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markr , in Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Anti-Defamation League For X’s Lost Ad Revenue

“You made me do it”! yells the abuser. This utter fucknut psychopathic narcissist can’t possibly consider that the lost ad revenue has anything to do with his turning twitter into 4chan.

sndmn ,

Don’t you mean xchan?

drbluefall ,
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I prefer (√-1)chan.

TheRealKuni ,

Isn’t that exclusively for Apple users?

Chickenstalker ,

Lol wat? 4chan is heaps better than twitter. There’s no cults of personality for example (well, there’s Chris Chan and Moot, but both were objects of fun ridicule). Attentin whoring ala twitter will net you a lot of shit too.

Serinus ,

4chan is the single easiest social media to manipulate. You don’t have to have legitimate looking user accounts. You don’t have to post from different places. You don’t even really have to make sense.

You can just spam your narrative as much as you want.

abbotsbury ,
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There’s no cults of personality for example (well, there’s Chris Chan and Moot, but both were objects of fun ridicule).

This just perfectly encapsulates how little you know about 4chan, likely from some outdated youtube opinion piece about how its edgier and cooler than le normie websites

Like, literally use any board for 5 minutes and tell me how many times Chris-chan or moot is being discussed, let alone anything approaching a cult of personality.

5in1k ,

That poor Chris Chan. Driven to madness by asshole 4channers.

whoisearth ,
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Seriously 4chan is chaos but c’mon.

synae , in Oklahoma State Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU
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Well this is terrible news

WhatAmLemmy ,

Religion has taught us you gotta indoctrinate the kids to grow the cult.

The nazi’s started the hitler youth org the 1920’s to perform the same function.

SSX ,
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Though not surprising.

Oklahoma is the only state in America without any blue counties. In the 2020 election, every county was red for every single race. The state sucks and I feel bad for the blue voters in it.

Sir_Kevin , in US says 52 mln air bag inflators should be recalled over rupture threat
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There was a recall for this years ago. I’m surprised it’s still a thing.

atrielienz ,

Arc don’t just make one kind of airbag. Some of their airbags were under recall but it appears that others were not.

FlyingSquid , in Small American towns seeing some success with disbanding police forces
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Our sheriff is a corrupt piece of shit and apathetic people keep voting him in anyway. So this wouldn’t help here.

Maeve ,

My small town’s sheriff is a corrupt, and people vote him in because they know him.

Blackmist , in Trump may have violated copyright law by selling mugshot merchandise

“Never surrender”

Isn’t that exactly what he did in order for that photo to be taken? 🤔

cedarmesa ,
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Its always been his entire schtick. Look at reality, declare the opposite, trailer parks in kentucky erupt into cheers, repeat

tegs_terry ,

He could lamp a nun in the clunge and his people would cheer. The flies have picked a shit; now they like what he does because it’s him rather than liking him because of what he does.

It’s what you get for turning elections into sports matches.

cedarmesa ,
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Thanks for my new username. [email protected]

legios ,
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I wonder if the writers for Galaxy Quest could sue him too! 😀

bobman , in For 30 years, a memorial to Nazi collaborators sat largely unnoticed just outside Philadelphia. Now it’s drawing outrage.

All nazi/confederate monuments should be taken down.

Scotty_Trees ,
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The only place they belong, if any, is in a museum.

Bytemeister ,

Gotta back urinals with something.

nutsack ,

that would be a really boring museum

wallabra ,

You’re thinking about a circus. Not your fault, that’s really where most conservative politicians belong.

Pipoca ,

More confederate monuments were built in 1999 than in 1869. The year with the most confederate monuments built was 1911, 46 years after the end of the war. That’s like as if there were now a sudden spree of building Vietnam War monuments everywhere.

Confederate monuments were overwhelmingly built during the Jim Crow era. The Daughters of the Confederacy built most of them as part of their revisionist lost cause project, trying to write slavery out of the war. Then there was also a lot of them built during the civil rights era, to send a message to civil rights activists.

Sure, it’s worth saving a few of them to put into places like the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, the National Civil Rights Museum, America’s Black Holocaust Museum, or the National Civil War Museum. But there’s many more monuments than appropriate museums for them. Getting rid of the least historically s significant ones isn’t a big issue.

yata ,

This one was only erected 30 years ago. It hardly qualifies for a museum.

SocialMediaRefugee ,

So leave it up because these weren’t Nazis

triplenadir ,
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what in tarnation are you talking about?

The monument, in a Montgomery County community known for its synagogues, is dedicated to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Schutzstaffel — the Nazi military branch often referred to simply as “the SS.”

vacuumflower ,

This particular kind of Nazi collaborators is actually all the rage now, since Western public has found THE conflict of our age in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, immediately conveniently forgetting all other conflicts and genocides going on where every Western power has consistently shat its pants. I’m pleasantly surprised that there is, in fact, outrage at this.

