I asked, concisely and simply, what was being hidden from us. Most of them just berated me, one user claimed the Syria conflict to which I provided a link to a recent UN Statement on which quite accurately reflected the conflict start to finish. Another user claimed that the recently declassified Nixon era documents about the Chilean revolution and coup, but I was able to find a 1973 archived Newspaper accusing the Nixon Admin of having a hand in it from New York Times, meaning it was already a mainstream theory at the time.

https://feddit.online/post/1341994

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[–] pongo1231@hexbear.net 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Why would the west weaponize narratives against its political enemies" they ask right whilst the west is weaponizing narratives against Venezuela.

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US has lied about basically everything over the past 70 years via CIA leaks. Surely they're telling the truth about Venezuela this time, right?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 months ago

That user doesn't care if a lie or not if it's about the wrong/bad country

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 49 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"No you see, I found this one article hidden in the UN website that the western press wrote 1 single article for which wasn't put on their socials or on their front page. They do tell the full story!

What? The 400 articles telling the opposite narrative are evidence of the opposite? Preposterous!"

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

The lie on page one and the correction six weeks later on page thirty-nine cancel each other out!

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I can almost kind of appreciate the western media apparatus in a kind of Machiavellian way sometimes. It's just so well set up to deceive people while keeping people thinking they are more well informed than literally everyone else on the planet, layers and layers of obfuscation and misdirection.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Glad to have seen 'tankie' become a truly meaningless term in my lifetime

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I simply block anybody using it unironically.

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

What are you? Some sort of tankie? /j

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Love them also saying they're the biggest trump hater but like that he did order the attack...

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most likely they hate Trump because he isn't white supremacist enough for them.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago

Nah cause he is too obvious about it

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

Show me what the western media is hiding. Also I will disregard anything that is not from a western media source.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The western press that has been doing such a good job the last 40 years that they still add “gate” to the end of every scandal story to passively remind you of the last big time they famously did their fucking jobs?

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh yes the blahaj.zone famous for been tankie. Also posted on .world also famous for a big number of tankies users.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

preemptively as a last resort

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Mommy! Mommy! A tabkie farted on me I'm so scared!

[–] shath@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

farting on my roommates door haah

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

"The insidious Tankies will deliberately consume huge amounts of beanis so they can fart on people at any time or in any place." yeonmi-park

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

They guy showing how Time was writing propaganda articles justifying couping Allende in Chile with the turbo-lib response "oh, that was only for the unsuccessful 1970 attempts.' Fucking moron.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn what did we do to get these trust fund incels so shook? They're genuinely scared to death of us wtf lmao?

I keep forgetting these are the same coward dorks who "preemptively defederated" from Hexbear two years ago

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably just wanted a single word quip to look funny

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

Everything else is doubling down, I got no other answers, they know how bullshit of a tankie statement is to make there in the first place

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

They really are just complaining people are disrupting the echo of chamber they're in.

[–] feelingyourselfdisintergrate@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

They ought to give "Inventing Reality: the politics of the mass media" a read

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn, even Blahaj is being accused of being tankies now? I guess they'd better let a few more chasers abuse their trans userbase and let a few more fascists spout great replacement theory there, just to make sure that people don't get the wrong idea about them being authoritarian tankies.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Funnily enough blahaj was the first instance that conducted antitankie witchhunt after reddit exodus.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You'd think they would learn that trying to court the anti-communists won't suddenly make the anti-communists more accepting of their trans instance, and will only invite the fascists in to destroy their instance, but clearly their problem is they haven't done enough witch hunts yet.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

It's the eternal quest to be acceptable leftist, aka Bernsteinism-Kautskyism-Chomskyism.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago

Huh this seems better for the power tripping bastards comm, wonder why they didn't post there.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=19447362

Oh they got temp banned from it for report abuse lol

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago

Oh and at least I person actually looked to see what a actually got them banned

https://sh.itjust.works/post/52905048/23028417