sometimes I have to remind myself that lots of other countries also go to shit from time to time, it just doesn't get reported on as much. We get a massively disproportionate amount of reporting from the US as a result of how the English-speaking internet works.
In fact even writing this I just noticed the sidebar's description of the community I'm posting in, guess I should probably just block it (no offence).
A line obscures the thing it's trying to explain. Visually noisy, hard to read.