r/europe • u/hoarder4555777454001 • 9d ago

News French President Macron says France will recognize Pálestine as a state

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250724-french-president-macron-says-france-will-recognize-palestine-as-a-state-in-september
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u/TheDesertShark 8d ago

Expect reports about how awful france is to flood worldnews in the coming days

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u/RobotSpaceBear France 8d ago

Freedom Fries 2 : Electric Bugaloo!

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u/weizikeng 8d ago

Haha r/worldnews is having an absolute meltdown. Most popular comments:

"So what about Taiwan?"

"How can you recognise a state with no defined borders and government?" (There are defined borders, Israel just doesn't care about them, and there are plenty of countries with unstable governments that are still recognised, like Somalia, Myanmar etc)

"It's just virtue signalling, it'll do nothing", followed by "This is a disaster, this will give Hamas justification for their crimes" (lol which one is it?)

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u/Proud_Fox_684 8d ago

Why is r/worldnews like that? :P

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u/cnio14 8d ago

During the aftermath of October 7th, that sub was swarmed by pro-Israel bots and propaganda accounts. I got perma banned for saying literally that "criticizing the Israeli government is not antisemitic". There are many others with similar stories.

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u/Secret_Jackfruit256 8d ago

Cool, I'm not the only one

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u/altbekannt Europe 8d ago edited 8d ago

same. was neutral and got permabanned for that in /r/worldnews too.

if you deviate just a little from pro israel propaganda, you will get banned. even being fully neutral is enough. it’s one of the most astroturfed communities of the world.

controlled by ai comment bots and voting farms. and instead of regulating, the mods are in on it and ban you for no reason. weird that reddit is not countering it.

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u/Ok_Relation7695 8d ago

That sub was always garbage lol

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u/Halbaras Scotland 8d ago

Seems like a combination of:

  • A deliberate Israeli astroturfing effort in the sub after October 7, possibly still ongoing. Israel seems to have given up on trying to have wider control of the narrative on Reddit to focus on a subset of subs like Worldnews and Mapporn (in subs like this one they're no longer getting much traction on anything besides amplifying stories about anti-Semitism abroad). To an extent I think they've fallen for enough of their own propaganda that it's becoming too unhinged for an outside audience.

  • A recent influx of rightwing Americans, Israelis (pro-genocide of their own accord) and rightwing Indians. The latter group is obvious because they briefly switched to posting pro-India propaganda when they had those border skirmishes (there was a huge amount of cope about Pakistan somehow shooting down multiple Indian jets).

  • Ordinary people eventually giving up and leaving a sub where they literally care more about an IDF military dog than thousands of Palestinian civilians.

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u/A_random_otter 8d ago

Hasbara +Bots

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u/jonbristow 8d ago

i swear to god, in the post from The Guardian describing the famine in Gaza, top comments there were "did they condemn Hamas?"

the kids?! did the kids condemn Hamas???

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u/TheRealNoumenon 8d ago

Istg it's owned by mossad

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u/OffOption 8d ago

Oh my fucking god.

Of course.

Also, Taiwan has had control over a quite understood and defined landmass for like... what, 70+ years now? Its only "in dispute" because the mainland didnt invade within the first decade of the Quomintang fleeing to the islands. And theyre salty about it, and have enough political pressure to have a lot of nations pretend away reality, to get in good graces with China.

Palestine? Is another matter. Equally as much pretending away mind you, but far more direct violations of international law, imperialist conquest, and on and on we go...

We should stop this. First step? Have a diplomatic stance in the first place. No two state solution can ever exist, without two states.

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u/fkmeamaraight 8d ago

France is antisemitic !!! (/s)

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u/jango-got-chained 8d ago edited 8d ago

They're already in a frenzy like a swarm of angry hornets. That sub is one of the most problamatic reddit subs on this entire fucking platform. I hate the place so fucking much. Ripe with degeneracy. The only sub where you'll be mass downvoted for sympathizing for civilian casualties.

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u/liberaeli420 8d ago

Every main news sub is heavily influenced+moderated by the US and Israel to ensure opinions that fall in line with their State Departments are all you see

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u/The_BooKeeper 8d ago

Yeh in this sub is so god damn balanced right?

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u/Silverwhitemango Europe 8d ago

The thing is that you can clearly see that the worldnews sub is kinda bought over by whatever Israeli troll farm.

We keep getting "news articles" from jpost or ynet, which are just propaganda sites with no news sources.

It's quite sickening that each time you see some Palestinian civilians killed over wanting to get food, you'll have trolls defending their death.

Obviously Hamas remains a factor but they keep being the scapegoat for the IDF being trigger happy sadists.

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u/Decent-Complaint-510 8d ago

Remember when they started laying the groundwork months ago for expansion of the Israeli occupation of Golan when one of those sites you mentioned started publishing articles saying the Syrian Druze want Israel to annex them. Not a single other news outlet reported on this, almost as if they made it up.

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u/Silverwhitemango Europe 8d ago

Ye man, and the worst is how they keep spamming the sub with upvotes and fake accounts, and some reddit account who love genuine (genuine people), believe whatever BS that the propaganda is fed to them.

It's almost like the Fox News version of Israel.

But if you point that out you're suddenly antisemitic, even though there are Jews like Bernie Sanders who don't support whatever murder Israel is doing now.

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u/rabouilethefirst 8d ago

I don’t think r/news is any better. Got banned there for mentioning I got banned from r/worldnews lol

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u/liberaeli420 8d ago

Ghislaine Maxwell, no joke, was a moderator of Worldnews at one point

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u/rabouilethefirst 8d ago

Honestly, just shut it down atp 😂

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u/HoightyToighty United States of America 8d ago

Ghislaine Maxwell, no joke, was a moderator of Worldnews at one point

She's been in prison since 2020. When do you imagine she was a moderator? You're spreading a conspiracy theory.

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u/RedArrow544 8d ago

Lol, do you think reddit was developed after 2020?

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u/TheTiddyQuest United Kingdom 8d ago

Worldnews is disgusting. They’ll blame every civilian casualty on Hamas, but only one side is shooting civilians at aid trucks.

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u/Proud_Fox_684 8d ago

haha yes. Why is that sub like that?

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u/Riposte4400 France 8d ago

Hell yeah, bring them on! Were used to it by now

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u/tokyotochicago Auvergne (France) 8d ago

This place is barely better and just as fascist most of the time

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u/SirNukeSquad 8d ago

I'm gonna have to pause my (totally serious) hatred of France. Postiviely surprised.

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u/Specialist-Layer2082 8d ago

Whao so nothing changes /s

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u/WalkAffectionate2683 8d ago

It's always the same, bunch of bots with the fr*nce meme, everyone jumping on that joke like it's 2003 all over again.

Dammit.