• sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
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    1 year ago

    Not that I in any way support Israel’s campaign of violence, but I’m not sure these kinds of headlines and questionable news sources are doing anyone any favours. For those of us who already oppose the Israeli campaign, there’s nothing new here. For those who do, these kinds of sensationalist posts just push them farther back into their views. The best case scenario is to open peoples’ eyes to the harm Israel is doing and convince them to change their opinion, and I feel a neutral and objective tone on the trail of destruction they’re doing speaks for itself.

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      1 year ago

      Damn that’s crazy, I don’t remember asking you though. Why would I want the opinion of some pearl clutching, civility policing, tutting, preening, self-obsessed little liberal who thinks every post is for him? Why would I want the opinion of someone so cowardly they can’t call terrorism what it is? Why would you admit that?

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      1 year ago

      If you want the posts to fit an editorial framework you agree with, I would be more than happy to direct you to an RSS feed application so that you can subscribe to what you like without being burdened with my posts. Just let me know what your platform is. I know Reddit has severely damaged your mind and I’m glad to help.

      You did know you can go find the news yourself instead of critiquing other people’s posting like a Piss Sommelier?

        • Southern Boy@lemmy.mlOP
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          You have nothing of value to contribute to the discussion other than saying “gee I wish that I was still on Reddit where I wouldn’t see Iranian or Russian news”. Even by the rules of “Reddit style” imageboards like this you should be ashamed of begging me to pretend I’m on reddit.

          Guess what buddy I already knew you would grumble seeing my posts and I don’t care what you think because there are millions of utterly worthless replacements for you.

          You are on a link aggregator website begging for more of the same Associated Press/AFP news sources, opeds from Zionist newspapers like The Atlantic and The New York Times. Even on its face, you’re a very bland and uninteresting person with no thoughts which aren’t interchangeable with every other mopey tech worker on reddit. But demanding more government censored sources on a free platform is downright insidious and you should be ashamed of yourself.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve got the impression that you have at some point decided to use a bit of your energy every day to make lemmy a worse place. Maybe this is even your outlook towards the world in general, I have no way to know. I just want to let you know that you are succeeding. :)

        • Southern Boy@lemmy.mlOP
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          How butthurt are you over seeing news posts you dislike? You people are seriously pathetic.

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            1 year ago

            Oh, sorry, I think we have a misunderstanding. Your news post is fine. It is the way you interact with others that made me just a bit sad.

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              1 year ago

              Keep your concern trolling about Reddiquette to yourself or risk wasting more of our precious time on this earth.

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        1 year ago

        Wow. You’ll totally win hearts and minds talking like that.

        Southern Boy. Hmm. Where in the South?

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          1 year ago

          Using “hearts and minds” here is just too good. You do realize my OP post demonstrates the actual hearts and minds strategy of the US military? Terrorism combined with corrupt anthropology. Look up what happened to the “Human Terrain Project” researchers - I hope it happens to you!

          Redditors just pathologically spout idioms even when it just deepens their appearance of idiocy.

          I’m not here to cater to your editorial tastes or tut tut about online etiquette. You’re wasting your time just like you always do online.

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          Oh no, let me understand the perspective of people bombing civilians to cause them to lose faith in the local militia group for the sake of colonization and conquest. I’m sure they have a good reason.

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              And the Nazis had a point or two as well didn’t they? Let’s break down the pros and cons of genocide, let’s not be so hasty to judge.

              Unlike you, I don’t need to wait for historians to reach a consensus on the evils of my time.

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                  Pretty normal to call a state that commits genocide a Nazi state as that’s the thing the Nazis did. That and the race mixing laws. Don’t forget it’s illegal to race mix in Israel. Ethno state, famously also a Nazi thing. This isn’t hyperbole, it’s a pretty direct comparison.

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          While a funny quip, states are capable of terrorism. See Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Dresden, the blitz. Ya know I was hoping I would off the top of my head remember more than just WW2 examples, but here we are. I mean, besides Israel at the moment but that’s the topic so doesn’t really fit to the list.

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      1 year ago

      Hey, just as a heads up we discourage the posting of " media bias checkers" here because it is intellectually sloppy to outsource whether you should trust a source to some guy who has their own bias.

      Please reply acknowledging you understand this within 48 hours.

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          1 year ago

          I guess I see it like this: if I think something is inaccurate should I debunk it or should I post “this random right winger online says it isn’t credible” (and MBFC is a right winger, but not a fascist)

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      1 year ago

      Gee, I wonder why the hobby of a conservative Zionist masquerading as a fact and bias checker would be opposed to a source from Iran… 🙄

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          MBFC presents itself as “fact check” but it is really just subjective determinations slotted into an inappropriate analysis as judged by a political illiterate. The overall curve of “centrist” sources being high on facts simply reveals their own bias, where they fail to recognize the non-factual components of those sources, the train of think tanks, and whether topics are covered at all, or in certain contexts.

          Ironically, the only time I ever see anyone trying to unironically make use of it and cite it is so that they can avoid critically engaging with media. They just say, “this website says it’s bad” and turn their brains off, successfully short-circuiting cognitive dissonance.

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            1 year ago

            Ah, thanks for the clarification, I thought it was actually useful, but admit I had never looked into it and its sources.

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          It’s just some zionist’s blog site. You or I could make a site called official world bias meter and it’d be no more credible.

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          He is literally just some guy with no expertise in critical media analysis. He just made a website where he gives his opinions on how much you should trust a source.

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          I can’t recall if it is the MBFC person or the bot maker but one of them staunchy doesn’t think there’s a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘left’.

          So the inherent bias in their bias analysis is off the charts. Xzibit would be proud.

        • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          It’s not a good source. Biased towards whatever the guy who created it things. Thinks left v right in terms of usa so just about everything is left of center even when center. Oh an propaganda is okay as long as it’s western. Cause VOA and radio free Asia are given glowing marks

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            1 year ago

            Thank you for the clarification, I had thought it was a useful site, but admit I never looked into its sources.