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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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year 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

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            1 year ago

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

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        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.