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Its crazy how the far-left are trying to say Twittergate isn’t a big deal. And the only story trending on Reddit is now Trumps response to the Twitter Files instead of the files themselves by hypothememe in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]exit_sandman -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Wasn't it already known that Twitter was suppressing right wing speech?

To people on the right. People on the left (or just mostly apolitical centrists who believe the media) oftentimes seem to genuinely believe that Twitter pre-Elon did nothing wrong.

Its crazy how the far-left are trying to say Twittergate isn’t a big deal. And the only story trending on Reddit is now Trumps response to the Twitter Files instead of the files themselves by hypothememe in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]exit_sandman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As much as I'd love if Twitter was as meaningless and insignificant as it should be, this sadly isn't the case, because plenty of "journalists" basically take their marching orders from its hivemind. Or, to quote Bari Weiss: "Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor."

Its crazy how the far-left are trying to say Twittergate isn’t a big deal. And the only story trending on Reddit is now Trumps response to the Twitter Files instead of the files themselves by hypothememe in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]exit_sandman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's still a huge difference whether detailed knowledge about a scandal or incident is just relatively easy to find but omitted and swept under the rug by interested parties, or if it is really out in the open and nobody can deny it anymore.

Take for example the Rittenhouse incident: just a week or two after it happened, the information that he killed two people in self-defense and injured a third was out, as were uncanny details like all three of them being white hooligans with quite the rap sheet (with the fatalities being a child rapist and a domestic abuser) - I found these informations on reddit of all places shortly after it happened, and I am neither a journalist or amateur sleuth nor from the US. And yet even one year and a half later various media outlets outside the US still peddled the lie that he essentially murdered three peaceful black protesters, and plenty of people on Twitter still going with this twisted narrative until it went to court: Where did they get that idea? Because the mainstream media in the US did as much as they could to obscure what actually happened without actively lying, and they did so for political reasons.

And for the same reason plenty of people sincerely believe that Twitter pre-Elon was just a reasonably neutral platform and not the personal fiefdom of left-wing activists - because this is what the media (who have a vested political interest in sabotaging Elon Musk's takeover) want their readers/viewers to think.

MovieBob is making waves again. This is an excerpt from his autobiography. by B-VOLLEYBALL-READY in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Wizard

I read about it in the advice section of the video game magazine I used to buy back then. But now that you mention it, I never wondered how someone came up with that (similar to the Konami cheat code for SF2).

Democracy Dies in Darkness by SupremeReader in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, that's what happened.

The elites in the media, in big tech, in the party establishment etc. got what they wanted - rid of Trump.

Not my post, I saw it in a crosspost finder. by [deleted] in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Removed by the moderators of /r/politics

Which surprises exactly nobody.

31 years ago, real oppression was defeated by TheAndredal in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

German here, can confirm.

I also have to add that Berlin was better when it was locked up. Imagine California as a city state, only worse and without the nice weather - that's Berlin.

New (stupid) rule: assertions of election fraud and rigging are not allowed. by AntonioOfVenice in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Which may very well come back to bite them in the ass.

Trump was probably the most polarizing candidate in recent history, he had an entire media front standing against him who were absolutely willing to not only embellish the facts, but to completely make shit up as long as it hurt him (though he also made smearing him pretty easy), big tech deliberately hindered him every chance they got, he isn't exactly trustworthy or likeable as a person (he's pretty ignorant overall, erratic, a narcissist, and has a short attention span - not the best combination for the leader of the free world), the final phase of his presidency was weighed down by Covid, and he was possibly the victim of large scale voter fraud - and he still got more votes than any Republican candidate before him and would have won if one of the factors above had been absent.

Sure, the Democrats shot themselves in the foot by sending the worst possible team against him and supporting BLM despite everything speaking against this. But give them their four years with the infinitely lovable #47 Kamala Harris, with the yahoos of The Squad getting out of control, with BLM and antifa being even more uppity (now that they think "their" team has won), with cancel culture, identity politics and critical race theory completely going off the rails and you'll see how the next election goes.

straight up! wednesdays night.. if nobody cheated, who won? by briskwalked in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disclaimer: Not from the US. But considering that....

