• FidelCastro [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I doubt it. 54% of Americans read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level and Americans are also infamous for being unable to identify any other countries on a map.

      • FidelCastro [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        they should stop being blood thirsty chauvinists regardless of their age

        :eric-andre:

        • DengXixian [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          umm excuse me it’s rude to condemn the hitler youth for claiming the jews are controlling the banks. they are just heckin children

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah they have a post about "countries that got away with ethnic genocide" on the front page right now, as if China is getting away with its treatment of Uyghur Muslims, which isn't even genocidal in any way, on the same level that the US got away with indigenous genocide or France and the UK with gestures wildly. So probably it's 196.

          • DengXixian [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            They love repeating this line, which makes me suspect Amerika probably harvests the organs of the innocent people enslaved within its massive prison systems.

            • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              I dated a girl who was in a near fatal car crash that left her with an assortment of surgical scars and her father had been very adamant that because she was an organ donor that they had almost let her die to harvest her young undamaged insides. It has occurred to me that a society where an assortment of vehicle related deaths are considered the norm is a great boon for people waiting for a new kidney or lung.

                • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  EMTs don't have time to check that shit

                  if you're worried about it lobby for changing the system to opt-out instead of opt-in. (because religious weirdos care about their organs for some reason )

          • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            2 years ago

            The organ farming accusations are Falun Gong canard, likewise most of the claims about Xinjiang literally stem from Al Qaeda agitprop. There was an al qaeda propaganda video on youtube uploaded in 2014 with all of Zenz's 2019 claims in it but it seems to be gone now.

          • RedDawn [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I also got banned from that sub for questioning the Uyghur genocide narrative

            • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              One of the best parts of not going on :reddit-logo: anymore is not being accused of being a genocide denier anytime I assert that just maybe China isn't the Great Satan who are committed to global Han domination.

          • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I don't remember if I ever commented on that sub before I deleted my account, I think I didn't. I gotta admit that I still browse it daily because it's the only large subreddit that is mostly fine politically.

            • DengXixian [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              it’s the only large subreddit that is mostly fine politically

              :doubt:

              A captured “leftist” sub that apparently caters to teenagers and is also imperialist?

              Sounds like the state department has managed to narrow the range of acceptable discussion on :reddit-logo: very effectively.

              • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Yes it's garbage on anything foreign policy (much better at calling out Western imperialism than usual and has the usual reddit brainworms on Ukraine) but there's no transphobia (sometimes there's chasers though) and they dunk on neolibs. I prefer /r/TrueAnon and SLS but those subs get 2 orders of magnitude fewer posts.

                • DengXixian [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  fair enough. I forget how difficult it is to find non-transphobic places online that are not exclusively queer. Hexbear has spoiled me.

                  :deng-salute:

                  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    Yeah I mean I'm cis so it's not really for my sake, just good to be somewhere where I know the other people aren't scumbags.

        • DengXixian [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          umm excuse me it’s rude to condemn the hitler youth for claiming the jews are controlling the banks. they are just heckin children

          • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            It's crazy to excuse them for just being young and ignorant, because if you're so ignorant how are you so caught up with the State Dep line?? If anything I'd be willing to give a pass to the guy who thought they were genociding Uruguayans because that's a hilarious mistake I would've made when I was 13.

        • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          which isn’t even genocidal in any way,

          it might be cultural genocide but english monolinguals have no shot at telling the difference.

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The West specifically fought to exclude cultural genocide from all formal definitions of genocide when the international laws were being drawn up. It's outright hypocritical for them to pivot to this argument now, especially while providing zero evidence.

            A recent article about cultural genocide in Tibet even used a photo of a school that was using both Chinese and Tibetan script in its teaching materials: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/china-committing-cultural-genocide-against-tibetan-children/

            • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              good thing i'm not "the west" and can still talk shit about (possibly, maybe, at most, not that I could tell) cultural genocide.

      • DengXixian [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Then they should be cyber bullied into shutting the fuck up while they are still impressionable and open to new ideas

      • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        actual children, your average american adults, what's really the difference

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Give me the $5 please I am collecting on your bet

    • DengXixian [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      54% of Americans read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level

      lol lmfao

      :amerikkka-clap:

      Nation of illiterate bigots. USA cannot collapse soon enough.