Hexadecimalkink @ Hexadecimalkink @lemmy.ml

Posts

14

Comments

521

Joined

2 yr. ago

I'm just entertained you're spending more time arguing than me than searching out a counter to your own argument. I do my research on both sides of an issue before sharing my opinion. You're just hiding behind a few links and foaming at the mouth that I haven't shared any links. Maybe if I'm bored this weekend I'll go through my KMS and find some citations for you since this isn't the common sense I thought it was.

"In defense of logic and facts" FTFY.

Oh sorry, read the first paragraph on that page. You don't need to read anything else. Usually when someone shares a link I read the first few sentences if there's no further explanation.

I've written papers where I just cited the articles that supported my arguments and didn't do a full analysis of the literature. It's a common practice in academia. Logic is better at convincing people.

Please cite more US sources about the US propaganda outlet.

To me, the only ground you step on is the one you build yourself is the only way to read the news. Maybe it's extra work and it's cynical but I'll read an article about something, say a riot in Haiti. Then a couple months later I'll read that it wasn't actually a riot, but it was a peaceful protest and mercenaries employed by the government started shooting at people to break it up. The media reported it as a riot and never followed up that it was a peaceful protest. Turns out the President of Haiti is allied with the west for exploitation of labour and resources of that country. So now most people think that Haiti is just disorganized and needs strong western leadership, meanwhile the opposition is being repressed and the media is supporting the western narrative by not following up on the "riot". That example is what I mean about not trusting anything I read until I've read different takes on a situation and considering my own skepticism. But it's a fair point that not all state owned media is bad, but I would just never trust a state owned media for any foreign/international issue for not having a slant in favour of the reporting state.

I concede it's a stretched argument but WaPo is known for hiring ex-State Department/ex-CIA staff onto its editorial board. I'm too lazy to find source but say something that gets me riled up and I'll find the source out of spite.

Just trolling now with nothing productive to add.

You're making this up. It's known around the world for being US propaganda. Next you'll be saying Stars and Stripes is highly objective.

I think you're just doubling down on your bad arguments with straw man fallacies now. Move on.

Correct.

Thank you for making it more blatant. I still don't think they'll get it.

I think you misread my post.

https://www.insidevoa.com/p/5831.HTML

🤡

Suggesting I have Brain Damage and then doubling down on your argument that VOA is as good as another state-owned media outlet that promotes its own nation with a history of imperialism, colonialism, and a bunch of other atrocities. I'm not sure if you think you're convincing me or anyone beyond your echo chamber of anything or just like to read your own words as reaffirmation of your own beliefs. Either way it's useless.

Yeah those are fair points. I'm not an expert on Russia it's a really complex country.

No not really unfortunately, I think every media outlet is biased. Le Monde Diplomatique is my favourite media outlet and I still think it's biased. I'm critical of all media when I read it and I think that's the only way to be in the age of disinformation. It's really funny to me that people rely on websites to tell them if media outlet is biased or unbiased because it's apparent that those sites themselves are biased.

IMO It's better to read theories, different takes on history, and then approach new news under different mental frameworks when trying to assess the reality of situations. But generally a political economic framework (ie power structures) is how I approach news articles for international events.

You don't think critically about mediabiasfactcheck?

Voice of America was created to promote American propaganda, it's literally the US propaganda outlet. You're a shill.

1. Washington Post is an american propaganda outlet when it comes to foreign policy articles. You might as well be linking VOA or RT.
2. That whole mutiny is fishy AF. There were rumours Prigozhin was betrayed by his deputy and informed the Kremlin. The CIA said they knew a week in advance. There was only a minor skirmish between a jet and a convoy on the way to Moscow where 12 soldiers died.

I don't understand what happened there or how the guy who tried to overthrow the government is still walking free. I've never heard of this in history before. The whole thing smells.

For me its because it's the default and I like the memes. For the person I'm commenting to he probably doesn't know how to configure it.