Imperialism and illicit drugs commonly go together. However, with Taliban opium eradication efforts in full effect, heroin is in short supply, and experts fear that a new fentanyl crisis could be brewing in the US.
I’m obviously biased as an accursed tankie myself, but looking at this thread:
1.) The article wasn’t even posted by a hexbear user.
2.) The level of discourse seems to be pretty level between hexbear natives and other users.
3.) The failure of the US to fight illicit opium production in Afghanistan, despite it being a public aim of the US and its allied government in Afghanistan, is well documented. Just doing a quick look, here’s a New York post article (I know, I know, but it’s well sourced, and certainly not leftist): Why the only winner of America’s war in Afghanistan is opium
. It cites the Afghanistan papers and a variety of US and Afghan officials, and illustrates a timeline on how every program implemented by the US to combat opium production only intensified cultivation. The success of the Taliban government in cracking down on it despite far more limited resources suggests either gross incompetence or malice on the part of the US government.
EDIT: I will also point out that the harshest criticism of the US here is from a user from your own instance. That wouldn’t even be allowed on hexbear, so glass houses.
Their complaint with The Donald is that they were mean, and we’re mean, so we must be exactly the same, because liberalism is about being civil and fascism is about being incivil.
You see, brigading is when content that I am interested in is algorithmically prioritized in my feed and I interact with it. The more algorithmically prioritized the content is, the more it’s an inorganic brigade.
No dont you understand Hexbear is an evil cabal who organizes raiding certain posts. What? You cant see that anywhere on their instance? Huh… they must be hiding it… uh… somewhere.
Whenever leftists post outside of their home instance it inevitably breaks down into a rehashed version of “This is America, why can’t you speak American?”
This entire thread is justification for telling hexbear to fuck off.
Why exactly? You have not given a reason. Vaguely gesturing at the thread full of people criticising the US is not a very good reason, unless you are an angry american nationalist.
Glad to see that your instance filter is working. Everyone should be free to curate the content they see.
For the benefit of others, checking your comment history, it is hilarious to me that you’ve never posted in your home instance even once and have the audacity to call us brigadiers.
This entire thread is justification for telling hexbear to fuck off. These goons are trying to create a leftist version of The_Donald.
edit: and nothing of value is lost.
edit2: lol, look at all the brigading shitheel goons I get to ignore.
The_Donald is when you have entirely different politics from The_Donald.
This isn’t even your instance lmao.
???
I’m obviously biased as an accursed tankie myself, but looking at this thread:
EDIT: I will also point out that the harshest criticism of the US here is from a user from your own instance. That wouldn’t even be allowed on hexbear, so glass houses.
This is not a thing which is possible.
Their complaint with The Donald is that they were mean, and we’re mean, so we must be exactly the same, because liberalism is about being civil and fascism is about being incivil.
something something, “liberals don’t understand words, only tone”
Like dogs!
Is… are you coming out as a fan of the heroin industrial complex here? Are you really mad we don’t support Big Heroin ™️
All things I don’t like are exactly the same, united in their nature of me not liking them.
Behold the Redditor
Another redditer who doesn’t understand how federation works.
You see, brigading is when content that I am interested in is algorithmically prioritized in my feed and I interact with it. The more algorithmically prioritized the content is, the more it’s an inorganic brigade.
No dont you understand Hexbear is an evil cabal who organizes raiding certain posts. What? You cant see that anywhere on their instance? Huh… they must be hiding it… uh… somewhere.
We all live together in the posters’ gulag in Yakutsk where we are forced to post incessantly for the glory of the post-Soviet motherland.
We we see a bad post we all gather around the collective 2004 Gateway laptop and laugh at it.
We have a secret brigade thread in double-lemmy. Lemmy2.0
We’re not?!?
“Organize” is the problematic term here. We absoltuely are not that.
Whenever leftists post outside of their home instance it inevitably breaks down into a rehashed version of “This is America, why can’t you speak American?”
Why exactly? You have not given a reason. Vaguely gesturing at the thread full of people criticising the US is not a very good reason, unless you are an angry american nationalist.
Glad to see that your instance filter is working. Everyone should be free to curate the content they see.
For the benefit of others, checking your comment history, it is hilarious to me that you’ve never posted in your home instance even once and have the audacity to call us brigadiers.
lemm.ee user posts an article on lemmy.ml
random reactionary from a third instance: wtf how could hexbear do this
Look at all the users I blocked! LOOK HOW MUCH I DON’T CARE!!
Sorry, I’ll turn the mind control machine off now
It’s just like the good old days, where everything anyone didn’t like on Reddit was because they were being bridaged by the Hexbaerinos.
Won’t somebody think of the opium trade!
“I’m so proud of my echo chamber! Want to see pictures? No critical thinking can touch me! hahaha!”