England is a US vassal state and you’re all part of the rebel alliance and traitors! transshork-happy

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    @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.

    • christiansocialist [none/use name]@hexbear.netBannedEnglish
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      2 years ago

      claiming that queer people are faking it is incredibly 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”.

      That’s precisely what a Russian shill would say to try to obfuscate the issue. I would know, I learned about whataboutism and those tactics in my political science 101 class. I only had to take that class because its a required core elective for my STEMlord degree. So back the fuck off TANKIE!

      smuglord

    • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

      Biden: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black”

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • NewLeaf@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      They always have some lame shit like “w * ataboutism” to throw out there. Sometimes the mask slips, and they say something like “well, it’s good that my side is doing it” like that makes sabre rattling and more imperialism ok.

      They can’t be reasoned with. Lord knows I’ve tried to show them sources. I still get destroyed for saying that Hillary literally gave us trump with the pied piper strategy. They also can’t handle the reality of the Mueller report. They’re back to “trump and Putler sat in smoky rooms, twittling their moustaches while plotting to destroy the earth!” There is no logical consistency in liberal ideology. It’s all about keeping the treats flowing.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I have a hard time keeping track when it comes to how powerful Russia is.

    Are they omnipotent techno-gods? They’re controlling even the tiniest websites, and with the mere swish and click of a mouse can decide who the President of the United States is. They’re turbo-evil deities playing 3D chess.

    Are they peasants with no brains? They’re sending millions of people into a human meat grinder armed with shovels, and they don’t know what “tank” or “airplane” are. They’re orcs who are born out of mud holes.

    Something something, parenti, send Xeet.

    • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      They can decide who the president is, except in 2020, because reasons. Obama was also president during the so-called shenanigans of 2016, but he is blameless.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ll be honest, as the FSB Major-General in charge of Operation Hexbear I really let the mighty government of the Russian Federation down when I allowed the troll farm to have several heated arguments about outdoor cats and collective kitchens a couple of years ago before anyone even knew who we were, the whole thing was a terrible waste of valuable intelligence resources and caused some awkward lunch breaks in the Lubyanka. It was touch and go for a while and I’m pretty sure I saw a Spetsnaz execution squad scouting out my dacha in Barvikha. Thank god Prigozhin’s fuck up distracted Putin from the whole thing, I might even get my end of year bonus if we fill our pig poop balls spamming quota!

    Vote Jeremy Corbyn for mayor of London!

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • macabrett@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned from communityEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It’s wild how I never heard the word “kompromat” used until I watched this stupid ass BBC show called “Bodyguard” then suddenly everyone and their 78 year old grandma was saying it

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned from communityEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You don’t even need scientific studies. Mainstream media - including the ones that originally propagated the Russiagate stories - admitted it was largely a ruse.