Seriously, they’re doing my bits for me!
The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people
Class interests? In my privately owned hegemonic media?
What’s up with Hexbear? They think everything I post is Western Propaganda, why would they ever think that?
That was the nudge I needed to make an account over here. I joined midwest.social because it was an explicitly leftist server. I would have been very sad to lose access to the good posts here now that I know about them, and honestly I’m pretty baffled at the number of users native to that instance who are bitching about you all in that thread.
Edit: thank you all so much for the warm welcome ❤️
welcome to the evil site of tankies, hope you enjoy your stay
I would say I’m from the true tankie instance but the libs are giving our crown to hexbear
“Tankie” is when you make libs uncomfortable so it’s not even about politics, we’re just ravenously online
If you haven’t gotten a welcome glad to have you here.
It’s a little chaotic, there are struggle sessions, but so long as people come with actually open minds it’s generally incredibly friendly here.
I also joined midwest.social because they claimed to be an explicitly leftist instance. It would be extremely disappointing if they defederate.
Hey just letting you know midwest.social does defederate lemmygrad
Welcome!
Welcome to hexbear <3
Welcome, please enjoy the fine selection of emojis
One of us one of us
It’s funny this is the same user whose comment I replied to 10 hours ago telling them about Hexbear being one of the OG instances (which is why it has a lot of users), but they go ahead and make the same thinly veiled “omg they’re botting!” accusation 4 hours later in a whole ass post trying to sneak diss y’all in their home instance.
got his ass
lots of bad faith actors
I can’t comment on the locked post, but this
Ah yes, the classic wealthy journalist. Everyone knows that reporting is where the big bucks truly lie. I guess it’s impossible for literally anyone living anywhere but the like 3 countries that pretend to be communist to report on anything accurately.
Is literally poking at the propaganda model described by Herman and Chomsky. The point isn’t that any individual journalist is so loaded that they write to defend their wealth. It’s that they’re selected for their jobs, and are even considered for them in the first place, because they usefully slot into said jobs for the capitalist owners of the journalism outlets. With a few exceptions most of the journalists at, your choice [NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, Time, etc], are there because their pre-existing beliefs. Perfectly exemplified in this Chomsky clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcpcytUnWU
“I don’t say you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
And they all went to the same ivy league schools that churn out clones for alphabet agencies and DC.
Liberals individualize everything to the point that they think individual reporters and journalists have to be “in on it” in some way to contribute to propaganda.
They don’t even have to believe it, they just have to believe in nothing. If you watch the Chris Cuomo interview on the Adam Friedland Show, the distinct impression is that he doesn’t believe in anything, knows it and is proud of it. Either that or he is doesn’t ever indicate that he believes in anything, knows it and is proud of it. The effect is the same, he is chosen not only because of his connections to politics, but also because of his lack of belief in anything outside of himself. Hell, even he doesn’t believe journalists, but that never stopped him from reporting their stories.
When he talked about how they pivoted without question to the line the Bush admin fed them without any remorse, I wasn’t surprised but I was disappointed.
insert disco quote about moralism
Precisely. This stuff was completely deconstructed in Manufactured Consent. You only need to see how many people who were journalists become politicians, and vice versa, to see how intertwined these classes are.
Lemmygrad on steroids
Our grad comrades catching way to many strays since we federated.
NOOOOO
how do we keep getting out tankie’d by hexbear wtf
You’ve got to remember that we spent several years fighting every liberal on reddit and winning so hard the admins had to intervene repeatedly to try to stop us. God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
Does that make Lemmy users the shitposting Sardukar? Still individually worth 10 of the best Landsraad Lib house troops?
I think so. God help us when the fishspeakers show up.
I think libs think our comrades are some how the most tankie of tankies. Giving us the edge.
I do love that they call anarchists tankies, gives me great joy to see them own themselves by going mask off as terminally online radlibs like that
I saw some rage thread on lemm.33 calling the mods tankies for refusing to defed us.
Tankie just means anyone to the left of Biden now.
Please link wtf that’s awesome
on hexbear (can’t see all comments)
a friendly competition to see who can be more communist
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Watching all the chaos that has ensued from the “brigading” is what pushed me to actually make an account on this instance too. You all seem like a really wonderful group of people beneath the pile of emojis and dunking and I found myself genuinely saddened by the idea of defederation so soon after Hexbear started making the place fun.
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The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.
The stenographers all sound like they’re grown in a vat. They all espouse the same views, have the same delusions, etc
Anyone who does actual journalism and not just PR work for the state dept gets driven out of MSM
I literally thought this was a bit from a Hexbear user
repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda.
Now this is dialectics
I’m late to the party, but how do I partake of the whole federation thing? Which are the other active instances? I want to broaden my view…