MolotovHalfEmpty

joined 5 years ago
[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

His feed has been exactly as racist and big mad as you'd expect. My favourite unhinged tweet by him (well, retweet) is the following that says the presence of some government owned grocery stores will immediately lead to mass civil unrest and starvation:

Naturally they're prepping some sort of legal shenanigans and a spoiler candidate:

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Still too little for my tastes.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"Cryin' Chuck Schumer"

Is this why he was hospitalised for dehydration.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Their attempts to destabilise our country included very reasonable trade deals, essentially funding our university system via very high fees for Chinese students, offering to modernise our internet/cell infrastructure, and an infrastructure deal on nuclear power.

Then the US engineered Brexit, cooked up the Xinjiang "genocide" bullshit, and whipped us into line.

We reneged on various deals, cancelled internet/cell and nuclear infrastructure, started treating Chinese postgrads like spies, screamed 'genocide' without evidence, cooked up elaborate conspiracy theories about foreign police stations, blamed China for COVID while we killed hundreds of thousands of our own citizens and robbed the public purse for hundreds of billions in corrupt contracts, all while working with the Americans to actually destabilise China and sanction their politicians.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 51 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He seemed legitimately tired and pissed off about it too. Not sure if I've seen Trump's demeanour quite like that.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

Liiiike none of those "people" were hoooot, or cooooool. If they didn't want to be a victim of the system I uphold they should have been, like, hotter right? Like all those white supremists who go to the gym & that means I can thirst over (before my next video on the personal mortality of being a historic German train conductor) , I mean unironically but kinda ironically I wanna do, but not so, the traditionalist reaction I want.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

There's also a long history of 20th and 21st Century fascist groups combining violent ritual and pedophilia both as an expression of ideology or as potential bonding / blackmail for members. The Order of the Solar Temple and it's precursor, the Children Of God, more recently the Order of Nine Angels etc.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

They also say it involved drugs, which could be part of said ritual and help to try and make people forget. I don't think anyone has enough information from the article to be making confident assumptions about what exactly happened because there isn't enough information in the article, full stop.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

This is the guy who called for Israel to nuke Gaza, was called out even by right-wing commentators, and then doubled down.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

I'm slightly confused by your comment. Who's making it into or making it sound like an antisemtic conspiracy theory? The victims or the Jerusalem Post? Or was your point something else I'm missing? (Not trying to argue, just genuinely not sure I'm understanding what you mean)

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes.

Pretty much all of the biggest games with under 16s (Fortnite, Roblox, CoD etc) pay millions (if not tens of millions) to behavioural psychologists who basically all do the work under pseudonyms and strict NDAs to avoid legal liability and public condemnation.

But even then video games are the symptom not the disease... (This is gonna be long)

It's been impossible to watch any sport for at least a decade without being bombarded with betting ads. When the sponsorship regulations lifted everything in sight (not just sports teams) became sponsored by betting companies. A lot of less prosperous towns have dozens of betting shops as the only profitable and consistently open business on high streets (main street) - this was sometimes true in the bad old days of ex pit villages but now is everywhere. Maybe 20% of all paid, non target advertising (TV, radio, online) here is gambling related. Every major satallite TV and broadband company has it's own casino and gambling company, often prioritised and delivered to you as a customer whether you like it or not.

The gambling industry, more than even arms or landlordism, has totally taken over the funding of literally all MPs and politicians (often for embarrassing figures). Over a decade ago now, when my (shit, centrist melt) MP where I used to live lost their seat, the gambling industry paid them £3k a month to write four articles a year plus a white paper about how 'the working class' (which he was very much not a part of despite his attempts to pretend otherwise) saw regulation on gambling and help for addicts as patronising nanny statism. When said former MP was about to regain a small amount of influence in parliament they were immediately gifted three weeks in the US all expenses paid by a betting company lobby group.

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