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Damn they really made Biden good
Shia Trump vs Sunni Obama
who would win?
Ibadi JEB sweeps.
This is extra funny because he and his mother look identical. Funny how that works out, anyway.
only i can bring forth the twelfth imam. you'll see muhammad al-mahdi so much you'll be saying "please mr president we're tired of the twelfth imam, make him leave!". kamala can't bring about his arrival she's too weak. she can't do it. but i can. she doesn't even observe salah five times a day, can you believe it? Not me though, i pray towards mecca six times a day.
the trump team should hire us, we can already post better versions of him than he can
I would hate to think that this group is as gullible and easily fooled as Trump's cult followers are.
Why can't liberals detect jokes
Federating was a mistake
Because they were told that everything on the internet is Russian troll farms. Kinda of ironic actually...
Being purposefully obtuse allows them to bask in their smug sense of superiority
Wait... this is fake?????
This guy is gonna go back to his instance and talk about how tankies at hexbear support "Islamist Trump"
We’ve been had, we have no choice other than abandoning communism 
lol
lmao
THIS IS 100% REAL!! RED PATRIOTS ARE IN CHARGE, TRUST THE PLAN!!
It’s a shitpost lol
Obama was born watching Magnum P.I.
Biden was born at the Dunder Mifflin paper factory.
Trump was born in Waziristan.
These are facts.
Check Wikipedia if you don’t believe me.
wdym? it's pretty believable. just look at the red underlines and the side-by-side photos! the resemblance is uncanny
the post is a shitpost making fun.
this essay makes some strong points about why people endorse absurd lies, and it isn't primarily because they're gullible
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. As for those anti-imperialists who don’t participate in this festival of xenophobia — and here I include myself — we have our own elitist consolation: we accept the tragedy of masses of gullible sheeple falling for cunning propaganda because having overcome it flatters our own intelligence. The more we condemn society’s stupidity, the smarter we feel in comparison.
But am I not just worsening the problem, aggravating our hopelessness, by criticizing the critics in a way that suggests that no one escapes ideological self-flattery? I don’t think so. Paradoxically, it brings us all back to a more even and possibility-rich playing field.
The prevailing populist narrative grants the People (of the West) moral innocence by attributing to them utter stupidity and naivety; I invert the equation and demand a Marxist narrative instead: Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they benefit as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their military and their propaganda — organs of coercion and consent. [6] We’re not as stupid as we’re made out to be. This means that we can be reasoned with, that there is a way out.
This is interesting but to make sure I'm understanding it correctly, does the last paragraph posit that the people that are representative of the shitpost cliches actually understand and are complicit in the "wink-wink" nature of the lies being passed off as legitimate information because they understand that they benefit from the goal achieved?
Like, this guy is aware of the completely baseless and disingenuous nature of their fearless god/leader and is just putting on a show?
😔
If I could I would post the picture of Trump selling ice cream in Pakistan