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Libbo 1biden-alert :

I feel like this sort of post is more likely from Russian bots than actual humans..

Like it's basically dehumanizing Americans that are showing some actual empathy.

canadian kkkanada : lmao its absolutely not, its telling you to call your fucking senators and congresspeople before he fucking cancels elections

I can assure you were are doing so in record numbers.

Only 1 in 5 Americans voted for him. I've seen estimates of over 10,000 protests in the past year.

This reply really proves my post. Expressing empathy ≠ doing nothing. The people upset about it here are quite often doing a lot more than posting online.

Libbo 2 jokermala

Oh well thanks, I will go change things now that you mention it. What a helpful suggestion we'd not yet thought of.

Libbo 3 obama-prism

“focus on actually changing something while you still can”

My Swedish homie there have been protests on basically every weekend since Donald Trump took office. The state of Minnesota has been protesting daily for the past 2 weeks.

Things change w/ elections, which is in Nov.

bro, just give me 11 months

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[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 82 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Liberals when carrying out a collective punishment, through sanctions and bombings, against the defenseless population while demanding they take action against "their dictatorship".

"They need to stand up against the regime." nl-smug

Liberals, with easy access to guns and ammunition, when they're asked to take responsibility for their self-proclaimed "democracy":

wojak-nooo "Shut up bot!!! We just need to vote!! I didn't vote for this!"

[–] EchoVerse@hexbear.net 56 points 4 days ago

This is so on point. They expect people in already difficult conditions to "stand up against the regime" but then fail to stand up against theirs without any sort of introspection.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago

how about they stop causing all of these "regimes" in the first place.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 71 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I feel like this sort of post is more likely from Russian bots than actual humans..
Like it's basically dehumanizing Americans that are showing some actual empathy.

The complete lack of self-awareness always leaves me speechless. Like what do you say to this? "How dare you dehumanize me (they didn't), it's probably because you aren't human yourself!!"

shoulder-grab {speech-rubi-l-1speech-rubi-l-3| ​ ​ ​ ​ can you really not see it? ​ }

[–] yunqihao@hexbear.net 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

90% of liberals quit dehumanising races

Already wrong lmao, drop a 0 and it's still wrong

[–] yunqihao@hexbear.net 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think the joke is that on a subconscious level this is the liberal pov that they cant stop dehumanizing races because what if they're right this time. Like the picture of the guy mining and he turns back just before he hits diamonds.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ah, yeah I get it. "This time I know for sure that I'm right" line of thinking

"90% of gamblers quit before they hit it big" but for liberalism

[–] yunqihao@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

Yeah exactly

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 57 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Hey please stop coming into our subreddit begging for forgiveness. It's tiring and honestly it's hard to forgive someone for an ongoing thing. If you want to feel better about yourself, try doing something about it instead of just offloading your guilt on the victims of your regime. I know that might sound kind of mean, but honestly think about how you feel about Russia. You'd probably get annoyed if your subreddit was spammed by sorry russians apologising for an ongoing war, especially if it seemed like they're not doing anything."

wojak-nooo I AM NOT RUSSIAN! I said I was sorry, what more do you want? You're the russian actually

Edit: all the Americans getting angry over that post really highlights the whole "half of America can't read" thing

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When I was a teenager I had to learn and deal with the fact that I grew up in an oppressive system and that as long as I wasn’t actively unlearning propaganda and resisting the oppressive factors I was contributing to it. It was a very painful realisation and I needed some time to learn how to deal with this reality. A lot of white liberals have not had this realisation and are very hostile to the idea that they might be associated to bad things.

I think it has to do with the fact that white people in the imperial core grow up with a superiority complex, because they learn that they live in this nearly perfect system that was built by their ancestors (white people) in which everyone has a say and everyone is constantly working to fix issues that come to light. People from an ethnic minority learn from a young age that the system is rotten and don’t have this rigid self righteous worldview. I have no idea how to break this apart for people.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Kinda blows my mind that liberals are simply lacking in guilt. Either they shy away from the overwhelming evidence of the brutality of the empire they support, or they simply ignore it.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago

Idk about you but I was heavily indoctrinated by the idea that everything bad that my country did was either in the past or a mistake due to wrong assumptions or bad leadership. This whole system of imperialism is completely invisible to most people in the imperial core. Obviously a lot of people stay wilfully ignorant, but the propaganda and indoctrination make it very easy to do that. There is a liberal explanation for everything if you just refuse to look at the larger picture.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

I think many of them actually bear quite a lot of guilt and that's why they get so uncomfortable when you bring up the bad shit America does.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Things change w/ elections, which is in Nov.

