[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 41 points 2 days ago

Saw the same thing. R/politics is a great tool to gauge where they are trying to steer public opinion, and often reveals next moves. My guess there are competing comment farms and that there is some government faction that wants to replace Joe. But others want him to stay put because they fear they won't have as much power under a living president.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 59 points 1 month ago

Feds have been generally anti netanyahu for at least 3 months now. It's pacifying for many people and they do intend to pin this shit on him eventually

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Any thoughts that Jeff Bezos actually exposed that billionaire WhatsApp chat?

I am referring to this leak from 2 days ago which I assume has made the rounds here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

It seems weird that one shot right to the Washington Post, which isn't typically how these things leak out. Bezos was in allegedly in the chat, but I don't know if WP would have done this if there was anything incriminating about Bezos.

I love this as a fan theory, I love the intrigue. You have a group of your competition willing to throw themselves on the pire in increasingly obviously ways. You sit on the chat and then once the damage is done blast that out from your own newspaper. Maybe he had beef the Kind bar guy. Maybe this ordeal is fucking with his portfolio overall. Maybe he just wanted to throw his weight around and knock the other reptilians down a few pegs.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 71 points 1 month ago

Israel's response at the ICJ was an interesting watch. The body language was like a kid who comes home after a fight at school, knowing the school is going to call your parents, jumping everytime the phone rings.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago

Any news on Egypt?

It's like there's been a media blackout to/from that place. I know Sisi is a cuck and all, but something tells me that might be the next pin to fall. Like skirmishes at the crossing or something.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago

This level of mass psychosis is fascinating. Does anybody have any decent takes or resources on this. It's truly remarkable to watch.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago

More than half of people under 30 live with their parents now.

And I'm not saying that's necessary a bad thing, that's a norm in most parts of the world. But we aren't really socialized that way. People are living at home with parents who harangue them daily about not getting a good enough job and who aren't planning on leaving their home to their children.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 56 points 1 month ago

This makes a lot more sense when you consider that the US, or at least some faction of it, wants a broader conflict. Gaza continued even as an ongoing failure because it was succeeding as a provocation, but maybe not the exact way they wanted. I don't think they anticipated the Houthi or Turkey for example.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago

It's so weird that Macron was swinging dick about this not long ago, even though I don't think they ever had an intention on following through AND the vast majority of the French public was not amused by it.

It's like western world leadership is cutting promos that appeal to like 5% of their constituents and then they back down, pussifying themselves to that 5% anyway

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago

I saw a video a couple of months ago that was so horrid.

A girl was dying after being bombed. her brain was exposed. Her fingers were twitching independently but entirely from the metacarpal joint, in a way that couldn't have been voluntary.

It was filmed by the father, the translation revealed that he was chatting with emergency services via video, where he was basically told there was nothing they could do, that she would be dead before they got there.

At one point, she seemed to come out of trance and touch her own brain, to which the father desperately said "nononono" - a familiar sound for anybody with a toddler, when they pull the cats tail or pick up a crystal champagne flute, only it was her grabbing her own brain, while the father was still holding onto to some hope she might live.

Anyway, some hasbot showed up in the comments claiming he mutilated his own daughter in that fashion, filmed it, because he just hates Jews so much and wanted to make them look bad.

No amount of limiting what I can see will get me to forget that moment. I have actually seen things that are objectively worse, like "the boy with no face". But what I was seeing combined with what was being said changed me forever. I don't think these people can even provide an adequate context because they are missing some human component necessary to lie effectively.

If you cut off my internet access now and for forever, my opinion would be frozen in that place for the rest of my life. I would be shouting about hasbots in 50 years like a vietnam vet shouts about Charlie.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 54 points 1 month ago

They're pumping that out on every platform and it still underperforms even when boosted. The problem isn't the medium, it's that the elite has become so insulated they can't make things that appeal to their subjects anymore.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago

Do they think young people are going to start watching cable news? Because I'm almost 40 and that shit is as alien as inter dimensional cable. I wouldn't watch it if it was the only thing available. And if you take away my distractions, I'm probably going to become more of a problem.

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