Observations I had:
- DEATH TO THE MPLA meme
refers to a clip from the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in which military leader Jonas Savimbi rallies his troops against the MPLA...
it became a meme 3 years ago, and the whole "meme" is having a screenshot of the clip in the middle of random videos... that's the meme, just having a hidden dude that screams death to the MPLA in random videos.
- The Russian sleep experiment, I'm sure most of the people heard of it, basically it was this story of Soviet scientists torturing war prisoners through not making them sleep and using gas on them until they became barely human and were promised freedom if they survived... the story is obviously false and originates from a 2010s creepy pasta post, the story got extremely popularized that it even got made into short films, what makes me believe it's a psyop is that it serves as a counter point to Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay, it's also conveniently called "Russian sleep experiment" and not "Soviet sleep experiment", it's a lie protected by "it's actually made in creepy pasta so it's just a horror story not propaganda".
Considering there's a couple anti-anarchist comments in here, I'd like to call out a line I see too often insinuated if not said explicitly by the non-anarchist left; that there's no left in the West, no party organization of any kind, no hope for one, and the best we can do is anti-imperialist posting since geopolitical tension between AES states and the imperial core is the only real front anyway.
IMO while it's crucial to reject anti-China propaganda, one community member bringing coffee and snacks to a picket line is worth a hundred Zenz debunks on hexbear dot net. I've become a bit frustrated with this side of the left because it moves the conversation to a space where it's nearly impossible to follow it up with action or organize locally around the issues being discussed.