Seriously, they’re doing my bits for me!
I can’t comment on the locked post, but this
Ah yes, the classic wealthy journalist. Everyone knows that reporting is where the big bucks truly lie. I guess it’s impossible for literally anyone living anywhere but the like 3 countries that pretend to be communist to report on anything accurately.
Is literally poking at the propaganda model described by Herman and Chomsky. The point isn’t that any individual journalist is so loaded that they write to defend their wealth. It’s that they’re selected for their jobs, and are even considered for them in the first place, because they usefully slot into said jobs for the capitalist owners of the journalism outlets. With a few exceptions most of the journalists at, your choice [NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, Time, etc], are there because their pre-existing beliefs. Perfectly exemplified in this Chomsky clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcpcytUnWU
“I don’t say you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
Liberals individualize everything to the point that they think individual reporters and journalists have to be “in on it” in some way to contribute to propaganda.
They don’t even have to believe it, they just have to believe in nothing. If you watch the Chris Cuomo interview on the Adam Friedland Show, the distinct impression is that he doesn’t believe in anything, knows it and is proud of it. Either that or he is doesn’t ever indicate that he believes in anything, knows it and is proud of it. The effect is the same, he is chosen not only because of his connections to politics, but also because of his lack of belief in anything outside of himself. Hell, even he doesn’t believe journalists, but that never stopped him from reporting their stories.
When he talked about how they pivoted without question to the line the Bush admin fed them without any remorse, I wasn’t surprised but I was disappointed.
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Precisely. This stuff was completely deconstructed in Manufactured Consent. You only need to see how many people who were journalists become politicians, and vice versa, to see how intertwined these classes are.
And they all went to the same ivy league schools that churn out clones for alphabet agencies and DC.
Lemmygrad on steroids
Our grad comrades catching way to many strays since we federated.
The other day someone called hexbear “lemmygrad-lite”. Moving up in the world ig
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NOOOOO
how do we keep getting out tankie’d by hexbear wtf
I think libs think our comrades are some how the most tankie of tankies. Giving us the edge.
I do love that they call anarchists tankies, gives me great joy to see them own themselves by going mask off as terminally online radlibs like that
I saw some rage thread on lemm.33 calling the mods tankies for refusing to defed us.
Tankie just means anyone to the left of Biden now.
That was the nudge I needed to make an account over here. I joined midwest.social because it was an explicitly leftist server. I would have been very sad to lose access to the good posts here now that I know about them, and honestly I’m pretty baffled at the number of users native to that instance who are bitching about you all in that thread.
Edit: thank you all so much for the warm welcome ❤️
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I also joined midwest.social because they claimed to be an explicitly leftist instance. It would be extremely disappointing if they defederate.
Hey just letting you know midwest.social does defederate lemmygrad
If you haven’t gotten a welcome glad to have you here.
It’s a little chaotic, there are struggle sessions, but so long as people come with actually open minds it’s generally incredibly friendly here.
Welcome!
Welcome to the bear site! We’re happy to have you.
One of us one of us
Welcome, please enjoy the fine selection of emojis
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Watching all the chaos that has ensued from the “brigading” is what pushed me to actually make an account on this instance too. You all seem like a really wonderful group of people beneath the pile of emojis and dunking and I found myself genuinely saddened by the idea of defederation so soon after Hexbear started making the place fun.
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Fyi a lot of people become full-blown communists by interacting with communists
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Welcome fellow -ite!
Thank you for the warm welcome!
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Welcome!
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One of us one of us
We’re a cult we’re a cult we’re a cult!
Wait I think one of the other instances did accuse of being a cult…
Which isn’t entirely wrong.
Cult of the lamb but it’s a bear that’s hexagonal
welcome, comrade
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OH THOSE MEDDLING HEXBEARS!
repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda.
Now this is dialectics
It’s funny this is the same user whose comment I replied to 10 hours ago telling them about Hexbear being one of the OG instances (which is why it has a lot of users), but they go ahead and make the same thinly veiled “omg they’re botting!” accusation 4 hours later in a whole ass post trying to sneak diss y’all in their home instance.
got his ass
lots of bad faith actors
As I understand it, Hexbear has existed for years before federating with the rest of the network. Someone commented a couple months ago about the closing of the Chapo Traphouse subreddit (2020, same as r/theDonfuck) and users moving there. I believe they already had a strong community before linking up with other instances.
I may be wrong on the details and welcome corrections. Hexbear users: I considered joining your instance when I was still a lurker. Try not to crucify me if I got anything wrong.
We were like the second or third most active subreddit on reddit for a while, and when Spez shut us down some quick thinking people created hexbear as a liferaft. We’ve been growing and mutating in the dark for years while the admins and devs worked on getting our fork from early lemmy to a point where it could re-join mainstream lemmy, which is why we seem like we exploded from nowhere.
I offer you a fishe honored visitor!
Yep, I think we added some features which broke compatibility with mainline lemmy and it took a while to merge back, but we’ve been around for 3 years.
It mostly was pronouns iirc
Our pronouns were too powerful for lemmy
looking for more pronouns to eat
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It just when different lemmy instances (servers) share content and user interactions instead of existing on one giant instance like reddit.
What’s up with Hexbear? They think everything I post is Western Propaganda, why would they ever think that?
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The stenographers all sound like they’re grown in a vat. They all espouse the same views, have the same delusions, etc
Anyone who does actual journalism and not just PR work for the state dept gets driven out of MSM
I literally thought this was a bit from a Hexbear user
The way they tell it, you’d think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people
Class interests? In my privately owned hegemonic media?
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see pee see bots
I’m late to the party, but how do I partake of the whole federation thing? Which are the other active instances? I want to broaden my view…
th they called us racist and neoliberals!
I can’t believe these willingly federated instances are brigading hexbear!
Don’t they know you’re supposed to only stick to your local instance and that anyone who comments from another instance is a bot?
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