Yiazmat

when I was a lib I used to like The Daily Show because it was kinda cathartic to watch them mock conservatives.

However I remember one episode where they were covering a story about students at Berkeley protesting the marines opening up a recruiting office on campus, and basically the entire segment was them shitting on these kids. The students were anti-war and didn’t want the US military recruiting future killers on their campus. The Daily Show even had their news correspondent Rob Riggle (retired marine) interviewing students and trapping them in ridiculous “gotchas” to make them look dumb. It was one of the first moments as a baby leftist where I was like “wait… why are they doing this? those kids are right to not want the military at their school.” And watching this thickneck piece of shit Riggle bully young people who obviously don’t know enough to “debate” him while a camera is shoved in their face was infuriating.

Then later I watched Stewart perform at USO shows in Iraq and Afghanistan (among other places) to entertain these imperialist tools and I just lost any shred of respect I still had for him. He even had that awful “Rally to Restore Sanity” event in D.C. which was effectively a giant centrist circlejerk that accomplished absolutely nothing. I haven’t even paid attention to anything he’s done since but I’m not the least bit surprised that he’s still a dipshit.

It’s genuinely terrifying seeing how easily people accepted Israel’s bullshit. It feels like everyone just turned off the critical thinking part of their brains

those fucking losers need to leave cats out of this

I’ve been seeing a lot of “It was a failed strike by Hamas and the reason it did so much damage was because they were storing ammo in the hospital” or similar dumb shit on social media. I swear these people would believe “Aliens did it” before they would entertain the thought of Israel intentionally dropping a bomb on a hospital

Like another comment here touched on, if I’m not totally sure of the person’s politics I’ll usually just criticize the US/west from an anti-imperialist angle. It’s useful because actual comrades will quickly pick up on what type of person I am (and maybe agree or make similar comments themselves) while other people will usually either politely nod or change the subject.

If it’s a situation where I really don’t want the people within earshot to know about my politics then I keep to uncontroversial statements. Like when the Ukraine conflict kicked off last year my coworkers were talking about it and while I wanted to say something about liquidating Nazis, I just said I felt bad for the innocents caught up in it and I hope it ends soon. Most people aren’t gonna give you shit for saying “I don’t want innocent people to die” lol.

Shortly after 9/11 I was seeing bumper stickers on cars that said “MUSLIM HUNTING PERMIT” with a picture of crosshairs over a brown guy wearing a turban. I also remember watching the news in 2003 which had a live feed from a US tank invading Iraq in real-time, and the news anchors were excitedly talking about how cool it was and how brave our soldiers were. Even at the time I was thinking “this is fucked”

Mom! they’re getting all the attention!! Mooooooom!!!

man I had to take a bit of break from social media over the last few days because seeing the horrid takes about Palestine has my blood pressure rising

OiNK, too. I was a teenager when it went down and it was devastating lol

lol @ people in that thread pointing out that a few days ago OP said they were Peruvian

Rules-based international order

“And youre welcome” oh fuck off

it reads like a reddit comment

lol those screenshots which are supposed to be an example of how authoritarian that mod is, and under every ban/comment removal there’s like “Reason: Rule 1,” “Reason: no sources,” or “Reason: spam.”

why are these authoritarian tankies banning people for breaking rules and posting claims with no evidence!? the horror

I had someone do that to me on reddit but it was the wiki page for “Human rights in China” lmao

some hilarious quotes from that thread:

I wouldn’t want to be there right now on either side. But basically the Ukrainians are winning because their artillery is better. Once Ukraine moves their artillery within range of the highway along the Sea of Azov, the troops protecting Crimea will have their supplies threatened. This is the general plan and they’re getting closer.

Russia is rapidly becoming a weak vassal state of China because of Ukraine. If that’s not leverage, I don’t know what is…the war is very stupid for Putin to continue.

All these media outlets trying so hard to avoid calling him a Nazi. “…fought with Nazi unit,” “…fought against the Russians in World War II,” “…belonged to anti-Soviet nationalist group,” and so on. Reminds me of when US news orgs report on police killing someone and they call it an “officer-involved shooting.”

lol this is the type of editing joke you would see in a Naked Gun movie or something. Like Drebin is giving a speech and then it cuts to the audience and he’s sitting there watching the speech while Ed glances at him and then does a double take

i know it’s a meme but fr tho crabs/lobsters/shrimp have always grossed me out and the few times i’ve tried them i wanted to barf

Ever since I was younger, like before I was even radicalized, I’ve hated ads so much. There’s something very off-putting (and often insulting) about businesses constantly blasting you with their product or service.

I used to really enjoy watching the NBA but now every time I try it’s just “Here are the Lexus™ Keys to the Game,” “Welcome to the half time show brought to you by Subway™,” ad breaks every two minutes of game time (and even more frequently towards the end of a close game), giant company logos on the court, or more recently logos on their god damned jerseys. It’s like you can’t watch any live event any more without having ads shoved in your face.

Even when I’m watching/listening to something on my phone and an ad interrupts I will straight up mute the volume and physically look away just so I don’t see the ad. I agree with Yogthos that it feels like a “constant psychological assault.” I fucking hate it. Bless whoever invented ad block extensions on browsers because without them I would go insane.