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[+] [email protected] -39 points 3 months ago (7 children)

ERDOGAN BAD HURR DURR

Such a great comment section as always. Sometimes I genuinely feel (or rather hope) that most people commenting are 14 years old or younger, but I know they're probably not.

Not that anyone not hyper-propagandized needed to see the obvious reality of this "infamous" slap for themselves, but it says a lot that no one even bothered to look it up before circlejerking to this article which was written exactly for the great minds that would fall for it. I picked a BILD link for you because you share the same level of intelligence with their audience.

Is it impossible to disagree, oppose, hate, or even fight people, without falling for propaganda-produced stereotype-infused cartoonish characterizations relayed via such silly stories?

And the best part is the complete lack of self-awareness among those circlejerking themselves to these stories.

That Israel is anti-Erdogan now angel was quite the addition to the collective retardation though. lmao.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

There are better ways to inform people and correct the record if you think that this is propaganda than coming out the gate insulting everyone and being belligerent

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It was a gentle slap, but it was a slap. Most of us get through the day without slapping kids who we think are cheeky. Mr Erdogan clearly thinks he's way too important to keep his hands off other people's kids. He could have just told the kid what he was supposed to do, but he just lashed out. Guy needs to take his self importance down a peg or two. It was undignified and shows he doesn't have any self moderation. Surrounded by people who always say yes to him no matter what he says, I reckon. He loses respect if he can't deal with other people in a calm and sane manner. Which other world leaders slap children? None of them. This brings shame on Turkiye because their president can't moderate his behaviour. The little kid showed more emotional maturity and self control in public than Mr Erdogan.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Erdogan threatens Israel

Posts like this about Erdogan starts showing up

In fear of losing my Arab card, I don't want to defend him, but it is suspicious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

yes, I'm hasbara, you got me.

PS: but ok, I sourced this from an odd newspiece somewhere on worldnews on reddit, I can't prove you're wrong, but if he did it in the last few days, it is not just a media campaign, it coincided.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Posts like this showed up before too. He's an unlikable dictator. It just so happens that he recently threatened Israel, so you noticed this more.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The cookie selections and the general cookie rejection process of this site is ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's the first thing I was going to mention. I just closed the page without reading the article.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It does at least seem to follow the law, even if it does do the old "Toggle it all and go fuck yourself" button at the end.

The early ones had it all on by default. The Tumbler one was a sight to behold as you toggled off all their 1000 trusted data partners.

https://i.imgur.com/YCNvEMa.png

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Funny, the more I learn about right wing political strongmen and dictators the even less I like them, in fact, I strongly feel disliking.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They are the ultimate posers, every single one of them. They can't take the slightest appearance of criticism, even if it is coming from an old lady or a child but act #sobrave and #galaxybrain because they think that ignoring rules that make our society function makes them all powerful.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It has much to do with deep rooted family culture and sexism, the man is stronk, the man do stuff, the man pays, the man hits. Other men look at political stronk man and say, There, look, a Stronk man!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yea, it's Pleasantville all over again. I just thought we were over that, but ultraneoliberals have a way of fucking over people and making them lash out in predictable ways that sometimes they try to harness to impose their agenda. Then we fix it e.g. New Deal, WW2, EU...then we forget why we had those protections...liberalize everything again...and back to strongmen at the gates to save us from ourselves by enslaving us. It's like every hundred years we need a mass human sacrifice to appease the gods of chaos and relearn how to keep societies balanced.

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Here is a picture of Erdogan falling off a horse and then getting kicked in the dick by said horse.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

I like that horse

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's safe to assume his nuts got so damaged he needed a ballectomy -- Erdogan has not had balls for over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are rumours that Hitler had just one ball and did everything he did just to compensate. If that's true, what can we expect from Erdogan now?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

haha, "and he was never the same again..."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Actually if something like that did permanent physical damage, to someone already in that mindset, that could have serious psychological consequences. When was this, has he behaved notably worse since?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

after a little googling, I found the video on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/6gadar/turkish_president_erdogan_falling_off_a_horse/

It was posted 7 years ago and by then it was said that it was 10 years old, so 17 years ago...that would place this ball-busting incident in 2007, he only became presidont in 2014...idk...maybe it's his origin story (become president to censor the whole internet to hide his 3rd degree ball-trouncing event), like Trump's correspondents' dinner or Orban's being mocked by Juncker or putin's whole life since 1989.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

He was prime minister from 2003 to 2014 before initiating a constitutional referendum, creating a presidential system for him in 2014. Ball slapping happened 4 years into his prime minister government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

At the very least if there was physical trauma, the mental trauma from it going untreated could definitely lead to trying to compensate for how he feels about it by "trying to be more manly" to prove it didn't affect him...

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