lol those screenshots which are supposed to be an example of how authoritarian that mod is, and under every ban/comment removal there’s like “Reason: Rule 1,” “Reason: no sources,” or “Reason: spam.”
why are these authoritarian tankies banning people for breaking rules and posting claims with no evidence!? the horror
I had someone do that to me on reddit but it was the wiki page for “Human rights in China” lmao
some hilarious quotes from that thread:
I wouldn’t want to be there right now on either side. But basically the Ukrainians are winning because their artillery is better. Once Ukraine moves their artillery within range of the highway along the Sea of Azov, the troops protecting Crimea will have their supplies threatened. This is the general plan and they’re getting closer.
Russia is rapidly becoming a weak vassal state of China because of Ukraine. If that’s not leverage, I don’t know what is…the war is very stupid for Putin to continue.
All these media outlets trying so hard to avoid calling him a Nazi. “…fought with Nazi unit,” “…fought against the Russians in World War II,” “…belonged to anti-Soviet nationalist group,” and so on. Reminds me of when US news orgs report on police killing someone and they call it an “officer-involved shooting.”
lol this is the type of editing joke you would see in a Naked Gun movie or something. Like Drebin is giving a speech and then it cuts to the audience and he’s sitting there watching the speech while Ed glances at him and then does a double take
Ever since I was younger, like before I was even radicalized, I’ve hated ads so much. There’s something very off-putting (and often insulting) about businesses constantly blasting you with their product or service.
I used to really enjoy watching the NBA but now every time I try it’s just “Here are the Lexus™ Keys to the Game,” “Welcome to the half time show brought to you by Subway™,” ad breaks every two minutes of game time (and even more frequently towards the end of a close game), giant company logos on the court, or more recently logos on their god damned jerseys. It’s like you can’t watch any live event any more without having ads shoved in your face.
Even when I’m watching/listening to something on my phone and an ad interrupts I will straight up mute the volume and physically look away just so I don’t see the ad. I agree with Yogthos that it feels like a “constant psychological assault.” I fucking hate it. Bless whoever invented ad block extensions on browsers because without them I would go insane.
and posted a pic of it on twitter, then deleted it because all his Polish followers were like What the fuck lol
yea I know I just said “onion-ass headline” out loud when I read it
my friend pointed out the person who tweeted that talked about doing it as a joke so it’s just a troll post. looks like it worked though since i’ve seen this pic in like 5 different subreddits and now here lol
It’s a pretty interesting video too. I was expecting it to be sprinkled with some lib takes about the USSR but thankfully didn’t notice any
alright am I crazy or is this not the exact same thing these people were saying last year as winter was approaching?
literally doing the thing in the picture
CHINA’S COVID FAILURE
which country has over a million COVID deaths again?
nature is healing
they also wrote a really bad children’s book about Trump that included a muscular, shirtless Robert Mueller, and when someone commented on it they got really defensive and started posting pics of both of them shirtless with kids. This has remained in my memory because it led to one of the hosts of my favorite podcast having a shirt made that said “MY SON CAN SEE SHIRTLESS MEN” lol
I kinda miss watching these two goofy mfers tweet at each other for their followers like they were in a sitcom
This reminded me of how every few years reddit gets flooded with a ton of those “person from communist country experiences a grocery store in the US” threads. Some of them are so hilariously fake too like no picture/video or anything just some text “my grandpa escaped communism and the first time he walked into a Vons he fell to his knees and wept upon seeing all the pringles flavors” or some shit
not pictured: millions of Ukrainian red army soldiers rolling in their graves
it’s so funny how many examples of these dueling headlines there are lol. it’s like a new meme format