Does anyone know how to contact President Xi? I need him to drop a nuke on South Korea, for a friend.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    the capitalist media ecosystem is currently filling its pants with shit in fear that any of them could be next, and trying to get the public on their side

    i don’t want to underestimate them tbh, but i also don’t think all that many people really give a shit

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah, there’s so much astroturfed bullshit going around right now, the media of every western nation and western ally is trying to make this out as the worst tragedy in a decade. But most of the people I’ve spoken to aren’t falling for it, most of them understand that he was a piece of shit who deserved what he got. Even very liberal “apolitical” people I know weren’t doing the “thoughts and prayers” thing. This whole thing is entirely astroturfed, no one gave a shit about tinyface, but he is far more useful to them as a martyr than he ever was alive.

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        Yeah it’s uncanny and unsettling to me that they’re holding signs exclusively in English. It’s almost too obvious an American media company printed these.

        Even in the videos the crowd is sounds bored and dead, repeating “we are Charlie Kirk”, nothing else.

        Compared to any protest from my little city, people are singing songs, banging drums, playing guitars cheering, waving every variety of homemade signs and flags, mostly hand painted, sometimes just on cardboard with sharpie.