whoops no this is UC Davis in 2011. the cop pepper spraying these nonviolent student protestors filed for worker's compensation claiming "psychiatric damage" due to having his name released and won more than $38k USD in compensation.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Fucking daily. It's infuriating. It's so frustrating. Why are they obsessed with a completely absurd fantasy about this one specific incident? Catholics aren't this obsessive with the crucifixion.

    • booty [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      having sources is astroturfing, not having sources is evidence of being correct. of course.

    • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Can you explain what is the difference between astroturfing and providing sources and evidence?

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Jesus christ. I wish you were a bot. Bots actually have an excuse for being unable to exceed their programming.

    • robinn2
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      1 year ago

      deleted by creator

    • Mokey [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Not everyone takes Western medias depiction of things as fact, I mean if you werent a complete dipshit the least you could do is try to composite a narrative from Chinese and Western sources instead of taking the #1 Geopolitical enemies word for it and countless other things it has lied about.

      You've seen first hand how shitty American government and it's goons are to it's own people why do you think they wouldn't lie about their main adversary?

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No, but we do have reading groups, encourage each other to expand our knowledge, and post useful and interesting links to each other if they're interested. You know, like most people do, like a community does.

      Also: imagine being proud deliberate ignorance.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Even if a corporation paid for that, a list of links would still not qualify as astroturfing