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fujiyamasan

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2. Just part of the modern dumbing down

Reply to RandySF (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:42 PM

Oct 7

It doesn’t matter if something is accurate or even real anymore. Sources? Sources are for suckers!

You see it here more frequently as well. Fewer interesting articles, especially anything long form. More “quotes” by some celebrity supposedly saying something that reinforces people’s existing biases or feelings. It then gets a few hundreds recs.

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Greta Thunberg slammed for sharing image of Israeli hostage in post on Palestinian prisoners [View all] question everything Oct 7 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author RandySF Oct 7 #1

Just part of the modern dumbing down fujiyamasan Oct 7 #2

You can open the link and find the images. Yes, it is very real question everything Oct 7 #4

Are you referring to the images of emancipated Israeli hostage. ? fujiyamasan Wednesday #6

We all pay the price JoseBalow Thursday #15

Including a picture of a starving, perhaps dead Israeli hostage in a pro-Hamas post is offensive question everything Oct 7 #3

Social media is the Great Filter TheProle Thursday #13

Shameless performative antisemitism Danmel Oct 7 #5

And the ones who are doing the real work are not grandstanding for the cameras n/t Just_Vote_Dem Wednesday #8

Fame attention seeking piece of shit JI7 Wednesday #7

Greta Thunberg Deletes Post Protesting Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners After Hamas Hostage Pic Mix-Up question everything Thursday #9

Pathetic that she simply deletes but can't make a statement condemning hostage taking fujiyamasan Thursday #17

Benjamin Netanyahu slammed for 64,000 civilian casualties in Gaza. Ping Tung Thursday #10

All Hamas had to do was returned the hostages. They are the ones responsible for the suffering question everything Thursday #11

All the murderer of the kid had to do was not pull the trigger or drop the bomb. Ping Tung Thursday #12

All Hamas had to do was not attack the Israeli homes. You show a body in shrouds, the families of question everything Thursday #14

What did they expect? What does the rest of the world expect? Not genocide in Gaza. Ping Tung Thursday #18

She's alienating a lot of people who used to admire her for her climate work JoseBalow Thursday #16