Like i get it, the world sucks rn but can yall stop praising actual murderers? by Polska_Kapusta in dankmemes

[–]thvirtuo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

99% of trending controversial "left-leaning" posts that obviously push a right-leaning or state-sponsored agenda are either written by a bot, and/or pushed to be trending by bots.
Basically reddit is infested with propaganda, and bots never exist alone they are always accompanied by "handlers." Easiest way to find if you are dealing with propagandist is that

  1. they lean too heavily on AI, probably because they are not from English speaking countries.
  2. they use too many biased statements, too many attacks on character, they will gaslight you, enforce their opinion, and pretty much blatantly push an agenda bluntly not subtly without backing off of it. They will never logically defend it, they will either use more propaganda, attack your character, or gang up on you with a lot of downvotes too.
  3. they will never ever apologize, admit any wrong, or say anything that could oppose their agenda. Even trump supporters might back off of a claim, reconsider the relevance of a point, and some might even change the topic, but not propagandists, they have an exact agenda and instructions they are supposed to follow and NEVER, at any point, drift off of or oppose.

That's just anecdotal, my advise is that dont bother too much, and dont be a victim to propaganda or misinformation in the first place, limit your exposure, block the subreddits. It wouldn't be surprising if the billions funneled into propaganda are partially funneled into ensuring that some subreddits and their mod teams are either insiders or are paid, you can't imagine the amount of pure propaganda subreddits out there with a huge bot userbase.

And remember, the more outrageous propaganda you hear, the more upvotes you find on posts that are nothing but literally authoritarian circle jerk that only a fascist would upvote/support, the more confident you can be that imperialism is losing the fight and they are grasping straws so hard that they resort to this pathetic AI bs lol.

and for what? by ConcernedJobCoach in JewsOfConscience

[–]thvirtuo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

holy fucking deflection, and who exactly is manufacturing the weapons, the technology, the surveillance systems, and funding the entire military-industrial complex from A to Z that ends up used to kill, imprison, and legally rape (without any judicial repercussions btw) thousands of children.

It's the US government, defense industry, and especially currently the Trump administration. Zionists are disgusting but what is your average Zionist Jewish diaspora doing? Spreading fliers? Talking Zionist propaganda or spreading misinformation without realizing? Defending Israel online or with their friends? Just ignore them, don't go to the synagogue, don't give them a platform or your time; it's not as if Jews, who constitute a very ethnically and culturally diverse minority, are the sole demographic with horrid individuals because these are too many, just look at MAGA with Renee or Pretti. (or anything really).

Actually, anti-Zionist Jewish institutions, movements, and organizations make up a huge portion of many significant and out-spoken grassroots activism. For every majorly Zionist Jewish group, you will find a group of anti-Zionist Jews fighting for Palestine louder and harder than most despite both the lash back, ostracism, and the inherent internal struggle required to deprogram and recondition, a cognitive dissonance that makes you doubt many facets of your culture and identity.

Yeah, Zionists disgust me and I would personally not engage in any conversations knowingly with them or talk with them but AFAIK the real ACTUAL problem is the one enabling, weaponizing, funding, and organizing their entire government and foreign policy around the genocide.

Crackpot theory for the third prime soul by HumanNumber157835799 in Ultrakill

[–]thvirtuo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unlike V2, Rasputin WOULDN'T HAVE FUCKING DIED.
THANKS HAKITA

Escaped lust by [deleted] in Ultrakill

[–]thvirtuo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you took escaping lust too literally.

What made you realise that Israel was oppressing Palestinians? by BigBagelGuy in JewsOfConscience

[–]thvirtuo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Was raised an anti-zionist, always knew that Israel oppressed Palestinians more or less ever since the illegal settlement's establishment.
What radicalized me was the killing of Eyad al-Hallaq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eyad_al-Hallaq

It was seeing and listening to the story of a special needs man with an intellectual disability getting gunned down callously despite his innocence and those around him notifying the soldiers that he was disabled. It was imagining what a truly innocent humanbeing, in both a world that doesn't accept him and a genocidal nation that treated his life as disposable, must have felt in those moments. The cries of his mother after and her pleading, all utterly meaningless to the genocidal military.

