mycorrhiza they/them @ mycorrhiza @lemmy.ml

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They changed one unsourced claim to another unsourced claim. Neat.

Why did they publish it?

Because it vilifies an enemy state, which is convenient when you want public support for sanctions against that enemy

If you asked an intelligent person, "how would you publish propaganda," you'd just do it like Russian Times: just straight-up repeat the state's lies and never bother reporting anything close to the truth.

Are you serious? Is this really what you think?

Could you explain why you think this?

We'll look at an example from another US state media outlet: Radio Free Asia

In 2014, Radio Free Asia wrote a story claiming North Korean students were forced to get the Kim Jong Un haircut. The story spread like wildfire. It was on all the news stations, all the talk shows, Kimmel, Colbert, John Oliver. TV commercials riffed on it. The whole American media ecosystem was unanimous, everyone believed this shit. Regular people on the street could tell you about it.

Then it came out that Radio Free Asia made it up. Someone at Radio Free Asia sat down and deliberately wrote a false story with the intent to deceive the public, and then Radio Free Asia published that story as fact in order to smear an enemy of the United States.

Radio Free Asia, like VoA, has excellent scores on all the media bias and fact-checking sites. This is because they sprinkle their bullshit carefully. RFA's hit pieces are mixed in among hundreds of ordinary, mundane, reputable current events stories. You go to the site and you see headlines like you might see on any other site. But when you go digging, you start to find dozens of unsourced claims about China and North Korea mixed in. The rest is just reputation laundering to support the bullshit.

If you asked an intelligent person, "how would you publish propaganda," RFA is the format they would come up with.

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What’s that got to do with anything?

Stopping nazi rallies is the main thing antifa does. You seem to oppose them doing it.

I’d make them illegal, if I were in a position to do so

But you’re not. None of us are. So that leaves what other options?

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What is your solution to prevent nazi rallies?

I think Salvador Allende tried that. The west couped him and installed a fascist dictator who threw leftists out of helicopters.

Half of them are anarchists, calling them authoritarian is a grandpa’s facebook-tier understanding of the situation

That tends to happen when one side knows a lot more than the other side in a conversation

Do you oppose capitalism? Usually socialism implies not capitalism.

Some people have perverted the term to mean “capitalism but we have social services.”

Isn’t “sneed” mostly a 4chan joke these days? Seeing it in someone’s username always makes me squint