• CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      Shit like these convinces me it's all bots and interns at Think Tank 6666

      Does anyone have that old study that showed the most active reddit user hotspot was some US military base

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Shit like these convinces me it’s all bots and interns at Think Tank 6666

        Your garden variety westoid can be plenty racist and colonialist on their own though

        • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          tbf that's a pretty small thread, but unsurprising. WorldNews has been hard-right for as long as I can remember. They hate anything that's not white, christian, and European.

          • CTHlurker [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Worldnews kind of oscilates between hard right (whenever middle easterners / africans are involved) and annoying center-right / neoliberal whenever it's about countries where they can't just be racist. In a way they actually function as a pretty good indicator for Americans, since they view themselves as staunch moderates, due to their one or two progressive viewpoints, while also having some far far right opinion on immigration especially.

            • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Idk their threads on anything involving Latin America usually involve the same far-right talking points about race, lack of civility, and drugs.

              • CTHlurker [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Sometimes you get a few people who chalk things up to American imperalism in the region, and the brutal dictatorships most of South America had during the later parts of the Cold War, but those voices are quickly met with "well that was under Regan / Nixon / Republicans, and now we don't do that anymore, so whats their excuse"