The very idea of calling a middle class millenial hipster a journalist and sending them off to a war torn country so they could do drugs with a cartel and report back on the underground scene there is pure 2010s.
And when it happened across real journalism, it took it in its stride. This was the competition to main stream media. It was aware and smart.
It was also shockingly platform literate. The video content was just as vital as the written stuff.
The fact it didn't endure is pretty sad. It's fairly indicative of where we are going.
I saw this article the same day that I saw Google announce the removal of the news tab from its search results.
The loop is just pretty dull. The stakes never really feel that high.
Totally understand why some people dig it though, especially those playing with pals.
And yeah, can you imagine buying a ticket to see a film and being told there's not enough room in the cinema, so stand outside and just wait. I'm not sure that's a great experience.
20 years is a lot of time for a 20 year old, right?
The bigger picture is that 20 years is still very recent history.
That’s like saying that people can’t be upset at other countries for discriminating against LGBTQ+ people because American TV in the early 2000’s had jokes at their expense
Yeah. It is. The fact the US still has TV shows that make those jokes, the very fact that morality is relative to the US is sort of the problem here. At best it is imperialism. At worst it is rank hypocrisy.
Do you really think there weren't people in the US, prominent people, people in politics and in the media, calling for the death of innocent Muslims?
There were tons of public calls for some of the most brutal forms of reprisal. There were mass burnings of the Koran.
Did you miss the bit where the US invaded an entire country that had, it turns out, nothing to do with the terrorist attack at all?
I'm not saying any of what is happening in Israel is right. Far from it. But the idea that the US is somehow in a position of moral superiority here is wild.
You seem to be adopting a revisionist past where actually all they did was rename some fries in the cafeteria of their actual government.
The absolute torrent of global hatred that spewed out through the mainstream US media dwarfed what we are currently seeing from Israel, in terms of both soft insinuation and outright calls for death.
Ok, Trump aside, do you remember the US response to the 9-11 attacks?
Israel is bang out of order, but it doesn't help that the groundwork for dealing with "terrorists" on a global scale was laid by the US.
Remember renaming French fries to "Freedom Fries" because the French dared to oppose the invasion of Iraq, a country that had very little to do with the terrorist act?
Also, it's good to mention that no damage is being done here. The way some media reports it, you'd swear they were destroying valuable public art. They really aren't, but it gets spun that way.
Meanwhile the rich people that are responsible for the majority of climate damage stand in their own private collections completely undisturbed.
Sure this grabs headlines, but momentarily and often preaching to the converted or the disenfranchised.
I'm not saying I have any good answers, and I'm sure we'll all burn and starve thinking of ways to change the minds of people that have power... But there has to be some way to take the protest to them in ways that actually inconveniences them, as opposed to the people that already broadly support this cause.
And yeah, it grabs headlines, briefly, but look at how the media is complicit with the companies and individuals and governments causing the destruction. If they were really bothered about this sort of protest, the chances are you wouldn't see it. The fact we are seeing it probably means that they've evaluated it to cause more contention among the voters, which works in their favour.
I realise I'm starting to sound like a conspiracy nut. Too many references to shady power and control... But sanctioned protest isn't protest at all. It's a sideshow that makes people think they are helpless or that work is being done when it isn't.
And before the "acshurly this wasn't sanctioned" reply... No, you're right, not explicitly, but we still allow people to walk into public buildings without the sort of security you find at airports. I do wonder if that will start changing. I already know a few that won't let you walk around with bags of any kind, and next up comes a frisk and an interview.
Ay, I know... But it's frequent that folk are ignorant about the language spoken here. It's not strictly English.
If you'd checked out the link you'd see that it sounds like English a lot of the time, but is its own distinct branch, not just including the pronunciation but the words too.
I'm not talking about Gaelic here, but the the sort of English where you can call someone a fud whilst smiling at them because they don't know what it means.
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