In Russian-speaking (those supposedly liberal) parts of Reddit everybody would be justifying this memorial. Cause most of people you’d consider liberal in Russia and Ukraine are in fact disgusted with Putin etc mostly because of weakness and lack of development and corruption.

Not because of any crimes, plenty of them support ethnic cleansing (say, supporting Russian central government against Chechnya is not cool anymore among them, but for most it was like 10 years ago) and even military aggression (say, Azeri aggression against Artsakh). They just want those things to look cool, and Putin’s empire of decay, theft, incompetence and general despair is not what they’d like to see.

You know, a bit like people from Hungary/Poland/Baltics just love to say that Soviets were “worse than Nazis”, and have that slightly hidden irritation at being reminded that there are Jewish people in the room.

orrk ,

to be fair, the soviets, especially after Stalin took over, were indistinguishable from fascists.

  1. The cult of tradition. soviet iconography literally everywhere
  2. The rejection of modernism. modernism is after all the spawn of the western capitalist.
  3. The cult of action for action’s sake.
  4. Disagreement is treason. off to the gulags with the dissident.
  5. Fear of difference. other than them having created some of the most racist groups in Europe…
  6. Appeal to social frustration.
  7. The obsession with a plot. fucking anti-revolutionary on every corner!
  8. The enemy is both strong and weak. just look at the propaganda.
  9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. second verse, same as the first.
  10. Contempt for the weak. the modern soviet man.
  11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. and sacrifice yourself for the revolution
  12. Machismo and weaponry. have you seen the soviet leaders? or their weaponry on display everywhere?
  13. Selective populism. literally deporting ethnic groups because they might create a contrary populist opinion.
  14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak.

I invite you to fill out the remainder 3, 6, 14

SasquatchBanana ,

And this is why I call tankies fascists. They are just fascists who disguise themselves with socialist populism. And guess what? It is something the Nazis did as well.

vacuumflower ,

Nice to see somebody who likes Eco`s definition, but that’d be circular logic - his Ur-Fascism criteria were a result of optimization based on a selection of axiomatically fascist regimes, Stalin’s explicitly included. (Sorry for this sentence being clumsy)

Also Stalin’s regime became much more fascist in the middle of war and immediately after it. As an attempt to counter the “national liberation” offering of Nazis, with their national legions etc. So all the republics’ anthems are quite pretentious and proud, and Soviet propaganda in the middle of war also turned to nationalism from just revolution and communism and globalism.

About your invitation - well, 3 and 6 are actually not so easy for me. I’d say these were present before Stalin, as in 3 would be basic Bolshevism, and 6 would be basic Marxism. 14 - see my first paragraph, it was (for Orwell) first and foremost inspired by USSR, and while Nazis or Italian fascists also had distinct public language (Klemperer’s Lingua Tertii Imperii comes to mind), they never went as far.

orrk ,

well it’s not circular, it’s definition, for example, the Armenian Genocide fulfills every definition of a genocide, of course this was also the event that defined genocide

vacuumflower ,

Yeah, I meant that it’s a truism, it’s not adding new information. I’m clumsy with words, sorry.

One person (similar for me to the one described as “hell on earth” in the Disco Elysium game) also advised me long ago to read “Homo Ludens” by Johan Huizinga, it approaches (not as the main subject, just in the end a bit, it was written in the 30s) the similarity between various fascist (including Stalin’s) regimes from another direction - sublimation of games, as in imagining and playing and then abandoning games which involve fighting and loss. In addition to manifestations of the 30s noted by the author, one can also look at today’s more militant and generally inhumane societies and see that they have consistent traits in relation to fantasy and sci-fi literature, and fairy tales, and anime and so on, and also that their representatives are often unable to honorably accept defeat in sports.

I feel that there’s truth to that criterion.

dethb0y , in Some small towns in America are disbanding police forces, citing hiring woes

My town didn’t have cops for over three years, and it was totally fine.

Yewb , in Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 counts of felony child abuse

What is this a chatgpt story? There is almost no substance....

Are we really as society going to look at websites like this that are 1% story content? 99% add content that frankly I visually dont even process?

Am I the only one? I literally wouldn't click on an add link even if it was something I want!

comedy ,
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This isn't the entire story, just a snippet that was copied from the full story, which is linked in OP.

blanketswithsmallpox ,
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Yewb

Ahhh AI!!!

-_-

foggy ,

Bro go skim YouTube shorts.

Stock footage, reddit posts, AI voiceover.

It’s making money. It’s a weird era.

agent_flounder ,
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This is why I love pi-hole. I have no idea what you’re talking about. I see no ads on that page.

SomeoneElse ,

The article contains quite a big error too. Her two eldest children are over 18, have moved out and and are estranged from their mother. The eldest daughter actually helped the police, she posted on Instagram (or maybe TikTok) from outside the house when her mother was arrested. Initial reports said two of the children found in the house weren’t hers but I don’t think they’re the other lady’s either, she’s in her late 50 iirc.

