StupidBrotherInLaw

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[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Again to point out for the rest: this has to be a troll. It's too perfect a mix of being demonstrably incorrect with being aggressively overconfident. It's 100% ragebait, and the odds of someone truly being this ignorant while also being so furiously certain are low. Then ending with an insult? It's too on the nose.

I'm not suggesting people don't interact. I simply suggest we mock them for their poor trolling skills.

LOL obvious troll is obvious. I'm not an American! ROFLMAO

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

LOL this has to be rage bait. Even an American would know better.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Username checks out.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But they've fixed the issue of discrimination by now being hostile to everyone.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They just cycled a key figure out of public view. This is PR strategy - when criticism against a particular organization or any of its key figure(s) reaches a certain point, replace some key figures.

Tr;dr: the frogs in the pot all cheer as the cook is replaced and their replacement turns down the hob a touch.

People tend to see key figures as representative of entire organizations, e.g., there are so many people who see removing Trump as being a solution despite him being a clear symptom of the problem. Letting some take a fall is a PR win grab bag: many people interpret the "punishment" of a few people as being applied to the whole organization and it suggests reform and atonement without actually changing anything substantial. Then the new figures start and optionally say they're changing strategies for future improvement - "it'll work but it takes time, just trust me bro."

As long as this round of musical chairs tells a story that enough critics want to hear, enough mounting critical pressure is reduced enough for the cycle to continue a bit longer.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tl;dr: Democrats are controlled opposition.

When they do have any leverage, they find plenty of reasons not to use it. The Republican party has put on a decades-long master class on being obstructionist little twats, yet most Democrats fail to learn and the few that have often seem more like pressure release valves than actual agents of change.

I really hope you're high as fuck right now.

though Russia is still worse

Barely.

If the text you quoted (requoted below because you seem to have a strained relationship with truth) is what you call rage bait, I can't help but wonder what your take on actual rage bait might be.

Its so easy to sit in your computer chair and denounce it as a moral failure that American liberals and progressives aren’t eager to get in the streets and throw rocks at an obscenely powerful militarized police state that could turn their neighborhoods into fucking burning rubble with a phone call.

 
 

This is the second time this has happened. I delete all my old posts and comments using PowerDeleteSuite. I view my profile - everything selected is gone. A few months later, it's all back. I repeat the process, verifying it's all gone. I log in today, months later, and it's back. Simply maddening.

Is there anything I can do to make it stick?

 
 
 

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