• Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I can’t say its jaw dropping because it was kinda an open secret but: Given how much actual disinformation and bullshit was going on in the middle of COVID on social media it’s a pretty chilling mask off reveal on what the actual priorities are. Honestly if you had told me this is how it would play out even just 2 years ago I don’t know if I would have believed it.

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        15 hours ago

        Indeed. Also worth pointing out to those who may not know: while the bulk of that was part of the trump administration a not insignificant portion of it was conducted under Biden before he shut it down.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    “The world is screaming about Israel, why aren’t they screaming about Hamas?” asked Romney. “‘Accept a cease-fire, bring home the hostages.’ Instead it’s the other way around, I mean, typically the Israelis are good at PR. What’s happened here? How have they, and we, been so ineffective at communicating the realities there?”

    Everything you do to the Palestinians you are also doing to the hostages you claim to care so much about so how do you justify that one?

    They have been ready to settle for a while but Bibi keeps changing the terms to grab more land and oppress the Palestinians further. Even if you remove Bibi, the entire governemnt of pissreal is a ethnofascist terrorist colonial project so Bibi is just a figurehead. Just come out in your white robes already Romney.

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    i think it shows how out of touch i am to think that these admissions are mind blowing in their frankness about manufacturing consent and narrative control, but a huge majority of my fellow countrymen see it as a nothing-burger.

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      honestly, they are completly in boomer brain mode. “there is a resentment against israel. Is it because how proudly they are about their crimes? or is it because all of Gaza being destroyed? or is it because their self admitted genocidal intentions? nope, it is all doing of that dang socal media app kids love to use. Everything will be right as god intended if we get rid of it”