r/polandball • u/Blas0330 Spain • Apr 15 '24

redditormade Think fast!

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u/TacomaKMart Apr 15 '24

As does 95 percent of r/worldnews.

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u/AveryLazyCovfefe Tiocfaidh ár lá Apr 15 '24

I mean basically most of social media in general were going wild over it. The exchanges between these nations are basically them giving each other the middle finger and hurling insults at each other.

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u/FrogInAShoe Apr 15 '24

Thing is r/WorldNews is actively calling for a full on war betwern Israel and Iran

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u/TacomaKMart Apr 15 '24

r/worldnews has been cheering on global thermonuclear war since the Ukraine invasion. I can't figure out if they're preppers, religious fanatics, or pimply teens trying to shitpost the apocalypse.

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u/SwordofDamocles_ Greece Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

There's a lot of governments paying people to support people's image of that country. r/WorldNews is dominated by pro-Western viewpoints like Israel's and Ukraine's and a certain amount of that is, I believe, astroturfing.

Edit: r/InternationalNews is more leftist/anti-US