Tatters , in US says 52 mln air bag inflators should be recalled over rupture threat

Should this read “52 million air bag inflators”?

SheeEttin ,

The actual article headline does, unless it’s been edited since OP posted it. Reuters uses a British style guide which probably includes that abbreviation.

ciagovv ,

Yes

FlyingSquid , in Some small towns in America are disbanding police forces, citing hiring woes
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But then the only white people who get to shoot black people risk being charged for it!

IchNichtenLichten , in Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack
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“During the sentencing, US district judge Timothy Kelly, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, said the evidence suggested Tarrio was “the ultimate leader” of the seditious conspiracy, “the ultimate person, who organized, who was motivated by revolutionary zeal”.”

theguardian.com/…/proud-boys-jan-6-biden-trump-tr…

I can think of someone else, Judge Kelly. The tangerine nightmare that appointed you.

transmatrix ,

Ugh, right? Really sounds like they set up Tarrio to take the fall for Trump. Fuck that.

donuts ,
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That's the picture they're painting, but unfortunately for them nobody's buying it.

pachrist ,

Unfortunately for us, someone probably will buy it. Somehow, there are millions of people who legitimately think Trump is the freaking Messiah.

donuts ,
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That's very true, but all of their minds were made up about that years ago. I know the average person is fucking stupid as fuck, but I can't help but wonder how many people are still sitting on the fence when it comes to Trump.

CitizenKong ,

Well, in most Western democracies, the really stupid seem to amount to about 10 to 20 percent (rising sadly). Due to a (completely intended) lack of education and decades of propaganda by the right, that amount seems to be about 30 percent in the US. That’s still very much a minority! On the other hand, Hitler only needed about 35 percent of the popular vote to dismantle democracy in Germany (different political system though).

sweetviolentblush ,
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Is it really only 10 to 20 percent? I was thinking closer to 30, but maybe thats my pessimism

Ilovethebomb ,

Nah, there’s a difference between encouraging and actively planning.

Kecessa ,

Funny that you get downvoted like that. Trump wasn’t posting on the Proud Boy’s page to plan the attack, he’s the match that set the gas on fire, he’s not the guy who spread gas all over the living room… He always has the possibility to deny everything and say he didn’t expect them to be dumb enough to actually attack the place because that would be sedition/treason and only an irrational idiot would do that! Where’s this guy organized stuff and put his plan to execution… He’s the irrational idiot…

Atramentous ,

Trump and the people in Trump’s immediate orbit were in direct or very close indirect contact with all of these groups. They knew exactly what was going to happen. In addition to the normal nutty Trump crowds they reached out to these psycho fascist militias and told them to be there to “fight like hell”. People like the Proud Boys know exactly what an invitation and rhetoric like that mean. This was not a rally that got out of hand. This was all planned out and coordinated with other schemes like the false elector scheme and the Georgia phone call. This was deliberate and planned. Trump is an idiot but he knew what he was doing. This has all been documented in the impeachment hearings, the Congressional Jan 6 investigations, and the recent indictments.

bloopernova ,
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Tangerine Nightmare. nice

IchNichtenLichten ,
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helixdaunting ,

Welcome to jaaaaazz club.

iHUNTcriminals ,

I don’t think it was either of them leading. It’s probably organized crime. Also probably why they try to amp up bitcoins… They got drug and trafficked Bitcoin they want to launder easier. Roger Stone, I think, is a closer connection to the real people puppeting these morons. Probably why Robert Kennedy jumped on board with the rightwing nonsense, because the mafia already killed JFK and he’s owned.

But yeah fuck em all.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https…

That’s one evil heartless piece of shit right there. Gang gang.

IchNichtenLichten ,
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I don’t think it was either of them leading. It’s probably organized crime.

Kind of a contradiction, no? If the crime is organized that implies there’s someone doing the organizing, a leader if you will.

davepleasebehave ,

this person is already lost. don’t bother interacting with logic.

FlyingSquid , in Oklahoma State Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU
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Oklahoma kids are fucked when they get to college.

FlyingSquid , in Air Canada apologizes for booting passengers who complained that their seats were smeared with vomit
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Ungrateful people. The vomit was complimentary. They don’t even give you peanuts anymore.

Railing5132 , in Proud Boys leader predicts Trump will pardon him as he bemoans prison food

HEY MEDIA!

Stop. Giving. These. Fuckwits. Attention!

FlowVoid ,

On the contrary, make an example of what happens to insurrectionists.

Railing5132 ,

Oh, I completely agree on that point. But let them fade into the dark where cockroaches belong and stop giving them free advertising for their gofundme accounts!

TrismegistusMx , in US military leaders say Tuberville is aiding US adversaries with hold on military nominations | CNN Politics
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“Helping the communists.”

JFC I swear there’s something in the water making people retarded.

BaroqueInMind ,
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Correct, it's called micro plastics.

kgbbot ,

For his dumbass it’s cte. And he’s a retarted fuck tard.

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