Holy compression Batman!

Yeah I struggled to find another way to phrase it, because even the idea of being critical is highly dependent on your perspective. You have to have a level of skepticism I think to even begin to be critical. Liberalism is constantly working to ensure that you never become skeptical of its own institutions or ideas. Deeply uncurious might be a more accurate way to say it, or passive consumers of media. The whole phenomenon of fact checking and media bias is rooted in things like Russiagate and Covid misinformation.

This idea of objective truth or empirical truth as applied to factuality in media attempts to collapse the realm of what is possible or to narrow the scope of reality. Its attached to liberal obsession with institutions and ideas and their infallibility. Take the the Washington Post. Media Bias Fact Check says it has a LEFT-CENTER BIAS. Meanwhile, you have Jeff Bazos preventing them from endorsing a candidate and then saying their opinion pages will “defend free market and ‘personal liberties’”. But liberals will not recall that, they’ve probably forgotten these things even happened. To them WaPo isn’t a conservative rag so its good. Even the idea of what is Left is part of the ruling ideas. Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism, are all regulated to fringe status, deeply equated with fascism to dilute their character, with the goal of excluding them from the “Left” category, which is how you arrive at “LEFT-CENTER BIAS”.

Trustworthy by whose standards?

From Marx’s The German Ideology: “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas … The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it.”

You can’t just say “You believe trustworthy means you shouldn’t read something uncritically” when we are LITERALLY talking about what the nature of TRUST and FACT even is, and where people and institutions get their AUTHORITY from.

This is what I mean! You can’t even imagine a situation where a “media bias” site Isn’t BIASED and doesn’t skew their results based on that bias, resulting in the “additional information” CONTRIBUTING TO BIAS.

They all have bias and yet ARE THE ARBITER’S OF BIAS. Do you understand the contradiction now? They do nothing to help a person to be critical because they launder their authority, which is given to them by the uncritical masses, to distribute their bourgeois bias under the guise of neutrality!

The fact that you think its a good idea shows that you believe, even if you are not aware, that your positions are neutral when they’re not. If you are not investigating your own bias why should we bother with comments telling you what is or isn’t biased? All that’s signaling to you is if something is “good” or “bad” because your position is “good” and not biased at all.

I, and others with my perspective, understand that everything has a bias, and you need to be able to read something critically to find that bias. These bias checking sites are not doing that, they are only looking to ensure people who share your view, the natural or default perspective, or the neoliberal perspective, do not read the “wrong” content.

What!?!?!?

Red Wizard standing by!

I find this stuff so interesting, but there are never enough details to satisfy me when I read these kinds of news stories. It really tickles that part of my brain that just enjoys finding optimizations and efficiencies, but applied to a mass political movement and a people’s democracy. How can we ensure that all parties are involved, engaged, and that their ideas and concerns reach a national stage and inform broader changes? How do we bridge the gap between local, regional, and national characteristics and meet the demands of all three spheres? This level of organization sounds interesting, and I’d love to read about the details.

“Getting Your Shit Together” is another project on the pile of hobby projects you hyper-focused on for a week, bought half the required components for, then got bored of due to lack of immediate results or progress, or some unseen complications.

My wife gets more use out of my whiteboard then i do at this point.

Here is a good one for you:

I have an app that prompts me to do things every day, like take my meds.

I have to click Yes or No on the prompt to clear it.

Some days, ill take my meds but not clear the prompt.

Then ill see the prompt later that same morning and wonder “Shit… Did I take my meds, or did i forget to clear the prompt…”

I always err on the side of “I took my meds”.

The meme stabbed them in the gut.

The people of Ukraine are Putler!

Lol look at that V shape at the end of the day between 3 and 4. These charts are going to fucking soar tomorrow. I love the three month recurring rug pull!

“I’m thinking of Chris Smalls. And about how, because he’s Black, no Greta Thunberg, no celebrity, no darling of the liberal class, he might not make it out alive,” wrote author Camonghne Felix

Fuck…

😱

Put the radiation directly into my vanes!

To kickstart that process, the group said that 12 states from across the world - Bolivia; Colombia; Cuba; Indonesia; Iraq; Libya; Malaysia; Namibia; Nicaragua; Oman; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; and South Africa - have committed to implementing the six measures immediately through their domestic legal and administrative systems.

The six measures are as follows:

1. Prevent the provision or transfer of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel.

2. Prevent the transit, docking, and servicing of vessels at any port…. in all cases where there is a clear risk of the vessel being used to carry arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel.

3. Prevent the carriage of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel on vessels bearing our flag… and ensure full accountability, including de-flagging, for non-compliance with this prohibition.

4. Commence an urgent review of all public contracts, to prevent public institutions and funds from supporting Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territory and entrenching its unlawful presence.

5. Comply with obligations to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes under international law, through robust, impartial and independent investigations and prosecutions at national or international levels, to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes.

6. Support universal jurisdiction mandates, as and where applicable in national legal frameworks and judiciaries, to ensure justice for victims of international crimes committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Hmm no China in this list. Disappointing. But this is real progress.

"[The US will] aggressively defend our interests, our military, and our allies, including Israel, from such coordinated legal and diplomatic warfare. We urge our friends to stand with us in this critical endeavor.”

Sounds like a good way to start a world war that you’ll ultimately lose.

I went on the fucking Israeli Amazon storefront, dipshit; it won’t even let me add them to my fucking cart. Please explain to me how they get the drones. I’ve even debunked my own fucking assumption in the process of trying to tease that process out of you.

Which Chinese drones can they get from Amazon? I just replied to you in another comment and showed that the AUTEL brand drones can’t be shipped to Israel via Amazon, and they have a statement on their website making it clear they will not ship them. https://hexbear.net/comment/6319426

DJI doesn’t appear to ship to Israel either and also has a statement on their website from 2022 about the use of their drones for military operations.

I really don’t care about the links and will not bother reading them as they contradict basic observations.

Oh, I’m sorry! Did I provide you evidence that there are no targeted bans on drones? Why do you think Ukraine can’t “buy drones from China” (again, a process you haven’t even explained)? Is it because they have no functioning economy and no semblance of an operating country because their territory is currently and actively being besieged? Is UPS supposed to roll up on the battle field and drop off a stack of DJI drones from a recently obliterated Amazon Warehouse directly to the Azov Battalion?

We live in a globalized capitalist economy; you could buy DJI drones right now and contact Zelenskyy directly and have them shipped to his doorstep tomorrow if you so wished.

Where does the IDF get their drones sourced from? Resellers? Direct partnerships with AUTEL? China has implemented global restrictions on selling drones and drone technology for the use as weapons. You continue to say that “China is selling drones to Israel,” but all you’ve shown is that Israel is acquiring Chinese drones; how they source them is important here, and you have yet to show how they source these drones. If they are sourcing them through third-party resellers internationally, then that’s obviously different compared to the claim that they’re getting them “from China,” which, again, you haven’t defined in any capacity. Amazon could be that third-party entity that facilitates getting around these export restrictions, which is why it’s relevant. The drones featured in the article you posted are easily acquired from Amazon.

You know, I decided to look at Amazon’s Israeli website, and they won’t even ship AUTEL drones to Israel.

So the question still stands: how does the IDF get the drones? According to Autel, they have banned the sale of their drones to the entire region. They’ve made two statements on the matter. Here:

• https://www.autelrobotics.com/news/non-military-use-of-autel-robotics-products-statement-2/
• https://www.autelrobotics.com/news/non-military-use-of-autel-robotics-products-statement/