squirrel
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
formerly /u/squirrelrampage on Reddit
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As other people have already mentioned: No, you are not paranoid. The pattern that you recognise is fake outrage or ragebait.
If you have some time to spare and are curiously about how the right-wing outrage machine works, I can highly recommend the video essay “Stellar Blade: The Fake Outrage” by Shaun. His videos can be a little dry, but he goes to great lengths to pick apart a single example (the video game Stellar Blade) and how the right-wing first embraced the game (in the name of their fight against “wokeism, DEI,…”), only to then do a full about-face when the game did not turn out exactly as they had envisioned (and claim that the game was full of “wokeism, DEI,…”).
It’s a long video, but it does a very good job to expose the mix of unsubstantiated claims, copy-pasted accusations and ultimately fake outrage that underlies right-wing behavior these days.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 2 weeks ago:
I am not a liberal, so I can totally be outraged about what the article is describing and point out the Guardian’s contribution to that particular problem.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 2 weeks ago:
Here is some news coverage of what’s going on in the Guardian. Mind, some of the articles are a little older, but the overall situation hasn’t improved. The only thing that has changed is the normalization of the transphobic content the Guardian has put out over the years.
The articles below contain links to various Guardian articles
- Hundreds Of Staff At The Guardian Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its “Transphobic Content”, March 20
- Protesters demand the Guardian ‘stop platforming transphobia’ outside newspaper’s HQ, October 21
- Trans Journalists Pull Out of Guardian Newspaper’s Pride Coverage, June 22
- Columnist James Wong leaves The Observer and claims ‘institutionalised transphobia’, February 23
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 2 weeks ago:
And let’s not forget that the Guardian has had no qualms to participate in transphobic witchhunting for years by now. No matter what hand-wringing they now do, they share a part of the responsibility for it coming this far and probably won’t stop pushing transphobia either…
- Comment on Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young. 2 weeks ago:
I can’t take articles such as this one seriously if they don’t mention right-wing terrorists recruiting through the same channels and means. That has been a known problem for more than a decade.
Treating online radicalisation solely as a problem of people with a migrant/non-European/Muslim/… background is very telling and borders on lying by omission.
- Comment on Skill issue 4 weeks ago:
Obligatory footnote: EvoPsych is mostly bunk, deeply intertwined with eugenics and riddled with homophobia, sexism and rape apologia.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 5 weeks ago:
The stock went down when Tesla’s sales numbers for the first quarter of 2025 got out and showed a decrease of sold vehicles, on top of Musk’s shenanigans and the protests at Tesla showrooms. Now these events have been “priced in” and the stock operates on vague estimates and wishful thinking again until the next slew of substantial bad news hits, at the latest when the next quarterly numbers are due.
- Comment on Tech Workers Coalition 101: come on board 2 months ago:
The links to the registration do not work for me.
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 2 months ago:
It’s a very strange coincidence that these are the subreddits that are suddenly experiencing a “bug”.