A daily mail (yes, the "trustworthy" daily mail) have leaked bodycam footage of George Floyd's execution and the posts are filled with reactionaries and outright Nazis now. Just avoid reddit for today, it's not worth it.

  • Koa_lala [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You weren't joking.

    When reddit casually trends the nazi sub actualpublicfreakouts.

    Disgusting shithole fascist pipeline.

    EDIT: this is so damaging how many fucking libs are going into that thread reading the fucking bullshit and think jup that sounds reasonable. I mean it has a reddit gold highlight and it's neatly formated and everything. Fuck I that website.

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

      I love the way that if you look at new Reddit on a PC they try to make it look so professional, welcoming and nice, and then you have literal neo Nazi shit right below it. The contrast is so striking it's actually unbelievable

      • Koa_lala [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah. just at this. As a designer I'm confronted with the fact that highlighting posts like this is extremely dangerous. People take authority from things presented like that, it's not just a meme, it's how our ape brains work.

        https://i.gyazo.com/1d65be01871e1d5cbe7b4c5ce63a5c1f.png

        • Barabas [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It happens on reddit over the most trivial kind of shit as well. Whenever a subject comes up that you're even mildly acquainted with there will be someone near the top stating something that is just blatantly untrue, and people will believe them because they do it confidently. This is incredibly easy to game if you want to push opinions, as seen in this case. People won't investigate further, they'll look at the headline and the first post that seems like it knows what it is talking about and dip out. Once something starts to get pushed to the top, the only way to correct it is either by a moderator or the user themselves.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
            1·
            4 years ago

            This is so true. As someone that's studying computer science the way redditors think programming and games work is just plain wrong on a lot of occasions. Check out r/ps5 or r/Xbox or r/pcmasterrace for blatant lies if you know anything about systems design. Also, as a very good player in a certain video game (gran turismo, I've been playing it for almost my entire life), the amount of incorrect information on the gran turismo subreddit is also huge. It's just everything is some half truth imo.

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

          The way over half that shit is easily proved false with 5 minutes of research (anything to do with the autopsy from MPD can be debunked as they are using the same coroner as Jeffery Epstein and JFK) but it has gold proves that being banned from reddit was good so we don't have to deal with these shitheads.

          Edit: turns out that the doctor only observed the Epstein autopsy and said it was "consistent with a homicide" and was asked by the Floyd family to do the autopsy and also found that cause of death to be a homicide, and was only responsible for the handover of JFK's information. Sorry for getting that wrong, turns out autopsy guy is actually "good":

          https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/11/fact-check-doctor-didnt-autopsy-jfk-mlk-epstein-and-george-floyd/5329657002/

          • qublic69 [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            I have nothing of substance to add, I just want point out how awesome it is that lemmy / chapo.chat updates threads with new comments, upvotes, and edits.
            It is almost creepy seeing you add the correction, then edit formatting a few seconds later. :eyes:

            :grinning squinting face:

        • GottaJiBooUrns [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          How weird! I'm 2 years into med school and I've never heard of "excited delirium syndrome." I wonder how these cops have more medical training than me?

          A quick search shows that "ExDS" is not recognized as an actual medical condition. So now we have people trying to justify the use of deadly force via a bogus medical condition, huh? This is like, half a step away from using old phrenology "science" to justify deadly force.

          "Well the suspect was a black male, and as we all know, their temporal lobes are slightly more rounder, which impinges on their amygdala and causes them to act violently, thus justifying me shooting them in the back 22 times. Sorry libs, this is just science!"

      • purgegf [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        They started getting infiltrated in the 3rd week of the protests. It began with taking the same videos from publicfreakouts and editing the titles like "peaceful cop's head collides with rioter's foot" and other neo-nai bullshit. It is a crying shame.