Whether long-range weapon or suicide bomber
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether soaraway Sun or BBC One
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruct
You coulda Caucasian or a poor Asian
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether inflation or globalisation
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether Halliburton, Enron or anyone
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
We need to find courage, overcome
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
Didn’t y’all invent that thing called RICO, where you can try many people all at once if they’re working under the same banner? MAGA is a criminal organisation, they’re all under the same banner.
It sounds illiberal as fuck, but do the fascists deserve liberty when their whole shtick is the denial of liberty?
It’s because imgur have geo-blocked the UK. Our online laws are so bonkers that they’ve just shut off our access instead of deal with them. Thanks though!
Who dis? Dis “Content not viewable in your region”
The BBC are talking 'bout the GDP
That means fuck all to me!
Lemmy?
Do you think we all hold the same opinion or something? You’re here too, you’re as much under that umbrella of vitriol that you’ve just spat as the rest of us.
Pfft, check out this lil hottie and his hairdo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen
I don’t know how to say this without doxxing myself so I guess all I can really say is some of his latest material borders on bigotry but doesn’t go far enough for you to be sure, and it could just be an ill thought out edgy routine. But I’ve spent a night drinking with him, and it’s not an edgy routine.
Can we skip to the part where Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Farage, Wilders, Musk, Le Pen, the ICE agent that lives down the street, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc etc etc get what they deserve please?
It doesn’t seem to have happened yet.
A shame he’s a bigoted arsehole who thinks “you can’t say anything these days” now, but I felt obliged to link this standup
Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes made of ticky tacky
Money can’t buy you class
Says the xenophobe…
Well, yeah. You should be critical of all media empires, even the “good” ones or the ones with the same political biases as you.
Try and get your news from a variety of sources.
That’s why Reddit used to be, and why Lemmy/Piefed now, are good. Because you’ll see 3 or 4 copies of the same story from different organisations with slightly different stances.
Unfortunately the American media landscape is dominated by a handful of rich owners. Often even when you think you’re getting a story from 2 different sources they’re ultimately owned by the same person (e.g. Rupert Murdoch) and despite one showing a “left” stance and one a “right” they may still be manipulating the facts somehow.
Getting the “truth” in any news story is difficult and getting a full and proper grasp of what is going on in the world even more so, but we can at least try.
Personally I’m enjoying the likes of Novara Media who are run as a non-profit and rely on donations instead of adverts. This method of funding means they’re not beholden to the whims of advertisers nor are they beholden to shareholders who demand ever more engagement to drive profit.
In saying that, I’m still aware that they have biases and that no news organisation is perfect. We must also be aware that all of us, all of us, can fall victim to propaganda and manipulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_reading
https://help.open.ac.uk/critical-reading-techniques/critically-processing-what-you-read
Amnesty International, Liberty, and the UN disagree with you.
https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-world/2025
A country actively kidnapping people off the streets, removing due process and habeus corpus, deporting prisoners to random countries, building concentration camps, and deploying troops on the streets has a score of 84/100. Forgive me for not feeling particularly free with my score of 91.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House#Criticism
Having a read of this I think it’s fair to say boiling down a nation’s “freedom” to a single number is a silly unacademic metric, before even getting into the likelihood of bias and manipulation.
If it looks like a duck fascist, swims like a duck fascist, and quacks like a duck fascist, then it probably is a duck fascist. Regardless of what a likely bias think tank’s research may say.
I gotta ask you, if every time Snotboogie would grab the money and run away, why’d you even let him in the game?
What?
If Snotboogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play?
Got to, this America man.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vviKymgEsFU&t=465s