Take this shit for example:
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"In Jacobin, economist Marcie Smith has stated that Sharp's theories are 'ideologically incoherent' and put 'protest movements in a position where they can be easily co-opted' by neoliberal capitalism."

  • JuanGuaido [he/him]
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    reddit is a very good site for advertising if you have need to pay for media coverages. my bank accounts are currently frozen, but they had very good customer service when i was paying them for positive posts about my interim presidency por Venezuela. I believe everyone should know they are a good business. my only complaint is that they expelled us chapos. it is not right.

    this new site chapo.chat is not good for advertising. I tried to buy positive posts for my interim vice-presidency de los Estados Unidos from "Beatnik" and also "TransComrade69" and also "ScreamoBMO" and also "Gorn". All of them said to me "no" or did not respond, except Beatnik who sent me the very stressful image of pig pooping and also "no Juan". I do not understand why this site exists if not to provide positive posts for those who pay? I like chapo.chat, but it does not seem they understand tech business.

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        I am not sure what you mean? I was very excited to register my first and last name on "chapo.chat". the subreddit was one of the only place i found comfort after my attempted run por el presidente de Venezuela.

        I saw the many images made about me and i said to myself "Juan, even though estas son chistes, you are recognized by the people". I am also a democratic socialist ("Social Democrat" en Venezuela), entonces soy un izquierdista también. I consider myself "un chapo", even though I am very tall.

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      @Beatnik - do you need an interim leader of ads for chapochat? there are no ads on your site and there could be many ads such as for exonmobile, mcdonalds, or even other websites.

      edit: some ads could perhaps be like this one for Hyundai. It is reason my wife bought us this brand of car. I have wished many times she had insisted on any other brand of car.

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          your website is very broken I think? the last link took me to another image of a pig pooping.

      • JuanGuaido [he/him]
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        your website is very broken I think because that link took me to another image of a pig pooping.

      • JuanGuaido [he/him]
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        you do very good job as mod, pero very bad job as advertiser. thank you for the response, this is nicer than the pig pooping image beatnik sent me.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      That's why I like Citations Needed so much. Listening to them has really honed my bullshit detector.

      • RedArmor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I’ve listened to one episode before. Any recommendations?

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Oh boy, they're all really great for the various aspects of media bullshit they cover but here's a few:

          https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-25-the-banality-of-cia-curated-definitions-of-democracy

          https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=homelessness

          https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-91-its-time-to-retire-the-term-middle-class

          • RedArmor [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            First thing I saw was the cia in the link and my eyes started glowing red

            • Nakoichi [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              Oh yeah same with the fact-checker one

              https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-83-the-unchecked-conservative-ideology-of-us-medias-fact-check-verticals

              Really everyone that considers themselves a leftist needs to just listen to all of them.

  • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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    Every single post about Alex Morse from the past week, regardless of what sub it was on, was aggressively downvoted to prevent it from reaching the front page.

    Correct the record from 2016 is back for sure.

      • Uncle [he/him]
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        The Democrats organized a string on a gay progressive politician. They had people matching him on Grindr to try and get embarrassing messages to leak. Just, classic 60s style homophobia.

      • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        His opponent is arguably the most important corporate dem in the house, and as chairman of the ways and means committee is their biggest fundraiser.

  • ami [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    gonna be honest with you I haven't looked at reddit for more than a thirty second casual glance at the main page since chapo was banned. The neolib brain worms and the casual racism/transphobia got to be too much. I guess it helps I also bought a switch and have been playing all the games I missed in the last 5 years __

      • ami [they/them,he/him]
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        Yeah! That was the first game I bought and even tho I beat it weeks ago I've been playing it non stop just wandering around finding temples and just scoping out the world. I don't have internet to download the dlc. Am I missing much? I think the next couple of games on my list are spirt of the north, undertale, and ni no kuni. Really dig that there's so many 2d rpg type games on here since those were always my favorites.

        • Phish [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          You're not missing anything crucial. The main game has more than enough content to keep you busy. I do really like the motorbike you get from one of the DLC packs but it's better to travel by horse while you play the main campaign. Feels more like the intended experience.

        • AntiVolcelAktion [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          if you have an old enough switch just hack it and pirate your games as Marx intended. it's awesome, especially the custom firmware.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Know what's worse than astroturf? That there can be people who actually believe that shit.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        Heinrich Harrer (later revealed to have been a sergeant in Hitler’s SS) wrote a bestseller about his experiences in Tibet that was made into a popular Hollywood movie. He reported that the Tibetans who resisted the Chinese “were predominantly nobles, semi-nobles and lamas; they were punished by being made to perform the lowliest tasks, such as laboring on roads and bridges. They were further humiliated by being made to clean up the city before the tourists arrived.” They also had to live in a camp originally reserved for beggars and vagrants--all of which Harrer treats as sure evidence of the dreadful nature of the Chinese occupation.

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Oh wow, the Belarussian turmoil instantly resembled a color revolution, but since I avoid those threads I wasn't aware the puppet accounts were literally spreading his writings.

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        https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/

        I still don't know how this thread happened in that sub. The comments are overwhelmingly skeptical of the US's official China narrative.

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        worldnews and news it very much depends on the thread but there's always a bipartisan consensus for imperialism and regime change ops

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Haven't really gone on there except to look at MMA clips and shit since the chapo sub was banned. Makes sense though, the people running that site seemingly just want it to be an advertising space for products, services, and status-quo neolib ideology.

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    4 years ago

    im really curious what's going to come out of all the astroturfing. there has to be a saturation point where most of the post in a thread are astroturfed, the views are astroturfed and whatever services monitoring things are just getting entirely fake data.

    there really would be no limit to it since you can both launch the attacks yourself and then offer astroturfing as a solution to improve the reputation of your victim\customer. then you can also fake the metrics on whether any of this shit is working. it really is some matrix shit.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah r/politics is insufferable and oviously manipulated, there is now way you can tell me getting 20 downvotes in 2 minutes is organic and not obvious bots lol

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah its pretty bad. I was surprised to see quite a bit of pushback on a post about China the other day calling out RFA and Zenz but that thread about Belarus was garbage.