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11 days agoAmnesty International, Liberty, and the UN disagree with you.
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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
duckfascist, swims like aduckfascist, and quacks like aduckfascist, then it probably is aduckfascist. Regardless of what a likely bias think tank’s research may say.
3·22 days agoI 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.
The Netherlands, the country where Anne Frank famously hid from the Nazis. Which they now big up as a tourist attraction and evidence of their resistance to fascism. Now, likely going to bend the knee to fascism by sending modern-day Anne Frank back to the modern-day Nazis.
Fucking pathetic. No backbone, no courage, no morals.
The same, of course, can be said of my country as well.
Money, ignorance, ego, cruelty, hate, and idiocy rule the roost. Europe is not standing up to fascism as it should, but rather, embracing it. Forgetting all the lessons that were learned from the 1930s to 1945.
Never believe that
anti-Semitesfascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. Theanti-Semitesfascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.- Jean-Paul Sartre
Thanks for the second source. The Telegraph is a right wing rag.
Hey now! The Americans have done far more than that, they’ve peacefully wandered around the neighbourhood and played some acoustic guitar. If that doesn’t attract the attention of politicians, what will?
/s
What are you talking about? I’ve been keenly following UK politics for about 15 years now and can’t think of any examples off the top of my head.
John Prescott got a reputation but that’s because someone threw an egg at him in the street so he punched the guy. Other than that I can’t think of any famous examples of politicians fighting.
I’ll take wasps any day over midgies.
Wasps will usually leave you alone, midgies will eat you alive!
That’s not exactly how it works though. Diplomatic immunity doesn’t have to be extended to anyone you don’t wish to extend it to. Ambassadors are regularly made to leave countries when those countries have disagreements. Diplomatic immunity is a courtesy, not a requirement.
If Putin steps foot in most European countries he should, by law, be arrested. There is no diplomatic immunity for him. This only happened because America isn’t signed up to the ICC and doesn’t give a fuck about basic decency, human rights, or war crimes.
They extended an invite to a war criminal, to supposedly resolve a conflict, without inviting the other side of the conflict. That’s not how diplomacy works. That’s corruption.
Also, England didn’t do shit. The UK did. Westminster. I should know, I live here. And I don’t live in England.
And it isn’t pro-Palestine speech, it’s pro a very specific group. I disagree with it heavily and view it as authoritarian, but let’s make sure we’re not spreading misinformation here. Support of Palestine Action is banned, not Palestine.
That’s fan ih wee beastie bastard midgies cim oot though!
The term you’re looking for is an egalitarian.
Do you think Hitler would have been granted diplomatic immunity if he visited?
This is not a normal diplomat. This is a person who has committed multiple, documented, crimes against humanity. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court, commonly known as The Hague. If arrested they are likely to hang him until he is dead for the mass suffering he has caused around the world. That is the punishment the Nazis received.
Legitimate negotiations are impossible without inviting Zelensky and yet they have declined to do so. To claim negotiations require diplomatic immunity for Putin, a war criminal, but not to invite Zelensky is ridiculous.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Russian_leaders
Edit: I’m aware America isn’t signed up to the ICC, that doesn’t change the point though
So the Republicans have TACO and the Democrats have NACHO?
And this is why ACAB regardless of whether they’re a “good one” or not.
As long as police forces ignore the right of expression and protest, in favour of the whims of the government of the day, they are bastards.
Oh winter is coming.
It’s just going to take a while, but it will come.
And it will either be a nuclear winter or an ice age. Yay!
More than 100 BBC employees are accusing the corporation of providing favourable coverage toward Israel and are calling on the broadcaster to “recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality” over its reporting on Gaza.
In a letter sent to Tim Davie, signed by more than 230 members of the media industry, including 101 anonymous BBC staff, the corporation is criticised for failing its own editorial standards by lacking “consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza”.
In 2006, shortly after this study was published, research commissioned by the BBC’s Board of Governors and carried out by Loughborough University confirmed many of its key findings. In addition, the BBC’s independent panel report highlighted the corporation’s “failure to convey adequately the disparity in the Israeli and Palestinian experience, reflecting the fact that one side is in control and the other lives under occupation” and stressed the BBC’s need “to fill in the gaps, most obviously in respect of context and history”.
Despite this, emerging research on BBC reporting since 7 October 2023 has produced similar findings, such as a lack of historical context, and differential use of language in relation to Palestinian and Israeli victims. Imbalances in coverage appear to be a long and consistent feature of BBC reporting.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bbc-impartiality-trust-israel-gaza-media-experts/
They are most definitely bias. They’re only changing their tune now after months of pressure and because the government, since Lammy visited, is changing their tune too.
This isn’t their first explicit bias either:
So, on the objective evidence presented here, the mainstream TV coverage of the first year of the independence referendum campaigns has not been fair or balanced. Taken together, we have evidence of coverage which seems likely to have damaged the Yes campaign.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum-new-report/
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