Trump has frankly gotten embarrassed at every debate he’s done, but the media handicaps him so hard that the narrative ends up being about everything his opponent does. So of course he’s going to do the debate. He’s going to say bat shit crazy things, he’s going to lie, he’s going to be cringe as fuck and he’ll probably say a bunch of racist and sexist things.

And the next day all the media will talk about is the time Harris sneezed or slightly mispronounced some word or some shit.

Her AMRAAM could easily be hidden by that outfit

this is being misread right?

Literally repeats the same exact transphobic propaganda.

These people are fucking certifiable. This narrative is not rare or hidden on .ml or hexbear, and it’s absolutely amazing to watch these people finally being forced to confront it.

Is anyone still actually confused about the very obvious link between tankies and right wing trolls?

Not vaccinating your children is child abuse

Pretty much the only other time I have seen any transphobia on Lemmy is from a .ml user who called someone a chaser for saying they were married to a femboy. These people don’t actually care about LGBT issues - they are just trolls who use it as a cudgel when it is convenient.

But like, not if anyone you respect is around

This is a good take, but I really fucking hate the constant “we go high” shit.

This broke just from me looking at it.

OFF THE WALL ANTICUMMUNISM

Is that something people were asking for?

You can literally travel to China and find out yourself

They all have .ml and .world accounts now too. If you dig through hexbear you can find plenty of threads straight up exhorting the creation of troll alts.

Nah, I think Lemmy is treated as a training ground. Think about this - if an actual Russian or Chinese state propaganda agency approached Dessalines and offered to fund Lemmy development in exchange for getting their agents on the admin list, how quickly would he nut himself?

Yes, a significant portion of them are high fiving over their cubicle walls in Russia and China. I am convinced that Lemmy is a training ground for these efforts before they get moved up to Facebook and reddit.

It’s pretty easy to spot the difference between the propagandists and the teenagers though. Teenagers are not well connected to history or world events and clearly just work within their very small bubble of edgy contrariness. The propagandists have a broader self awareness and regurgitate or even connect multiple talking points much more skillfully. Though on Lemmy, “skillfully” needs some qualification, since there is a lot of really bad and transparent propaganda here. Like I said, it’s clearly the practice squad, with a handful of higher profile lieutenants.

What a fun project to work on. A truly unique engineering challenge with no history to draw from.

I legitimately had a neighbor tell me “this is a truck neighborhood.” In a “joking, not joking” sort of situation.

Thank mr skeltal

Almost all of these “national security” trials are done in complete secret by the Adjudicative Committee, which is a political CCP body that oversees the public legal system. Its exact workings are a state secret, but it generally reviews all court proceedings and defers to the public court for most matters. However for any case which involves foreign affairs or national security, there is a high chance that the Adjudicative Committee will hold a national security trial in secret and deliver the verdict to the appointed trial judge, who will read the verdict into the public record.

You don’t even have to say it. Go hand out “free Taiwan” pamphlets in tiananmen square and I promise you that you will be arrested extremely quickly and tried in secret. Your “trial” will be a judge telling your lawyer the charges, verdict and sentence to an otherwise empty courtroom. If you are very lucky you will be deported with time served.

Source: I have family in China who are quiet dissidents.