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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Huh? Sensational claims on a hot topic are always better fact-checked, regardless of what they support.

If you're ready to spread whatever you hear as long as it supports your views, here you are: Trump eats an infant every morning to deal with impotency. Go ahead, make a headline.

Or, a tankie version: Xi Jinping personally installed 150GW of solar power yesterday as he ruled closing of coal plants across the country.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sensational claims on a hot topic are always better fact-checked, regardless of what they support.

Better for whom?

Listen, we're at war with an existential foreign evil. And I believe anything negative we can say about that foreign power furthers the war effort. Therefore, we MUST believe it, whether or not it is true.

Trump eats an infant every morning to deal with impotency.

You joke, but we did this one already, back in 2016. "Torturing children to eat them for their magic youth chemicals" was a popular mythology for the Alex Jones crowd.

And we believed it, God damnit, because we needed to beat the Chinese Communist plant Hillary Clinton.

Or, a tankie version: Xi Jinping personally installed 150GW of solar power yesterday as he ruled closing of coal plants across the country.

Obviously, solar power is itself a hoax perpetrated by anti-American climate activists. So it's exactly the kind of lie a Chinese Communist Tankie would spread.

I believe Xi Jinping's fake degenerate solar panels are undermining Western Civilization. If he's installing them, he must be stopped at all costs.

If you see a solar panel, it is your duty to smash it. Fuck the CCP!

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

you have completely lost your mind.