davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to memes in This new baby gets ALL the attention!

• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes

davel , 5 months ago to memes in This new baby gets ALL the attention!

You’ve been flagged as a sock puppet account for this by a #BlueAnon conspiracy theorist.

Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in President Biden holds country supplying weapons responsible for casualties inflicted by those weapons

@Hyperreality expanded their comment after i posted my mine, making it seem as if I tacitly accept that framing, which I do not.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in President Biden holds country supplying weapons responsible for casualties inflicted by those weapons

As both pieces explain, it has its uses and its abuses.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in This new baby gets ALL the attention!

Oh my favorite: the political game of whether something is a dialect 🙄

Linguists generally take the position that Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian are partially mutually intelligible languages.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in Important distinction

Perhaps not a well-known term, which I believe originated at MetaFilter: faq.metafilter.com/…/threadshitting-and-threadsit…

davel , 5 months ago to memes in Important distinction

At 20 comments on this post, maybe that’s enough thread-sitting, @Haagel.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in This new baby gets ALL the attention!

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3b52695b-2cfe-4ddd-8291-be8bc87cd689.jpeg twitter.com/AmbassadeChine/…/1718984017570078814

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Korean President Yoon sits idly by as Japan tears down memorial to Korean forced laborers

Fascist Japan never really ended. If you look at who the US allowed into positions of power after Japan’s unconditional surrender, you’ll see it was largely the same government, but as a US client state.

davel , 5 months ago to asklemmy in Good recommendations for documentaries that can be watched on YouTube?

I usually refer Žižek appreciators to Gabriel Rockhill: Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Israeli Gov't Press Office Hosts Evangelical Leader Who Calls for Bombing Iran

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran has long been the desire of US foreign policy, ever since their puppet regime was overthrown.

davel , 5 months ago to linux in Purism (creator of FOSS friendly laptops and phones) offers buying shares of the company, reports revenue of 8M in 2022 and 5M in 2021

I remember when this bill was being worked through the system a decade ago, but I’m not sure how it turned out: Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

I worry that these new kinds of investments are novel ways to scam “non-accredited investors” (i.e. normal people who have to work for a living) of their money.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in Hey, maybe poor people don't deserve to starve?

brainworms

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in President Biden holds country supplying weapons responsible for casualties inflicted by those weapons

Citations Needed podcast: Whataboutism - The Media’s Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy

Since the beginning of what’s generally called ‘RussiaGate’ three years ago, pundits, media outlets, even comedians have all become insta-experts on supposed Russian propaganda techniques. The most cunning of these tricks, we are told, is that of “whataboutism” – a devious Soviet tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing out the accusers’ hypocrisy and inconsistencies. The tu quoque - or, “you, also” - fallacy, but with a unique Slavic flavor of nihilism, used by Trump and leftists alike in an effort to change the subject and focus on the faults of the United States rather than the crimes of Official State Enemies.

But what if “whataboutism” isn’t describing a propaganda technique, but in fact is one itself: a zombie phrase that’s seeped into everyday liberal discourse that – while perhaps useful in the abstract - has manifestly turned any appeal to moral consistency into a cunning Russian psyop. From its origins in the Cold War as a means of deflecting and apologizing for Jim Crow to its braindead contemporary usage as a way of not engaging any criticism of the United States as the supposed arbiter of human rights, the term “whataboutism” has become a term that - 100 percent of the time - is simply used to defend and legitimizing American empire’s moral narratives.

Ben Burgis @ Current Affairs: Is “Whataboutism” Always a Bad Thing?

Discussing the crimes of our own country as well as the crimes of others is not always an effort to downplay other countries’ crimes—it can be a test of whether we are serious about our principles.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart

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