Just 10 months until Trump is voted out of office! so-true

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 53 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

the same thing applies to the US too, except you had the power to choose your president

American bourgeois elections are valid, but Russia's bourgeois elections are invalid because the news told me it's a bad country.

The fact that Russia's president has double the approval rating of America's proves, paradoxically, that they're less democratic.

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[–] Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trying to explain to my fellow Americans why we put sanctions on other countries makes perfect sense until I say, "and that's why other countries may have to put sanctions on us."

They follow the pieces like, "How is that not collective punishment?!" and "they should only put the sanctions on red states" (they kind of already tried that, and capitalism routed around it).

What Donald Trump has convinced the world to do is even worse than sanctions, He's convinced them to look at a future without reliance upon the United States.

Americans don't seem to understand who actually pays for all of our shit. Through the petro dollar we were able to hide the damage as we inflated the currency. We kept inflating it just to keep showering money on rich people. That gravy train has ended but we are still showering money on rich people.

The government doesn't even have to print money to cause hyperinflation. The world just has to stop using our money to do stuff and we fold like soggy cardboard.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Trying to explain to my fellow Americans why we put sanctions on other countries

Because they won't let you exploit them freely and hand over all their natural resources and labor for less than they're worth? Often just because they want to make political decisions slightly different from those the American bourgeois want them to make? American sanctions have very different motivations vs. hypothetical sanctions against America IMO.

They follow the pieces like, "How is that not collective punishment?!"

The irony of Americans saying this given what their sanctions do to others around the world is pretty incredible.

Sanctions are used to bully that's true. The only people really victimized are the common people in a country as the leadership doesn't face any amount of want or change in lifestyle.

But the narrative, the excuse that is sold to people who believe themselves to live in "free" and "democratic" countries is that sanctions are used to force the citizens to put pressure on their government. It is a flawed idea and really just translates to "we will punish their peasants because their nobles don't pay patronage".

I'm not saying this is good, correct, righteous or effective, but I am saying it is how this is done. Americans fundamentally do no think the same rules apply to them as does the rest of the world and have smugly defended the kinds of trade sanctions that lead directly to mass starvations in other countries.

Americans are also generally deaf to the privation that persists all over our own nation and generally rationalize starving children whether here or abroad to a lack of motivation to simply walk down the street to the grocery store and buy food with plentiful money that you get from working every job.

I am not confident that enough Americans will blame Republicans and Trump for the economic collapse and Even less confident that they will remember that all the way through to November. November might not even get here and Americans will probably have excuses lined up for that too. I don't think you can reach these people, I think we're all in for a really bad time.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well this is a first; I wonder why these people never apologized to anyone else we invaded.

[–] BabyTurtles@hexbear.net 38 points 4 days ago

I assume it's because the USian brain associates Greenland with white vikings and doesn't realize they're mostly indigenous Inuit people.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 54 points 4 days ago

Lmao those libs think those are somehow useful comments. "We've been protesting since 2016 and have nothing to show for it! Obviously you're a Russian bot!"

They say that like there aren't a bunch of Russians in prison for actually opposing Putin. Gary Kasparov, turbo lib that he is, did a few months for protesting Putin getting reelected.

[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 4 days ago

two seconds later: "slava ukrani, west taiwan, israel has a right to defend itself"

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

exactly one American resisted Trump and he fucking missed negative

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
  1. we're all in this boat together. It's not like Europe is not a group of colonizers and the industry leaders don't know each other on a first name basis

  2. the shit that they did to Bernie Sanders is astounding. The US election is a build-a-burger contest held by McDonald's. "Bag of lettuce" isn't going to win even if it has the most votes. You vote a lib in and the result of the Greenland incident is a two state solution. It's designed to ratchet. The Dems are designed to be so unappealing that a Republican gets through and their purpose to to be a backstop from the transgressions. China's not the only one with 5 year plans.

  3. Everyone knows how to talk shit until boots are on the ground looking at you. You'd shut the fuck up if the tables were turned; you're no black panther.

[–] ReallyCoolDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To buy a gun i need to speak with the mafia. You can buy a gun at walmart. All these socials, and 0 political organisation.

