Dirt_Possum

Yes. You and your devices are heavily tracked with actually highly sophisticated fingerprinting tech. Reddit knows that all your alts are you even if you use a different email with a different device. Using TOR was one of the last ways you could make an actual anonymous account but they put a stop to that a while ago. It's still somewhat possible with clever use of VPNs and and fingerprint-spoofing browsers, but it's not easy.

Agreed. The phrasing "every single person online" is a bit strange because if say Greta had been killed, there would undeniably be tons of people outraged and mourning, some of them even liberals. All (or nearly all) the "conservative" rightwingers would be celebrating it though and saying things like she got what was coming to her, probably along with a few libs being more careful with their wording.

I hope Pim Tool is shitting his pants rn wondering if he's next. Even better than Charlie Kirk being dead is that this happening might make these sniveling little propagandists actually develop a fear of suffering consequences.

I'm not so sure about that. Back at that time most people (in the US) who saw the memes looked at them with shock and disgust while clutching their pearls, shaking their head at how sacrilegious and gauche youth and/or internet culture had become, but still, everybody did see them at the time.

I remember there was big hoopla about some ridiculous group called Voluntary Human Extinction Movement that put out a video [not sure if this requires a CW but just in case, graphic description:] with a title like "I like to watch" with spliced clips of different angles of the towers getting hit and falling along with pornographic cuts of a woman as if licking one of the towers like a phallus. And some other one "LOL Superman" with clips of people jumping from the towers to avoid the flames. The response to those was like a mini satanic panic, though mostly contained on the internet. It's actually a little weird how they were all over the place at the time as shock content to the point they were hard to miss, kinda like goatse .cx, but they are now almost entirely scrubbed from the sanitized, tech giant enclosed internet. If you were even a little bit of an internet nerd at the time, you had seen them. But everyone who used the internet at all had seen stuff like the Hulk Hogan meme, even if those memes were near universally condemned and you were A Bad Person if you thought they were funny.

I don't see why Deng is relevant here when this is against all branches of Marxism

They're calling us Dengists because most of us support China (even after Deng's post-Mao market reforms) as a socialist project, but since modern China is one of the Great Evil Authoritarian states by their reckoning, the term is meant as a pejorative. It's basically "tankie" but with anti-Chinese characteristics.

The Chapotraphouse subreddit was radicalizing a lot of redditors when it was repeatedly hitting the front page of reddit fairly regularly and exposing people to counter-ideologies to liberalism that they never would have seen otherwise. Which is the reason why it (and then a slew of other popular lefty subs) had to be banned*. Despite all the lib-brained nonsense we have to constantly correct on this platform (the fediverse), there are an untold number of lurkers reading these discussions who are getting to see what actual leftist thought looks like when the narrow guardrails on the dominant narrative get removed. That exposure, especially when combined with witnessing the rapid intensifying of contradictions in their irl experiences, is enough to radicalize any thinking, genuinely open person. Lemmy being one of the few spaces on the internet where these things aren't hidden or removed on sight absolutely plays a role in a lot of users' leftward political evolution.

*It's also why the fed instances like .world and piefed preemptively defederate, block, and continuously slander and demonize all of the leftist instances. They are literally trying to mitigate the spread of leftism that is inevitable when exposure to thought that's outside the dominant ideology has a chance to get seen and voiced.

To the liberal brain pickled from a lifetime of soaking in American propaganda, the stating of simple and demonstrable fact in an online discussion = "brute forcing propaganda."

Also I hate to do a redditism, but fucking hell does that username check out.

That's always my first question whenever this topic comes up. I have no debt but I also have no savings of any form. My retirement plan is to just die. (Millenial though, not gen Z).

Edit: *scrolls down* lol It looks like we aren't the only ones asking it.

getting breakfast at mcdonalds isn't a something people made up to mock americans. it's something they do, in such great quantities that its an economic indicator.

My bad. Corrected, thanks for pointing it out.

The liberals just think that there are inherently evil people like story book villains who have to play the role by throwing a wrench in what would otherwise be a perfectly peaceful and happy capitalist world order since that's what antagonists do. It's a form of Great Man Theory; everything would be fine if it weren't for the bad guys, in this case Putin, who just want to take over for the sake of their own personal vanity. There doesn't need to be any reasons for the war beyond that for liberals. It's only materialists who have to worry about looking for material causes of things.

Well now Wombat has others well trained to recite the lines when necessary, as we see exemplified by Rom at the top of this thread, so Wombat is able to take vacations.