• barrbaric [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, Xi and Putin. Used to be Soros too but he stopped paying a few years back.

    Seriously though, what media operation, "tankie" media is like 5 bloggers who all want to strangle each other.

        • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
          ·
          3 months ago

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          The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

          نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

          volcel-police

    • heggs_bayer
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      3 months ago

      I think he means stuff like Mint Press, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, The Deprogram, and some other media operations I can't think of off the top of my head.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    He's only saying that because he knows who's funding his media operation smuglord

    • hypercracker
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      3 months ago

      honestly probably true. this is the same psychology of when you're high in public and start to believe everyone else is high in public. or people who cheat on their spouses believing everyone is cheating on their spouses, dudes on roids in the gym believing everyone in the gym is on roids, etc.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Lmao what media operation.

    Bro there is no openly communist western media outside of some nichie indie projects

    • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      To be fair there are publications put out by various communist parties in the US ranging from serious to deeply unserious. PSL runs it's own news network, Liberation News. It's a communist publication run by a good communist party

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        Yeah but that probably isn't what this idiot is talking about.

        He's probably referring to types like the PatSoc weirdos, of whom a solid chunk are probably funded by the US as a means of recapturing any baby leftists who wander after them (this idiot probably thinks they're funded by China or w/e though just because they're 'leftist')

      • CommCat [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        BreakThrough News is basically a PSL news outlet, it's my fav youtube news channel

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
    hexagon
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    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Middle-aged man with laser eyes avatar—online phenotype for the most self-absorbed-yet-sauceless posters ever very-smart

  • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Wait, we have a media operation?

    Oh, you mean the shitty little memes now and then, maybe a few tiktoks that slip through the filters. I'm sure it's destabilizing the entire western hegemony.

    Then again, who am i to say it won't. Supposedly a few russina facebook ads totaling like $100k turned all of America racist and woke at the same time and destroyed democracy. We just need to find that One. Perfect. Meme. And it's all over.

  • mustGo [any]
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, furries with IT jobs and Roger Waters.

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    LoL this is actually hilarious. Socialist organizers arrested and charged with being Russian agents? Check. Online shitposters than want to stop a genocide? Check.

    They are all controlled by Putin especially those Nader bros is 2000 no I mean the Bernie bros in 2016 wait no the Jull Stein supporters in 2024 that lost the election for Hillary I mean kamala

    Et fucking cetera

  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Putting down CIA-backed anticommunism is actually the worst form of state authoritarianism, according to the CIA guy, working for the world-historic forces of oppression and white supremacy

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    edit-2
    3 months ago

    The only "thing" "funding" "our" "media" "operation" besides donations from users is our terminally online behavior and depression.

  • heggs_bayer
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    3 months ago

    I saw this cursed image looking through the replies:

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      • miz [any, any]
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        edit-2
        3 months ago

        under historical idealism it's easy. the US stopped doing all that stuff right after the most recent blood-soaked example you can come up with of the US doing that stuff, because America is so good and enlightened.

    • barrbaric [he/him]
      ·
      3 months ago

      NAFO in "reasonable people"

      Noam Chomsky on the "lunatic fringe"

      This has to be a bit.

      • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        Communists are being equated to Nazis in the image. This is obviously America-brained enlightened centrism-flavored Nazi

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
      ·
      3 months ago

      toxic towards liberals

      Oh Jesus, those unhinged lefties went so far as to say bad things about liberals! Prepare my fainting chair!

      • peeonyou [he/him]
        ·
        3 months ago

        im actually surprised they didn't lump liberals in with "leftists"

    • heggs_bayer
      ·
      3 months ago

      morshupls Ah, but the tankies were the first to make accusations of intelligence agency funding against Bellingcat, therefore it is the tankies who are confessing. smuglord

  • ihaveibs [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    PayPal and Venmo ban our news sources because that's how foreign governments fund their operations right? That's definitely not because they rely on reader donations or anything, obviously.