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[–] Sam@hexbear.net 41 points 4 days ago
[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 38 points 4 days ago

CALL YOUR REPPPPPS

CALL YOUR REPPPPPPPPS

CALL YOUR REPPPPPPPPPSSS

I scream, as I listen to the answering machine

[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is word-for-word what I have heard liberals say about anti-war Russians.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Even if we take at face value the idea that the situations are equivalent (they aren't), anti-war Russians face more consequences than anti-war Yankees do. The primary purpose of Yankee liberals showing up to the subreddit of a European colony and repeatedly apologizing that their government is threatening to colonize it twice over is definitely to make themselves feel better and not to actually help the people being colonized.

On the other hand, it's really funny that the reddit moderator posting this is Swedish.

[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I will say the Americans here are pathetic, but by treating the American capitalist and proletarian classes as a single "American class," the OP is turning an issue of capital into one of the nation. They are giving us all an excellent example of false consciousness and how that undermines proletarian internationalism.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I generally agree, I just don't think the situation is identical to Russia/Ukraine. As I said, OOP is a Swedish lib so I don't trust the motivations behind the post.

However, the sentiment would be understandable and not incorrect from a Greenlander. I very much doubt the American proletariat would actually do anything at all to oppose this unless they thought it would personally harm them.

[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The American proletariat in all likelihood will not do shit, but that does not mean you can replace the Marxist theory of class struggle with natlibpessimism just because the international working class is at a historical low point .

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[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Expressing empathy ≠ doing nothing.

Why we are where we are and are all fucked

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[–] ReallyCoolDude@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Everything that critics Americans nowaday is a Russian bot, it seems. You guys should stop thinking you are the good guys, start accepting the world sees you as the bad guys. Exactly as not all Russian are bad guys, I dont think all north Americans are. But exactly as Russians,you are responsible. In fact, you guys have historically caused more harm to the world than Russians. We see you as you are: profit drunk cowboys coming from a third world country with an impressive military budget. If a policeman would deport a 5 years old to a concentration camp, in Europe would start a Civil War. So yes, you are guilty also for what you created at home. Inaction is a sin, when you have the constitutional right to bear arms to defend from authoritarians governments. Amd please, marching means really nothing when they shoot.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 days ago (4 children)
[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I try so hard to stay away from posts like this, because lib bullshit is poison. That being said...

Even if none of the Greenland shit ever happened, Trump never so much as uttered the word, the takeaway of this post is still true. It was true under Biden, Obama, Bush and every administration that perpetuated Amerikkkan imperialism - it just typically happened to countries the average lib doesn't even think about, let alone have empathy for. They get so uncomfortable when confronted by their privilege in the world. "Where's your nuance?!" they say, but where's their nuance required to read the room and let people vent without harassment in their own country's subreddit lol. "We really don't want to invade Greenland" they say, as they flood into r/Greenland and immediately set the terms and conditions for how you're allowed to talk about Amerikkkans.

Since this one hit close to home:

I’m trans I barely get treated like a person and have my options severely limited. Don’t give me that shit about how every American is responsible when we tried to tell people and got ridiculed and called slurs for it and got [SA] threats. Kiss my ass.

Oh shut up. In the same way that people on here aren't going to storm the trans mega and tell me "there are good cis people, actually" you need to think past your own problems and let people express themselves. How is every lib's ego so fragile that even the slightest acknowledgement of anyone else's problems over theirs invokes the most self righteous tantrum?

Another trans person brought up this is "victim blaming" LMAO, yeah okay Amerikkkans truly are the victims that should be the first thought on everyone's minds here.

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[–] yunqihao@hexbear.net 36 points 4 days ago

But i voted blue

Every day I am more and more sure that the greatest enemy of the global south is the white working class labor aristocracy.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

So much main character energy in this thread, and not one mention of the collective punishment of sanctions that the US has been putting on nations, both Democrats and Republicans, for decades.

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[–] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

The american people yearn for freedom

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

they have no idea how things actually happen. not one liberal questions what "[parade]s on basically every weekend" has done to stop anything. they never wonder what makes these changes actually happen, they just know that martin luther king walked around a sidewalk for a long time and then racism disappeared. they should just stay at home and pray. at least then someone would be able to articulate the mechanism by which they expect actual change to be accomplished.

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