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Seriously what the fuck is this? Googling this specifically because someone in my fam shared a boycott list including Shein and Temu and I thought hang on, what are they doing to fund the genocide in Israel, and saw that it was a boycott for the very real Uyghur genocide

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago

good-lord a lot of results!

About 45,700 results.

good-lord May I see them?

No.

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I was actually going to post a more vague version of this.

Every time I find myself in an argument online, I straight up can't find the information that existed at the time. Things I've seen. From sources I was familiar with.

I really don't know how to circumvent this problem. Even if I VPNed into a good source, I couldn't copy/paste it for a lib because the link won't work for them and they will expert-shapiro

I'm surprised articles about the pied piper strategy still exist.

[–] BigHaas@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yandex.com is the Russian Google and it will very happily give anti American articles

https://yandex.com/search/touch/?text=uyghur+genocide+cia

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Nice. Although my arguing with libs days are over. Unless they wander in here

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised articles about the pied piper strategy still exist.

Just learned about this for the first time, crazy

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Yup. Hillary elevated trump and he beat her. People who donate to democrats can and will have their money funnelled into crazy right wing campaigns.

Then they have the nerve to turn around and complain when the (R)'s do it.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you know when you saw it, you can try filtering by the date range, if it shows up. That's what I do when I need to prove that the CDC and CNN created virtually every anti-mask conspiracy talking point in early 2020.

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do libs just say "that's old shit"?

Never in the 50 year history of the internet has anyone ever been presented with evidence and changed their mind.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

No, they usually say that the recommendations changed because of new evidence. What evidence existed at the time that wearing a mask could increase your chances of catching a respiratory illness (as was claimed by the CDC), they never say. The more self-aware ones will acknowledge that they lied, but will still defend it on the basis of, "They were trying to preserve masks for healthcare workers" which is partially true, but anyone who thinks that's a valid reason for betraying public trust should get the wall. Even when they see that they were lied to and that it caused countless deaths, they still make excuses for the people they perceive to be on their "team" and try to shift the blame entirely onto the other side. "At least the CDC didn't tell people to drink bleach, like Trump did!" They simply apply the same mental framework they use when confronted with the Iraq war or the genocide of Palestinians or mass incarceration or mass surveillance or any number of other things. There are literally no limits to lesser evilist brainworms, and no matter how well you cite your claims, they'll look at you like a conspiracy theorist for bringing it up instead of letting them memory-hole it. Libs want crimes like that to be buried and forgotten and mentioning the truth is uncivil, even if they know the truth, they want to pretend it didn't happen. If they were honest, they'd prefer it if you were an anti-mask chud because that just reaffirms their worldview and allows them to pretend that they uphold scientific values.

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

We're never going to win unless these people personally suffer enough under capitalism. And as we have seen for the last 30 years, all it takes is nice words, The Masked Singer being on air, and junk food to keep people "happy".

I wish I could move to another solar system

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

There are literally no limits to lesser evilist brainworms

I've come to the conclusion that liberals are orders of magnitude more guilty than "tankies" at doing whataboutism but they don't call it that when they do it and literally nobody calls them out on it, including tankies. "lesser of two evils" is no different than whataboutism, except usually on much flimsier empirical grounds than when communists do it.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely, they won't allow any criticism of the democrats without shifting the conversation to Trump. Ofc there are times when bringing up another topic for context is relevant to the conversation, and times where it's not, which is why shouting "Whataboutism!" at everything is dumb and just an attempt to exert control over what topics are allowed to be discussed.

If the question you're trying to answer is, "Should I vote for Biden or for Trump?" then bringing up Trump's shit in response to criticism of Biden is fair. The problem is that liberals are incapable of having a political conversation that doesn't center that question, to the exclusion of all other options and all facts and analysis that aren't relevant to that question. The fact that the CDC betrayed public trust and caused countless preventable deaths doesn't fit neatly into that question, so that fact is not to be brought up in conversation, and if it is, then it must be because the person bringing it up is trying to make an argument for voting for Trump, because that is the limit to liberals' perception of reality.

[–] WHATABOUTISM_DETECTOR@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

soypoint-1 whataboutism soypoint-2

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I don't know if it's AI or just general enshitification, but I used to be able to find what I was looking for pretty quickly on the Goog until relatively recently. Now it seems like I have to fight it to get what I want.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was searching for information about a shooting in my city. Literally no results besides irrelevant news of other shootings. I had to switch to fuckin bing to get a basic article to show up

It seems that if the keywords are a combination of anything remotely involving illegal activities or notorious criminals and their activities, Google will block it.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

The idea of disappearing information is a significant part of the plot of Sacred and Terrible Air

[–] goog@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

https://docs.searxng.org/

You are safe now my sweet child

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised even this site is mentioned on Google since it used to not be.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the old site was just fucky with the javascript or something like that

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google used to block the wsws and a bunch of radlib blogs, so I have floor low expectations on what they do and don't block.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah it's not that they wouldn't, I think we're just not big enough for them to notice and take action. The only thing they hate more than socialism is paying a human employee to do a task.

My memory is very fuzzy around it now, but I was checking into this issue prior to the lemmy re-merge. There was something we were doing that was either blocking Googlebot or not letting Googlebot access the javascript required to properly render pages or something. I check into that kind of thing a lot for my job

[–] charlie@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

I’ve been using Kagi for a while now with no complaints. For my uses, I haven’t had to use anything else for maybe a year now. I wish they had a free option, but if you can afford it I would recommend at least trying them.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Click Search Tools > All results and change it to verbatim.