This shit has seriously gone on too long. People who continue to cling to the “10,000 dead crushed by tanks hosed i to the gutter” bs are cranks. It’s jews control the banks, chemtrails, the earth is flat, the moon isn’t real level of crank shit and unless you’re feeling very indulgent and someone is asking in good faith it can be dismissed as equally serious to that kind of crank shit.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]English
    50•11 months ago

    If anyone wants a good example of this brainworm freshly-regurgitated by our .World friends: https://lemmy.world/comment/10437862

    Tankies, famous for pretending Tank Man media exists only in the form of one picture. Also one of them says “Peking” for some fucking reason.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]English
      36•11 months ago

      Oh god this entire thread is full of gems

      These people are not socialists. It’s all just right wing agitprop. It’s extremely obvious.

      I assume hexbear is just the russian troll factory.

      I can read Russian and I sometimes read Russian media and it uses almost exactly the same topics for their people. There is a new one that they started to repeat recently and it’s that Zelensky is an illegitimate president, because his term has ened.

      It’s weird that those forums are in English, reading the insane takes and rhetoric. I also noticed many of the accounts are just prolific posters, making the community seem small to me. Also saw an account with a trans flag, which is surprising they would accommodate such a person or such a person would have those weird views on lemmygrad.

      The utility is that they use hexbear and .ml as intro exercises before they promote the trolls to Facebook or reddit.

      Last part is true and even more insane/sad because these people are all terminally online gossip mongers that Pol Pot would have immediately executed.

      You own a computer? You don’t work in the fields? You wear glasses?

      Yep, literally executed.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]English
        11•11 months ago

        There is a new one that they started to repeat recently and it’s that Zelensky is an illegitimate president, because his term has ened.

        Never seen this on here lol. But you’d think these dweebs would be hand wringing about term limits.

        Last part is true and even more insane/sad because these people are all terminally online gossip mongers that Pol Pot would have immediately executed.

        I love this because they somehow concluded we support Pol Pot and not that he was a US/China backed psychopath. They always talk about Pol Pot but they never talk about who kicked his ass and ended his genocide. It just stopped out of magic.

        • CarbonScored [any]English
          5•11 months ago

          The scary concept is the idea that either Facebook or Reddit is a promotion!

          Xi please don’t promote me just leave me as a lowly Hexbear-only peon xi-god-emperor

      • Awoo [she/her]English
        36•11 months ago

        Zelensky is an illegitimate president, because his term has ened.

        Isn’t that like… The basics of how a democratic mandate works?

        Not that I’ve ever seen it as a topic here but still. If Rishi Sunak continues as president PM beyond his term time I’m calling him illegitimate. In fact I’m calling him illegitimate now and forever because we literally never got to vote for the fuck. He has/had no mandate.

        EDIT: Fuck me libs jump to the dumbest conclusions over the smallest shit.

              • Awoo [she/her]English
                16•11 months ago

                Awoo [she/her]

                What’s his excuse?

                Don’t be a dickhead. The pronouns are literally right there in front of your face.

          • Awoo [she/her]English
            16•11 months ago

            Lmao I was running on 36 hours of being awake when I posted that. I currently reside in Woking if you’re wondering, but only for 2 more weeks or I wouldn’t be saying that here lmao.

            Also a mod over on /r/greenandpleasant, probably banned you at least once if this is the kind of conclusion you jump to over stupid shit.

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]English
          11•11 months ago

          Term limits aren’t very indicative of democracy. If someone keeps requesting someone to lead beyond a nominal limit, is it not undemocratic to reject it? I still think a mental/age limit should be in place though.

          • Awoo [she/her]English
            10•11 months ago

            I still think a mental/age limit should be in place though.

            I think any functioning and sensible democracy would not require one. The problem that the US has with geriatrics is a problem of a malfunctioning bourgeoise-democracy. It’s underperforming as a “democracy” even for the bourgeoise because of this.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]OPEnglish
              5•11 months ago

              The us has term limits specifically because what’s his ass kept winning and wasn’t fashy enough.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]English
        22•11 months ago

        Oh yeah, near the bottom some dumbass claims people here think the same of Mao, Pol Pot, and Putin!!

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]OPEnglish
        22•11 months ago

        If anyone still remembered the Brady Bunch I’d make a joke comparing the “Marsha Marsha Marsha!” line to “Russia russia russia!”

        Obsession with a plot!

      • fox [comrade/them]English
        30•11 months ago

        There is a new one that they started to repeat recently and it’s that Zelensky is an illegitimate president, because his term has ened.

        Help me out what’s it called when an elected official doesn’t give up power after their term ends