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whats easier to believe? donald trump is a self interested piece of subhuman dog shit? or putin has some wild shit to blackmail him with yet has for some reason demanded nothing other than “make yourself and your family rich at american people’s expense”?

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    USAans have this weird thing going on where they think that every president, even the ones they don’t like, are acting out of a desire to improve the nation

    Trump is laying bare the vile nature of the US government and they can’t accept it, so the construction of a narrative where Trump is compromised and not a real American has to occur

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      A fundamental part of our indoctrination that is deeply ingrained into our collective national character is the belief that The State is created and staffed of, by, and for the People. The bourgeois political education flattens class dynamics into class collaboration and intentionally omits, distorts, or outright fabricate information to shape it into perfect facts to educate the youth into slumber and dream of the American dream.

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    3 months ago

    Ads? Comrade, you deserve better than this.

    Block 'em, it’s good for your health and reduces the ability of Porky to track you.

      • naom3 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        nextdns has an app on the ios app store that works

        Edit: apple is actually pretty decent on system level addblockers since they hurt google’s business not theirs

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        3 months ago

        i use adguard to block ads on most shit on my phone but reddit ads still show

        Ah, I didn’t realize adguard doesn’t cover those.

        • godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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          3 months ago

          there is apparently a way with adguard to block youtube ads using dns but it also ends up breaking the internet sometimes apparently. so rather than fucking with all that i’m just waiting til my phone becomes unusable and i’m getting an android next time. (on a 2021 iphone se so should be soon)

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I’m not saying Putin has or doesn’t have blackmail.

    What I do know is that you don’t need blackmail to convince a USA president to blow up Latinos. Never once was required. They do it all on their own.

    Now, I can see Putin having an agenda and interest in Europe, but this is just more of what Putin and Dubya/Obama did. I wrote a paper in college in 2004 about thawing relations between the USA and Russia. What it boiled down to was Russia agreed not to fuck with Bush’s war on terror if Bush gave Putin a free hand in places like Dagestan. That’s all it has ever been.

    Is it really impossible for libs to believe that there are palms getting greased, here? That these institutions have designs and momentums etc? That this is bigger than the Cheeto in chief?

    • Syndication@lemmy.today
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      Seeing those ads makes me grateful to have left that corporate shithole and to be on the fediverse. I haven’t seen a single one on Jerboa thankfully.