Maybe someone still believing in the superiority of the west, which clearly we don’t have a monopoly on anymore, China has caught up, exactly as Japan and Korea have done before China.

I genuinely is curious to see the exact same propaganda rolled out against China that Americans deployed against the other Eastern Rim industrial states. India is, similarly, getting a ton of this treatment.

The big difference between China and India/Japan/Korea is the failure of the Chinese government to placidly ingest western neoliberal economic policy and stagnate their economies for a decade as a result.

Iran keeps very good track of these. However, they try their best to hide how many were killed

Where did you get this information?

It’s definitely losing it’s grip. But genuinely frightening to see how many people will still fall back on “Yeah, but I’m glad they’re killing the correct kind of foreigners this time”. As soon as Democrats retake the White House, your head is going to spin to see how many people enthusiastically support more bombings.

now they are stealing our technologies before we have them ourselves!!

I remember when “Chinese students can’t come up with anything new because they’re too indoctrinated by Communist authoritarianism” was a thing normal people genuinely believed.

He’s animate meat with enormous social influence

Neoliberalism at its peak

here we are probably the last unpolluted corners of the human experience

:-/ I seriously doubt that.

At some point, we’ll have to find a better way of sifting the wheat from the shit. But I’d be crazy to assume bots around bouncing around the Lemmiverse pushing misinformation just like they are everywhere else.

let’s not forget all of their own people they killed

It was crazy to hear US news reporting “Iran has killed 30k, 50k, 90k of their own people!!” based on unnamed sources and Facebook memes. Meanwhile, the journalists on the ground in Gaza reporting on the genocide were systematically assassinated by the Israeli government, while hospitals were obliterated, and communications severed. And the US national media response became “information is unreliable so we’re just not going to say a number anymore”.

I wonder how many Iranians killed during the current US/Israel air raids and infrastructure annihilation will be retroactively counted as “The Iranians killed themselves”, once American journalists finally make their way back into the country.

The messenger is awful

I’ll take ten Mojtaba Khameneis over one Pete Hegseth. Hell, I’ll take a Khamenei over Keir Starmer, at this point.

Of course, he’s little more than a figurehead under the current Iranian government, given that their Parliament can’t safely convene and their military is fully operating via the Mosaic Strategy of decentralized retaliation against ongoing US/Israeli bombardment. I’m not sure why people have decided he’s a bad leader, given that he hasn’t made any meaningful leadership decisions since taking office.

But I guess he’s Muslim and unseasonably tan, so that’s enough to make him a bad guy.

I don’t want to be that guy but… that’s just because Conservatives skew older. And they’ve been skewing older for generations.

The right wing propaganda machine is geared towards insulting young people and pandering to old people. Consequently, independents and unaligned voters and squishy liberals skew conservative as they get older.

But we had this dynamic under Bush. We had it under Reagan. We had it under Nixon. You need to run all the way back to FDR to find an elder plurality for the liberal party. And that was only because of Dixiecrat southerners trading on progressive economics to sustain their apartheid social order.

Bigotry skews older. 70s feminists become 90s Girl Bosses become 10s TERFs. Millennial rainbow techbros become Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Your parents go insane from Fox News playing in the background for twenty years.

Everyone goes to Reddit, despite it being an AI Bot filled shit show

Search engines direct you to Reddit as a first page - even first result - choice. It’s superceded Wikipedia in a lot of cases.

Critical support to the real MVPs

The sheriff’s office has requested patience while they continue to look into the intricate case; no charges have been brought thus yet.

:-/

The shelter has accepted 900 animals since it opened at the beginning of 2025

Nothing in the article seems to want to say how the shelter was funded, what animals they were receiving, how much staffing they had, who was giving them the animals, who the fuck Miranda is outside of the fall girl…

your fascist regime is interfering in my country’s politics as well.

We absolutely are. But modern Australia was built as a colonial project. Both the US and Australia are an extension of that centuries old Anglo project to extract the wealth of the world.

It’s all one global fascist project, and the Australian oligarchs are more than happy to play along

Plenty of white nationalists among the domestic elite. It’s practically a prerequisite to join certain social clubs and fraternities.

But white supremacy isn’t just a belief, it’s a goal. Plenty of very smart, savvy, and committed individuals are working overtime to jam their collective boots on our necks.

You joke, but this is 100% in the Old Testament.

It’s propaganda poisoning all the way down.

The Russians, the Americans, and the Brits are all choking on their version of Nationalist Exceptionalism as all three countries nosedive.

it cant be repealed

I mean, we’ll see what the SCOTUS has to say

This is you saying there’s a “shortage” of people willing to work for unlivable wages

The work has value that far exceeds the wages being paid

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