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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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/
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:
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!"
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.
Insular racist community gets on trending or /r/all with a thread > The regulars mass upvote racist shit and disinfo and downvote critical posts > Oblivious users from elsewhere flow in; read the disinfo > leave the thread badly informed and begin to propagate that nonesense.
it's actually dangerous.
Sorry, it was meant to be a warning, sorry you had to see that. The footage makes the incident even worse imo, but we know reactionaries will twist the truth in whichever way is suitable to them. It's just so tiring, I'm just so tired of it
Yeah, probably but there's many niche hobby communites that don't exist anywhere, that's the only reason I'm still on there.
the thing im absolutely most mad at sites like reddit and facebook for; even more than the, you know, dystopian info-harvesting.
That video is so hard to watch. Floyd is downright scared. I don't care what anyone says about "being on multiple drugs", he had a gun pointed at him within 5 seconds of the confrontation.
The poor man was suffering from so much anxiety and fear. He was in the car, then they pull him out the other side and murder him. Fuck man I hate this country.
My app accidentally opened r/popular, which led to the posts I'm talking about. Never again folks.
It's not an accident, that's how the Chapo to fash pipeline works
Time to make some propaganda for Chapo.chat there to appeal to disgusted leftists
Maybe not there, we need to have this community stable before we let them know.
I end up on reddit because it still manages to be the largest and safest trans community online. the bar is quite literally on the floor.
15 Awards for this shit. WTF.
Oh my god, that entire comment chain...
I did it anyway because I'm stupid and man I'm angry as fuck. The amount of reactionary comments and how many upvotes they have makes me sick (edit: just look at this (trigger warning)). The threads on r/ActualPublicFreakouts are a fucking shitshow
Holy fuck he was having a full blown panic attack, it was plainly obvious.
Anyone have the link to the full footage so I don't have to slog through Reddit to see it?
edit: https://old.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/i34b5s/leaked_george_floyd_bodycam_footage/
Jesus that's a lot of top comments saying he died from a heart attack that didn't have anything to do with being choked.
We need ActualPublicFreakouts to get banned. It's a fucking neo-nazi safe space sub now.
I believe they mean the website is banned from being linked on Reddit, though I question whether that is true or not.
Yes we do for sure, we're too small to be totally self sustaining at the moment. We could use the growth
Donald? We're on a completely separate site, why would we not be able to link to Reddit, are the mods banning for that even?
I can't understand what happens in their minds. Like, how can you say this lmao. They are actually complaining that politics got into the french revolution... :stalin-stressed:
"anarcho-tyranny" -Very intelligent person and knower of history
Here is the short video
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2020/07/30/4049160131241488932/960x540_MP4_4049160131241488932.mp4
And here is the long video
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2020/07/30/5005474934801646650/960x540_MP4_5005474934801646650.mp4
It's the easiest cope for the chud brain: the same logic that allows my father to believe that a drunk driver getting into an accident causing someone to have a heart attack and die is innocent of murder. It completely ignores the context to tackle a question that nobody was really asking.
"excited delirium" is some shit made up by cop lawyers and doctors to excuse their murders.
The thread in question is a mixed bag. Not participating doesn't help imo.
It's on r/actualpublicfreakouts, pretty much a neo Nazi sub. If it's a mixed bag now it's because the post hit r/all and people from outside the Nazi bubble are trying to challenge the narrative.
Which kind of backs up my assertion that not challenging their narratives is counterproductive if it gets visibility.
