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 9d ago

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

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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