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  • I appreciate you posting this, and I truly enjoy the gag, but can I just shake my fist for a moment and whine about the modern state of overused captions on memes? Back in my day, this was the meme, plain and simple:

    No need for any of these takes/captions from netizens. It seems like these days, any given meme is below 4 or 5 levels of reddit title -> the retweeter -> the person quoting the retweet -> the person memeing on the retweet quoter…

    Anyway, thanks for letting me be crochety and vent. Like I said, love the gag (as well as all of your other splendid posts, so thanks for posting)







  • Coming into a comment thread that is calling out the manufacturing consent against Iran, and bleating “but Xinjiang!” is whataboutism if I’ve ever seen it.

    And yes, you are parroting Zenz. He is the source of this myth - via countless western sources regurgitating the same claims he’s been making since 2018.

    In March 2017, the Jamestown Foundation (Washington DC) published a three thousand-word report on “Xinjiang’s Rapidly Evolving Security State” written by Adrian Zenz and James Leibold.1 A few months later, the same writers published another report, this one slightly longer at nearly five thousand words, with the more aggressive title, “Chen Quanguo: The Strongman Behind Beijing’s Securitization Strategy in Tibet and Xinjiang.”2 At that time, there was not much interest in these stories. Zenz came from the Victims of Communism Foundation, a nonprofit organization set up by the U.S. Congress in 1993 and funded by various right-wing sources, including the Heritage Foundation.

    You decided to offer the opinions of countries like Saudi Arabia

    And, ya know, a plethora of others that you decided to ignore for some reason… Associating a large swath of Muslim and Arab nations with human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia really lets your racism show.







  • Ferrous@lemmy.mltoGames@hexbear.netSomehow Geraldo returned
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    13 days ago

    The world was one of the nicest looking I’ve seen

    Absolutely. The variety among the different regions was so perfectly done. From the swaps, to skellige, and finally toussaint was such a great sequence. And they also paced you through these different regions perfectly.

    Though, I may be biased because this was one of the first games I got to experience on a proper gaming PC. Really great game.