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I agree the west is becoming less democratic and the quality of life in China greatly improved, but there is severe oppression in China and that you choose to mention the quality of life over the influence people have on their government says a lot about your loyalty to the Chinese rulers.

That's mostly because the trustworthy news outlet from those countries don't publish in English whereas the propaganda is. But you're right people don't think there is independent journalism in Russia and China. That is not so much an east/west axis but a capitalist democracy / Communist authoritarianism axis.

US agencies might not have much reason, but foreign ones on the other hand definitely do have plenty of reasons.

I don't think they'd give him asylum from the goodness of their heart but this man has a lot to offer as long as he's an enemy of the US government.

I can't speak for all countries but of the people assuming Europe will be fine, most seem to be rifht wing voters. It's a good thing not everyone is in panic mode, but I agree people should be more aware of the current direction the world is heading in but there are also a lot of people who actually like this direction.

We could also have given Ukraine so much they won the war 2 years ago, problem is we also want healthcare, education and decent pensions. I mean it's good the German army feels we should help Ukraine win the war but let's not act as if this is a simple feat that doesn't require a lot of money. Without free American weapons it will be a lot harder to defend ourselves against Putins warmongering.

He's proven that alright

I don't disagree with your point, but except for electronics, and Italian marble America can make a lot of the materials themselves. The biggest problem is in many cases the price of labour in the US. And for complex things like cars you can't even move the entire supply chain even if you wanted to.

There was this guy who had a theory that there was nobody on earth who could make a microwave oven, turns out he was right: there are people who can know how to make a certain part of it and other people who knew about it's assembly nobody can create one start to finish. So imagine with more complex machines how difficult it'd be to bring all those skills and knowledge 'home' to America.

it's almost like Trump doesn't know what he's doing damage he's doing while stealing money or something*

I think it also shows they themselves know what they're doing is wrong. They know their current bosses and political leaders agree, they don't have to fear them in any way. They do it because it protects them from hysteric parents or angry mobs, but I think they most of all do it because theyvdont want there to be any evidence (= footage showing them doing this). This is not like people hiding their identity during a protest, this is like people hiding their identity when robbing a bank.

Makes most sense

I've had a bunch of questionable Google ai answers already, not as weird as this but enough to make me believe this could also be not fake.

While I sort of agree. I’m just gonna say, you ain’t gonna find anything mainstream western media that doesn’t have major ties to unethical corpos unless you basically force yourself to only use AP and the Guardian (and even then, pretty sure they still have dodgy ties, just it’s not as visible since no direct “ownership”.)

They are two examples of more believable / trustworthy western news outlets, I don't think anyone in this thread is anywhere close to implying all western news is true or that all non-western news is false.

Concerning genocide, almost everybody on earth agrees the only sensible thing is to stop it; that's why most pro-Israeli news act as if there is no genocide happening there. I think they are wrong, Israel is committing genocide.

The Guardian publishes articles critical of the genocide in Gaza, which is the only correct position to take on the issue. However they have served Zionist interests in the past and carried water for US warmongers.

You can be independent and still carry interests of Zionistd and US warmongers, both knowingly and unknowingly. You have every right to be skeptical because of previous publications and also every right to share that here, not trying to argue there, but there is no such things as always having the correct position. Every media outlet will at some point publish something questionable. My point being, you should never swallow news as a definite truth also when you're trusting a certain source in general.

But this isn't really evidence that they are.

So what you meant was: this isn't enough evidence to change my mind. That is a very different statement. I think this doesn't prove anything but it does support op's previous claims Reddit boosts Ars Technica content.

This isn't showing Reddit is shitty, it is showing it is used by it's parent company to influence the media landscape. That is not just shitty, it is amoral and can be very dangerous when it comes to political pieces.

Tech companies are using media companies to shape the world to their liking, just like robber barrons and aristocrats used to.

Volgens mij is er een groot verschil tussen wat mensen (zoals politici) zeggen te vinden en wat mensen echt vinden. De politiek is sowieso wat diplomatieker ingesteld, maar volgens mij praten die (net als de bazen van grote bedrijven) veel meer met hun belangen in het achterhoofd. Ook de ene na de andere universiteit stopt met samenwerken met Israelische uni's.

Volgens mij is een heel groot deel van de mensen die openlijk israel steunt van binnen ook hard aam het twijfelen of ze daar wel echt achter staan.

Het schijnt dus dat Yesilgöz jarenlang bij de SP heeft gezeten en haar politieke overtuigingen heeft aangepast omdat er bij de VVD meer carrière te maken was. Niet dat ik zo iemand macht gun, maar misschien is ze nog steeds bereid om haar politieke overtuigingen aan te passen als er daardoor nieuwe mogelijkheden ontstaan. Zegt ze gewoon dat ze het land wil dienen en dat de kiezer heeft gesproken enzo.

Het is een stuk makkelijker om mensen van iets te overtuigen als je leugens en halve waarheden verspreidt - links verliest (o.a.) omdat links deugt. Ik ben blij dat de linkse partijen zich niet verlagen tot het populistische gedoe dat de pvv groot heeft gemaakt.

Als de laatste peilingen ongeveer de uitslag zijn en de vvd niet langer met de pvv wil samenwerken (wat ik hoop maar niet verwacht), kunnen ze eigenlijk niet om pvda-groenlinks heen. Als pvda-groenlinks de grootste wordt en weigert met pvv samen te werken, kunnen zij eigenlijk ook niet om vvd heen.

Ik hoop dat, als het zo ver komt, vvd tussen die twee kaden (vanuit hun perspectief) kiest voor samenwerken met een partij met andere waarden en normen die wel bereid is zich in te zetten in het landsbelang dan dat ze nog een keer kiezen voor samenwerken met een partij met vergelijkbare waarden en normen die zich niet inzet voor het landsbelang.

Do you know if you upload something to instance a, does it get copied to instance b like text or would it just link to the original upload?