Inspired by this Jon Bois video where body builders argue about the number of days in a week.

PLEASE be sure to include a link or screen cap.

Edit: thanks to 18107 for a li k to the original

  • @redballooon@lemm.ee
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    42 years ago

    People who deny this often collapse anything the us does with other NATO partners into actual NATO actions.

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      212 years ago

      people genuinely stupid enough to believe nato is defensive in nature have never opened a history book outside of their compulsory schooling

      • Vode AnOP
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        In fairness, propagandists write books about history too. It is entirely possible for a person that isn’t very curious to pick up “normie” pop history stuff and think they are learning.

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          142 years ago

          that is true, but frankly i’m willing to put money down on most people who hold patently incorrect beliefs like “nato is a defensive organization” simply being deeply incurious people who have never investigated anything that’s not immediately relevant to their interests

          • Vode AnOP
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            102 years ago

            That’s probably true, but also quite depressing given the prevalence of the deeply ignorant. Hopefully the average person is better than that.

      • @redballooon@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        I believe comments like this are the reason why people want to defederate hexbear.

        Self-opinionated, aggressive and insulting, all in a few lines of comment. I can’t deny there’s an art in there, but not one that makes one like the artist.

        • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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          152 years ago

          Self-opinionated

          Self-opinionated

          Is this to contrast with your own opinions which instead of generating yourself, you received from the western media?

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          102 years ago

          Self-opinionated, aggressive and insulting

          i’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume you live in a house with no mirrors

          i’m not sorry if my statements give offense when they’re based in reality. want to be treated better? we already have a special tool for that, it’s called “having correct opinions”

        • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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          82 years ago

          go ahead and defederate then, dumbass. nobody is benefitting from reading your stupid, obviously wrong takes

          Death to America

        • booty [he/him]
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          72 years ago

          Self-opinionated

          what the fuck does that even mean? are you just typing shit? this is why people call you names

            • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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              52 years ago

              So when you have opinions and you express those opinions. Sounds like you’re pretty self-opinionated about certain topics because you’ve chosen to snarkily quote the dictionary.

            • booty [he/him]
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              42 years ago

              1 as in opinionated

              so it’s like “irregardless”

              in other words, yes, you’re just saying shit

                • booty [he/him]
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                  42 years ago

                  you’re also “self-opinionated” the only difference is that the opinions you’re stubborn about are wrong

                  • @redballooon@lemm.ee
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                    Look, I weakly challenged the original commenter on a basis which I actually observed in the real world.

                    Since then I only was challenged back in the forms of belittling and insults.

                    Not one word about why NATO would not be a defensive alliance. I left loooots of room for that in my initial response. But no, only insults, and now I am challenged because of the use of a nuanced english word that you people choose to not understand. This is ridiculous.

                    I was indifferent before, but after this experience I support defederating hexbear.

        • @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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          I got banned from hexbear because I called out one of their admins for wanting to open up payments in crypto. Fuck those redfash pieces of shit, they deserve to get defederated. First time I ever wanted to block an entire server, instead I have to block each community one by one. Wouldn’t even remotely be surprised if they ended up having ties to leftypol because their critiques of Israel borderline antisemitism at times.