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[–] D61@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The USA is such an unserious place with far too much influence on the rest of the world.

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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If a communist calls you deeply unserious, they're basically saying they want to kill you.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

American political discourse is designed to make my mind shrink.

Every part of this is gibberish.

[–] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's textbook anti-intellectualism. It's engrained into every aspect of this society.

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then they'd realize there's some serious issues with the way society is structured and therefore runs, and they'd demand changes, even the most mild of those would make the bourgeois very uncomfortable.

They're gonna be uncomfortable alright...

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, this is like the site tagline that mocks me about how funny it would be if communism happened and I don't get invited. Guys, please, I want to be a part of the communist revolutionisaac-cry

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Right? Nobody told me!

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lmao they're deluded. I wish communism was doing half the shit in the US that these weirdos think it's doing.

Fuck the term "illegal aliens". It's so forced and dehumanising. I only see Americans say it and it makes me cringe every time.

[–] shitholeislander@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

it's crazy how internet-brained the far-right are, they're still obsessively fearful about their accounts getting throttled and shit like that whereas the left seems to have stopped being so fatally online in recent months. when eventually a real revolution happens in the west these people are going to be shocked when the revolutionary terror goes beyond social media and actually comes into their houses and arrests and executes them

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do you think men with guns are at my door

Why do you think I'm being dragged out into the street

Why do you think they're shoving me into a van

Why do you think they're putting a bag over my head

Why do you --

Because we're in a communist

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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

When the revolution comes, it won’t be ~~televised~~ on social media

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First they came for the Twitter accounts, and I did not speak out--
mystery-emote Because cumming is bourgeois decadence and it's not my place to kinkshame

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

This implies edging is revolutionary

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Fuck yeah let's go lets-fucking-go

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait but I thought Elon was based to these freaks? What changed? Does he not control Twitter anymore?

Lol, lmao

[–] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

He paid billions to become the manager to appease a group that's systemically incentivized to yell at the manager

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Why do you think the FBI is infiltrating churches?" I'd like to imagine they do it the same way they used to infiltrate communist groups in the 60/70s. It would be funny to see a church that's just fedposting fedposting fedposting

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagining a pastor who fully knows his congregation is mostly feds but he's just happy the church's numbers are growing for once

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but then the fedposting members start talking to the pastor about the Nephites and Kolob.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

They must mean every other church because feds are Mormons and the only notable criminal case I can think of is Warren Jeffs

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i had to look this bozo up.

she was the WH correspondent for ONA (a formerly obscure far right crank site that trump promoted when he got mad at Fox) during the trump admin, and then went to Newsmax (a more traditional, established far right crank site) when probably the biden team stopped giving OAN access lol. she was fired from Newsmax in 2022, after being suspended by twitter, for serious effort tweeting that the COVID vaccine was a plot by bill gates to do Mark of the Beast-style satanism by implanting bio-luminescent (Luciferase) trackers in people.

last year she tweeted out that the COVID vaccine had caused a meteoric rise in breast cancer for women under 50.

now she hosts a TV show on the Mike Pillow social media site called, no joke, The Absolute Truth. she has tons of other wacked out tweets, but those were kinda my faves.

anyway, before she became a trusted source in news for the kind of people that inject bleach, eat horse paste, and think JFK Jr. is going to materialize from heaven to install Trump as president of earth, Emerald Robinson was an actress with experience in being tall, maintaining an incredible head of blonde hair, and reading prompters well enough to imitate an informercial wonderbra salesperson, an entertainment news anchor, the host of corporate promotional material segments.

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the existence of people like this is an indictment of many of the "prestige" televised news formats, because it's pretty clear that if you have someone attractive, well groomed, and articulate say things on TV, lots of people will believe it. legacy media rested for so long on their exclusive access to technology and platforms that delivered the faces/personalities they chose onto the 1-2 screens people watched. it's one of the reasons the onionTV and "weekend update" works so well, because it uses that simple format we've all normalized to be satirical. who would put a serious person in formal wear in front of a TV to read things in a professional tone if they were FAKE!? it's for true facts only!

anyway, now anybody conventionally attractive with like OBS, $400 worth of equipment, and a personal grooming budget can be on any screen, available 24-7.

in the hell on earth / 30 years war podcast series, Matt said this thing about how the printing press had a destabilizing effect on the defacto monopoly the church had held on the written word and the ability to transmit cultural information, including peoples' conception of the word of god with the bible being translated into languages of the common people but also printing press stories of peasant uprisings spreading quickly. he said it a lot clearer than that, of course. in effect, to see "god's message" or "truth", you no longer had to go to the church. of course, this was limited to people of means communicating with other literate people, but it was still a major shift in power and information distribution, taking centuries to fully unwind.

then he drew the parallel to today, where the internet and its technologies had made gods of us all and one doesn't even need to be all that literate to send or receive their truth to millions.

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She was fired from Newsmax in 2022, after being suspended by twitter, for serious effort tweeting that the COVID vaccine was a plot by bill gates to do Mark of the Beast-style satanism by implanting bio-luminescent (Luciferase) trackers in people.

The sad part is that's not even the most batshit theory I've heard about the vaccine. I have an acquaitance who believes "the jab" turns people into nephilim.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guy who believes in vaccine conspiracies but insists on vaccinating his kids so they can get sports scholarships

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I had a guy in my welding class start to spew off a bunch of 5G bullshit right before the covid lockdowns started happening.

[–] poppy_apocalypse@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

This renegade got fired by fucking Newsmax for lying about Covid. That is wild cat-confused

[–] nelsnelson@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Can we get our our bayonets now?

Thank God, I didn't want to work hard or organize or anything.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As we all know, big business CEOs and the FBI famously support communists and communism

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascists think communism and global capitalism are the same thing. It's one of the defining features of the ideology and it would be funny if it didn't lead to mass death

Communism is when a government does a thing and global capitalism only exists because governments give corporations rights, therefore we've been communist the entire time

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thing is, that's exactly what these people think

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Communism is when capitalists try to increase shareholder profits by putting black people in advertisements and women in videogames.

[–] MarxIsTheOnlyGodIWorship@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the FBI were hanging out at church I might become catholic again just to people watch. I wonder how the Feds would restructure choir

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

These people are delusional lol

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

And nobody invited me? I'm honestly really hurt

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago