my retirement plan was dying in the water wars already, I guess the timetable has been moved forward

not sure what you’re trying to say here, many Europeans and USians will act like they are. the ‘russian bot’ accusation is an automatic response to shut down dissenting speech that taps into that xenophobia.

I don’t care what Putin says, just pointing out xenophobia when I see it

clearly everyone who says something you don’t like must be a Russian bot, Wikipedia says it

Lemmy users 🤝 governor of Utah

“I wish we could blame foreigners”

This is the same guy who was like “I wanted so hard to believe it wasn’t someone from here that did it” Seems like he really wants an outside threat to demonize, surely people won’t fall for that- oh right never mind lmao

forgot to turn off bighead mode before entering pvp zone

I swear I can’t enter a comment section without the accusation 💅

Maybe if the seals spent less time trafficking and doing drugs they would fuck up less

I fucking hate the rat, but this is when you gotta hit them with the ‘weird’

I know a bunch of people from in person organizing in the US who are ML/maoist and have positive opinions of China, Russia, Cuba, etc, but it’s generally the kind of critical support you see on hexbear. A lot of them are trans/NB and have grown up in the US propaganda bubble and reject it.

Also pretty sure both lemmy.ml and hexbear.net are blocked in china. It’s probably just because they block all foreign social media as a general practice though. If they’re looking to do propaganda work they’re probably going to do it on platforms with more people tbh.

hiiiii I disavow the Israeli fortnite girl

I feel like the op meme would hit harder with this on the well guy cause they’re fine to push the ‘lesser evil’ when it means getting their preferred evil in. when it comes to opposing communism then it’s suddenly purity testing is fine

I mean, the CFA franc is one part of the system. governments can willingly become a part of a system that’s exploitative when they see some advantage. Usually it’s the people on the receiving end of shock therapy that get the negative consequences while a minority cash out.

This year has sucked but I’ve been keeping my shit together at least.

in-person non-electoral organizing keeps me sane

a third of African countries have a monetary policy run out of EU right now; CFA Franc is used by like 200 million people.

I’m also Russian but living in US. ‘fighting Russian propaganda’ isn’t really a priority for me tbh. It’s just another side of the story to be evaluated with the rest of the propaganda coming from state and corporate media sources.

I prefer to evaluate sources where I know their biases ahead of time. Sources that pretend to be impartial and unbiased are perfectly capable of spreading propaganda too.

this is pretty spot on, bonus points for including anarchists

the best organizers I know do happen to be doms