Obviously there's some level of objectivity journalists have to have, but this description of Elon's Nazi salute is absolutely sane-washing and gives the reader the impression that its all a big hubub.
Laura Smith resigned from the Towamencin Township Board of Supervisors after a video in which she mimicked a gesture made by Elon Musk during a rally related to President Trump's inauguration. During a speech, Musk held his hand to his chest and then extended his arm saying "my heart goes out to you." Some said the gesture looked like a Nazi salute, while others said it was a harmless gesture taken out of context.
They could've just said
During a speech, Musk held his hand to his chest and then extended his arm, in a similar gesture to a Nazi salute
and they still would've been in the realm of objectivity that you describe. But instead, they downplay it all in a single sentence by saying, "Some said the gesture looked like a Nazi salute." They won't even bring themselves to say "Many said the gesture looked like a Nazi salute."
All outlets have to do this sort of shimmy, sure. But we all see the direction that they shimmy, and it's not toward the direction of truth.
lmao, assumptions. No journalist who says, "Elon did a Nazi salute twice," is making an assumption. They are reporting the fact that he did a Nazi salute twice on TV. You could maybe argue that a journalist saying, "Elon Musk is a Nazi" would be making an assumption, based on the fact that he did a Nazi salute twice on television. And I'm sure you would argue that, because you certainly sound like a Nazi defender.
But nobody calling Elon's Nazi salute as they see it is assuming anything. We all saw it and we all know what it was. Even if he didn't intend for it to look like a Nazi salute, that's what it was. Anyone trying to make it out that it wasn't a Nazi salute, tiptoeing around language, is justifying doing the Nazi salute. You are defending the sane-washing of someone doing a Nazi salute. You think responsible reporting is normalizing the Nazi salute by dancing around the word Nazi? Well, then I, a non-journalist who is allowed to make assumptions, will assume you are a Nazi sympathizer.
For me, the grim outlook began when studios kept trying to cash in on the stories I loved, and continually ruined them. Games, TV, Movies. Enshittification started there, imo. It makes sense, really, for the product to be mediocre or even bad. And it makess sense why conservatives are so obsessed about efficiency. An efficiently made product is the worst possible version of the product that the market continues to accept.
just this past year i watched eraserhead so i could watch elephant man so i could watch twin peaks so i could watch twin peaks fire walk with me so i could watch twin peaks the return. and now he's dead.
damn.
guess i gotta watch blue velvet so i can watch mulholland drive.
"This is not the platform to discuss organizing," communism@lemmy.ml said.
Obviously there is more to their comment, and they are totally right. But it's ironic because it subverts your expectation of what a user called communism@lemmy.ml would say
You don't see the irony there? In your username being communism@lemmy.ml and your comment being
I’m politically active in several local organisations and if I have anything to discuss about that I discuss it with them, not with random people on social media. This is just not the platform for that.
It just tickles my humor. Its not a dig at you or anything. Local organization is most effective.
I think you might misunderstand me. I'm not saying that the only way to attain power is through wealth. Im pushing back against your idea that since an individuals wealth isn't cash, it's not worth accounting for. It may stop making sense to count, but only in the sense that it literally becomes incomprehensible to, and at that point it is long overdue to say it is too much. The vast power those people have is due to their net worth. Because someone else has vast power without the wealth doesn't contradict that fact.
Also I don't really see why you're tying up your freedom with billionaires, as if it is a binary choice between billionaires and personal freedom or no billionaires and tyranny. That's a bit of a strange equivalency you draw. In any case, and in practical terms, you* probably don't even have the freedom to be in the presence of the wealthiest of wealthy, let alone fart in front of them.
*assuming you are not ultra wealthy or somehow related personally to a member of the ultra rich
Edit: in other words, billionaires don't grant you your freedom -- and their freedom to extract capital and accumulate vast amounts of wealth probably has little bearing on your right to your house or personal property. In fact, they are far more equipped to seize things like your land, your data, your means of subsistence, than you are to defend them.
Untill I grew up and realised it’s not money they’ve got, it’s estimated net worth. It’s hard to turn that into cash.
I used to think that, too. But just because its not cash doesn't mean it doesn't still translate to wealth or power. They essentially park their money in investments, liquidate when they need to, but otherwise use their assets to extract further wealth exert further influence.
This is the only hot take in this whole thread lol
My lukewarm take is that Star Wars has varied so greatly in quality from product-to-product, that any take that categorizes some of it as bad and some of it as good is a lukewarm, standard take.
Obviously there's some level of objectivity journalists have to have, but this description of Elon's Nazi salute is absolutely sane-washing and gives the reader the impression that its all a big hubub.
They could've just said
and they still would've been in the realm of objectivity that you describe. But instead, they downplay it all in a single sentence by saying, "Some said the gesture looked like a Nazi salute." They won't even bring themselves to say "Many said the gesture looked like a Nazi salute."
All outlets have to do this sort of shimmy, sure. But we all see the direction that they shimmy, and it's not toward the direction of truth.