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Isn't this a thinly veiled threat they would use a nuke? Not to give the fascists credit for an ounce of intelligence, but since it is so clear to everyone that they have already been "acting" without direct US involvement, to me it sounds like they're saying they will act by using that one thing they never outright say they have but have been holding over everyone, even their allies, as a threat for decades. Aren't they saying "we'll do the ultimate escalation if you don't escalate by joining us"?

In my experience they'll usually have a retort for that with some bullshit about "authoritarianism" and how the Soviets were forcing the population to work focused only upon the will of the party. It doesn’t make sense of course, but it doesnt have to, it only has to fit with the narrative they already believe.

There was that post the other day with someone at the protests propping up a sign saying "If Kamala were president, we'd all be at brunch" or something like that. To me, it was very clearly a criticism of the liberals there who would not have cared if a dem were in office, the kind of thing one of us might put on a sign for these protests, but almost everyone commenting on that post was assuming the sign was meant to be taken at face value. The top comment said:

"this place is beyond hopeless. i don't have the words to describe the despair that these lib "protests" are engendering in me"

That is the kind of doomerist, nihilistic, non-dialectical nonsense that I think OP is addressing here.

When I pointed out that even the olive cocktail cutouts made it obvious it was irony-protesting, I was berated for "giving a white american the benefit of the doubt." Like wtf, what percentage of this very site is white american again? Some of them are capable of being comrades. It was weird to me how much people in that thread just wanted to think everyone at those protests are the equivalent of .world libs. One of the predominant sentiments on hexbear about the prostests are to be ridiculed and nothing more. That they are worse than ineffective, they are somehow only heling the bourgeoisie. And don't get me wrong, I am well aware of the many completely valid criticisms of these protests and their inadequacy to effect real change. But the kind of attitude that jack is addressing in this OP is absolutely something that is prevalent here and needs to be addressed.

Apparently there's a contingent of people here who are happier believing no one outside of their niche internet forums are capable of using irony to laugh at libs. Also especially no cracker can possibly be a leftist and make a sign that ridicules brunch libs (unless they're one of the crackers on this site which is like 85% mayo). Its almost like a form of except inversed, refusing to see the potential coolness of others and denying that comrades do exist out there who do funny things things offline.

Well first of all, being sorta one myself I'd like to think that every once in a while they are deserving of it, some of them can earn it through past actions. But also, I'm not necessarily even doing that because we don't know who made that sign, could just as easily be the person behind the camera as the person propping it up or someone else entirely.

Doesn't matter though, the way I see it that sign speaks for itself whoever made it. I can't look at it and think it's doing anything other than pointing and laughing at the brunch libs. And saying that doesn't feel like I'm being optimistic or generous either, I just don't think an actual brunch lib would make that sign that way.

Exactly. The brunch thing is too well-known of a criticism for this not to be a self-aware sign. And the little cocktail 🍸 cutouts? Yeah, come on, there's no way this person isn't just making fun of the libs.

I gotta be honest, I think this is some irony-protesting. The person who made that sign is being critical of the lib protests and might even fit in on this here bear site.

I've actually told people irl about your Darby in conversations about kitty quirks. Specifically that she not only likes to sleep in the sink (not unheard of for a cat) but that she likes to do so with water running on her.

Anyway, have a happy birthday ya cute lil wirdo cat!

(only not sad).

On fennec/firefox for android at least, just tapping off to the side of pause/play button (but still on the video) makes the button disappear without effecting the video. Mildly annoying to have to press play then immediately tap to the side, but its a workaround.

Me too. The event that birthed the newsmega itself. It's honestly kinda sobering to think of how much I've learned about geopolitics and the world in general from this weekly thread and the people who contribute to it.

First thing I noticed was how instantaneous/simultaneous the sound was with the visuals. There should be a small but noticeable delay for the sound to travel, given the distance the viewer is from the building. Obviously audio can be edited even in a real video, but it would be an odd thing to do.