you forgot Place, North Korea: Either paid actors or oooh so spooky literally 1969, there are government spies in the tree, the nort corean gobernment doesnt want us to see this photo and/or this photo was staged by the govornament for propaganda! Basically how they react to China but x10

Winchester (the firearms manufacturer) dropping (killing) game (wildlife in the context of hunting)

you dont own anything under socialism? thats crazy. let me check the list of countries by home ownership rate rq

here’s the original publication: meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/

…i’m not sure what you’re getting at, maybe i didnt summarize properly. give the article a read and see if it makes sense to ya.

the article very clearly explains that. Give it a read, it’s not that long.

…but if you aren’t going to read it, the summary is that the way we think ads work, associating brands with positive emotions (termed “emotional inception” in this article), is bollocks. Instead, they rely on “cultural imprinting”, i.e. associating the brand with a kind of person or situation. For example, corona is the beer for relaxing on the beach, nike and gatorade are for athletes. So, if you want to relax with some homies, you drink corona. If you value athletic performance, you drink gatorade and wear nike shoes. Major exceptions apply, please just read the article.

i had a long reply that i accidentally deleted but conveniently this book about Stalin just came out that should give you an infinitely more nuanced “history and critique” of Stalin than the average westerner could imagine exists.

TL;DR Stalin is a complicated figure, just like everyone else. The cartoon villain picture of Stalin that western propagandists have been building for almost a full century now isn’t real, no one likes the “eastern hitler” caricature that doesn’t exist. We like Josif Stalin, the real person who existed, did great things, did bad things. a lot of what you think you know is simply false, and to understand why we “like” Stalin, you have to learn who Stalin really was, and find out what you think you know about him, the Soviet Union, and communism as a whole, that is just plain wrong.

sorry about the downvotes and dunking that are going to come to you, some folks around here have trouble distinguishing genuine questions and bad faith trolls.

i can’t find this video on f*x’s channel, probably fake but i also didnt search very well bc it’s still funny and i dont care.

but if someone does have a link share it here, it look hilarious

i really should have made the image more obviously leftist, by all means you could see this in a fash community and not seem out of place at all.

inb4 horseshoe theory

it’s unfortunate that righties learned the word “liberal”, causing confusion like this. but it’s funny that so many of them technically are liberals if you want to be pedantic with definitions

it’s the “i’m almost enjoying my anger!” mood, the deliberate exposure to things you don’t like for the catharsis and/or sense of superiority that’s not unique to internet libs, see also ‘shit X says’ communities that exist everywhere under the sun.

…and liberals once again thinking their votes matter 😎

really just said “nuh uh” 😭 how did you stumble into lemmygrad

from the pinned post in r/TheDeprogram:

We recently received a formal warning from the Reddit Admins that we need to emphasize the following part of Rule #2, (which is really Rule #1, according to Reddit policy):

Use screenshots or an archiving service. If the content is coming from a non-leftist subreddit, please censor all usernames and the subreddit name as well. If you must link to somewhere else on reddit that isn’t politically aligned, please use the non-participant (np) variant of the URL. (e.g., https://np.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram)

If we do not want the sub to be quarantined or banned, we need to take this seriously.

well no matter how well they follow the rules i give the sub six months before it gets chapo trap house’d. no good commie sub lives that long after getting so much notoriety.

i havent verified for myself but i believe Deepin has proprietary components that make it not “truly” open-source like Kylin. or at least that’s what ive heard.