People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

    • @SCB
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      41 year ago

      At this point Hexbear is essentially co-opted by astroturfing terrorists

      • @grue
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        51 year ago

        Can’t co-opt something when the same people founded it.

      • prole
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        31 year ago

        The 12 year old loser 4channers that thought (probably still think) saying the ‘n’ word is hilarious, turned into 25 year old fascists that think “nihilism” means “make life shitty for everyone else.”

        • mycorrhiza they/them
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          11 year ago

          Who are you talking about right now? Hexbear? Is your basis for who is a fascist just that they are rude to liberals on the internet and have intense feelings about capitalism and imperialism?

        • @SCB
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          01 year ago

          Their disgustingly aggressive support of terrorism is because they are idiots who fall for propaganda

          • mycorrhiza they/them
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            61 year ago

            Or because they are aware of the conditions of life imposed in Palestine?

            That 50% of the children in Gaza express no will to live? That 95% of the water is contaminated and Israel strictly controls the water supply? That thousands of civilians have been killed by the Israeli army since 2008? That Gaza functions as an open air concentration camp administrated by an openly racist apartheid state? That Israel helped fund and create Hamas in the 70s and 80s as a counterweight to the largely secular leftist PLO and this whole fucking situation is partially blowback from an effort to divide-and-conquer Palestine? That Hamas fucking chased the PLO out of Gaza, and now Hamas is essentially the only militant force left that can resist the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians?

            Who else is there for Palestinians to root for? What the fuck are they supposed to do? Just sit in their squalid concentration camp and raise their depressed children to be unemployed adults with no future, in a crumbling city with no concrete to rebuild itself, because a rich nation on the other side of the fence deemed it so?

            And in an overseas media environment where no one even fucking talks about any of this shit, and the attack is being treated as this sudden unprovoked thing out of left field, maybe some people are going to overcorrect in the other direction out of sheer frustration?

            • @SCB
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              -41 year ago

              I’m well aware of conditions of life in Palestine. Perhaps if Hamas allowed elections in the last 20 years, there would be radically different relationships there.

              • mycorrhiza they/them
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                31 year ago

                The elections that determine those conditions are Israeli elections. Israel prevents Palestinians from voting in those.

                • @SCB
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                  -31 year ago

                  That is just completely false. Since seizing power, Hamas has not allowed further elections.

                  I welcome your citation proving otherwise, but ultimately it’s irrelevant because every member of Hamas will ideally be dead soon.

                  • mycorrhiza they/them
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                    21 year ago

                    I am pointing out that people in Gaza are not Israeli citizens, and the conditions in Gaza are imposed by Israel

        • @SCB
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          -11 year ago

          Words have actual meanings

          divert to or use in a role different from the usual or original one.