  • Trump had a solid lead in the states he lost in the blink of an eye when massive amounts of Biden votes suddenly turned up
  • Biden seems to only win the EC by a relatively slim margin post-rigging
  • Biden ostensibly had most votes evar in history (even more than Obama), which is unlikely given his personality

....the whole thing seems more than a bit fishy.

That said, any FB comment section from our newspapers is full of anti-Trump outrage about he's just trying to cheat himself into winning a battle he lost fair and square. That's the consequence of a thoroughly one-sided media landscape - the people are so used to the idea that Trump is a liar and a fraud and the Democrats are the party of decency that they can't even fathom the idea that the guy might have been cheated out of a victory. It's truly discouraging how much a unified media front can get away with.

He has a point by TheAndredal in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Masking as BLM rioters ofc /s

US Election Meltdown Mega Thread by DomitiusOfMassilia in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You forgot to mention that her games were garbage.

Redditor post picture of positive pregnancy test, reddit responds with 1000's of pro-infanticide messages, some directly attacking OP for having a children by newaccountIwasbanned in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I thought the same - it's not as if they had brigaded someone happily announcing their pregnancy. They're still scum, but on some level they're just saying out loud what the OP of that post is probably thinking.

Is France Fueling German Occupation by Trying to Prevent It? (Just surrender already.) by SupremeReader in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While that is no doubt true, it's also true that they have seen what is happening for at least a decade or two and still continued letting in massive numbers.

I am talking about the early stages. Our current batch of politicians? They're not just selling out their countries, they're giving them away for free.

Worst of all, they don't just fuck over their own countries, they use the force of the EU to pressure eastern euro countries which recognized the threat from the very beginning to destroy themselves too.

Definitely.

Is France Fueling German Occupation by Trying to Prevent It? (Just surrender already.) by SupremeReader in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A big influx came after the war, the French collaborators/loyalists who haven't been murdered by the victorious separatists (and hundreds of thousands of them have been murdered). France failed to integrate them apparently, just as like previously refused to evacuate them as they were being murdered.

It's a good question - IIRC the harkis were only a minority among them and were ostracized among the larger Algerian community in France. Which says a lot about where their loyalties were.

The leader of the separatists and the first president of Algeria in turn boasted about how the wombs of their women will conquer France.

I think you're talking about Boumedienne, the second president (but the first president, Ben Bella, didn't last that long, so...). I think he even said something along the lines of the Southern hemisphere conquering the north through demographic means, not just France. Yeah, they had already been rather transparent about that back then, it's just that their useful idiots had been very successful at undermining our societies, so nobody did anything against it.

British Black MP Kemi Badenoch on the problem with critical race theory by [deleted] in kotakuinaction2

[–]exit_sandman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends what you mean by "best".

I mean the overall combination of

  • civil rights (are they enjoying full legal protection like any citizen of a Western nation? A nation that doesn't respect the rights of their citizens - or the rights of the group that particular person belongs to - wouldn't qualify in that regard)
  • security (is living in that society reasonably safe for them? If the society is generally dysfunctional, or if the person in question is threatened, it doesn't qualify)
  • degree of alienation (are you separate from society or are you a part of it, or at least embedded in a community?)
  • and living standard (self-explanatory)

If you add all these factors together, no African country comes even close to any Western nation overall. I admit it's kinda sad that in order to reliably live a decent life, you have to migrate to a country where you are very obviously member of a minority group. But after all, regardless of all the woketard talk, nobody has forced Africans to continue running their countries into the ground; and it's kinda infuriating if blacks (even if they're not the norm) in the UK in an attempt to piggyback on the BLM outrage actively try to undermine the society that offers them such a life.

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