chapotraphouse

How does a campaign make a mistake like this?

From https://notarabic.com/

Edit: there seems to be some confusion about what is wrong with this, I guess we really need those Arabic lessons smh. See my comments or the link @MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net posted.

A user should be able to (respectfully, infrequently) post/comment about a study showing marijuana is a gateway drug to !marijuana without moderation tools being used to censor that content.

Some communities will receive an immediate notice with a link to this new policy. The most egregious communities will comply, or their moderators will be removed from those communities.

Has anyone else seen these comment prompts on Youtube yet

What the fuck's the point of these

I'm not kidding. Urban areas with a high density of population are always more left-wing than rural areas. Lonely losers are the ones who become incels/groypers and shit. Workers who worked in small businesses with few colleagues were the most likely to support the literal NSDAP in the 30's. The more people you talk to the more likely you are you support left-wing ideas. I just have to make a shit ton of friends and the revolutionary spirit will bring about communism. Wish me luck comrades. Also

Choice quotes:

if Lemmy continues to display outright hostility and toxicity towards Americans at every turn, there is virtually no chance that this platform will ever develop beyond its current fringe status.

I’ve always had thick skin and an open mind, so if I’m getting annoyed by it, my assumption is that most other Americans will find it intolerable. And although we don’t need to be a majority American site by any means, the sheer numbers dictate that if Americans find this site intolerable, it will never achieve mainstream success.

And if I hear one more fucking person say that America only joined World War 2 after it was already over, or that we were cowards for not joining sooner, I swear to God I’ma start criticizing the metric system again

In the comments that led to this post:

I’m American, and the fact that people would accuse me of being a Russian troll is deliciously ironic to me 😂. For one thing, my command of the English language rules that out, which isn’t something I can say about many of you.

another example of circlejerking Europeans doing everything they can to ensure no American would ever want to use Lemmy by acting like morally superior douchebags.

America controls the world, and Europeans are salty about it. I didn’t even realize how salty until I started using Lemmy

a symptom of the relatively larger proportion of Europeans on this site, and their obvious jealousy and insecurity regarding Americans. I still believe that is the most likely explanation.

The number of times that I have seen people refer to the American contribution to WWII as cowardice, meaningless, etc, is too damn high. 400,000 Americans died in that war. Read a fucking history book you ignorant, insensitive fucks.

Some people are smarter and think more independently, while most tend to accept the dominant narrative, because thinking for yourself is emotionally and mentally draining. I would bet my left nut that the average lemming is smarter than the average redditor.

Ultimately, it’s up to the more intelligent people to determine what is true and false, and the best way to do that is through open, uncensored debate.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6719880

Somebody fix this for me or else I’m calling for revolution, sorry.

Normally I keep CNN on during the day as background noise so I can hear the latest breaking news because they're pretty good for that at least. But my god Sunday mornings are the worst when they let this shitlib centrist bozo on to both sides why actually the democrats need to embrace racism to win.

Special second place shout out goes to Michael Smerconish who's another clueless boomer asshole who gets to go on for an hour on the weekend and complain about young people.

https://archive.ph/DjZAQ

The surplus equipment included “hoses, nozzles, turnouts, helmets, body armor and other associated personal protective equipment.”

So I was flipping through the channels on my buddy's TV (as you do) and came across an odd channel that started off its next segment saying something along the lines of 'China, looks advanced and fancy, but hides a beast (and then shows a Chinese dragon), their dark ways rot something something a danger to the world something something dark dark dark'. I couldn't make out everything the narrator was saying because even though it was in classical Arabic, it had an accent that threw me off; thankfully my friend was there to translate. Basically they loaded up every sentence of their (ad? segment? I don't know, I changed the channel) with variations on the word 'dark' or 'evil' and how they're a danger to the world (apparently in Arabic it doesn't sound as redundant as it does in English). They also showed scenes from inside prisons; honestly I still have no idea how even if, EVEN IF, the Chinese are cruel to their prisoners that that would make them a threat to the world, so I fail to see the relevance of that clip.

I asked my buddy which country that channel was from (they get multiple Middle Eastern channels here) and he said he believes it's American.

Radio free Arabia everyone; and what kind of gave me that hint was the fact the channel is literally also called 'the freedom' in Arabic.

Can't have shit.

Haven't you ever think, hmm isn't it a little weird seeing a guy named "Mr. Beast" going around healing the blind, giving money away to poor people? Not to mention his public aspirations to become the president. Everybody is saying he speaks in demonic tongues when not in public. He whispers to himself "lord Satan, i serve you, i am at your command" under his breath, many say. According to my sources, he has a secret channel on YouTube which is only visible when you type in "666 HAIL SATAN" into the search bar. There's a video on the channel where he seasons babies and then fries them, creating some sort of KFC analogue, then eats the fried babies while speaking in demonic tongues, eyes rolled back into his head.

This guy is the fucking antichrist, there is no denying it. I will not be silenced by the Beast.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/01/11/kamala-harris-zombie-fundraising-00197681

Well?