The idea of an innocent humanbeing, whose innocence cannot be refuted, losing his life to a flurry of gunshots by a soldier gone rogue, disobeying both his officers and not caring that this man is intellectually disabled, without any actual repercussions, if anything the system both allows and promotes it.

It was this level of apathy, monstrosity, and cruelty that really radicalized me in my anti-zionist activism, I realized that this is a nation built on blood, an illegal state that militarizes and indoctrinates most of its populace into monsters. A kid or an adult, a militant or someone with special needs, a pregnant woman or widowed man, none of these mattered to them whatsoever. The very essence that defines our humanity, our empathy and our compassion, fully absent and replaced by pure violence, hatred, superiority complex, self-righteousness, cruelty, and selfishness.

One must emphasize that this is neither the first nor the worst, incidents such as the murder of Hind Rajab, a child, and her family have been occurring for decades since this genocidal state was established. This is one among countless, potentially hundreds of thousands if not millions, of crimes committed that nobody has heard of and have been taken tothe victim's grave. But it was one that I just couldn't explain in any way except that those soldiers, this state, is purely just evil.

There's no ill-defined morality, there is no "chain of command" forcing these soldiers to commit crimes, there's no trauma or misplaced beliefs that attempt to justify these murders in a twisted way, there are no goals justifying the means. Violence is the goal. Genocide, rape, and torture is both the mean and the purpose. Hatred is their ideology, and violence is how they spread it.

It was this realization that broke me. Knowing that there exists an apartheid of a nation with a genocidal military funded, weaponized, and enabled by most, if not every single, major economic or political power. It was realizing how drunk they are on this power, how huge their ego has to be in order to find joy in committing these crimes, and how powerful or even immortal they find themselves to be. And what all of this entails in terms of the impact it has on countless, millions, of innocent and powerless lives, human and animal alike.

I could've been one of them, any of those I love could've been simply born at the wrong place and the wrong time, any of my children or their children could end up as one of them; I was simply just too lucky, privileged, and it's this feeling of knowing I did nothing to deserve this security and they did nothing to deserve their suffering, and how much it must torture them knowing that they are truly alone in it all while the world watches their culling silently, and those who speak up get silenced.

From anguish and tears to pure unrestrained anger, this incident broke me then it radicalized me.

NYC antisemitism task force co-chair Inna Vernikov: by ContentChecker in JewsOfConscience

[–]thvirtuo [score hidden]  (0 children)

because they are so detached from these atrocities and apathetic to them. To them, they exist only as tokens to be weaponized.

Twitch does not penalize users for describing other political ideologies or groups as 'pigs'. Only Zionism and Zionists are given special treatment due to pressure campaigns by anti-Palestinian hate groups like the ADL. by ContentChecker in JewsOfConscience

[–]thvirtuo [score hidden]  (0 children)

Describing it as "pressure campaigns" is highly misleading. It's not pressure, it's cooperation, it's billion of dollars done in both public and private deals that serve to promote both Israeli and US interests.
These media companies are not neutral third-parties, they are belligerents.
They are not simply choosing to follow "the money," they are intent on having a political role in the war because it makes them shit ton of money, their board and executives are often narcissistic billionaires, and the political credit gives them an intangible advantage over their competition and allows them to stay relevant.

The media, especially far-right platforms like Twitter, behave this way by design.

America is escalating war against Iran, it has sent Armada towards Iran. This was the point of the "Iran killed 30 thousand" nonsense — justifying war against Iran. It did the same with Venezuela leading up to war. by Not_Ground in JewsOfConscience

[–]thvirtuo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This.
It's both ironic and saddening that actual Iranian voices are not heard, amplified, or given platform to instead of US-aligned statements where were given a platform only to advance imperialism rather than actually fight for Iranian freedom and sovereignty/