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Me, taking the time to translate an article from a news site I've never seen before: (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Erika3sis@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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"Huh, this article is surprisingly opinionated — not that I actually necessarily disagree with its analysis, not for the most part at least, it just strikes me as unusual for a news site to be this opinionated. Who are these people?"

"...So apparently this site started out as somebody's personal blog? And later became a 'proper' news site? That's neat, I guess, but I'm just getting some bad vibes here..."

"Oh, this site has a COVID-19 tag? Is this going to be like the only COVID-conscious news site in all of Norway? Let's see what these people have to say about COVID..."

[reads the newest COVID articles]

[it's all anti-mask, anti-vax conspiracy brained bullshit]

"...Welp, the article I translated has absolutely nothing to do with any of that nonsense, but I'm still just Not going to post to Hexbear an article from a site that's this reactionary about COVID. I don't want to give them publicity. I don't want these weirdos representing my beliefs about food sovereignty and militarism. I don't care how much effort I put into my translation, I'm just not going to share it."

This has been a lesson in being critical of your sources and being duly skeptical of things even if you already agree with them.

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The site is steigan.no by the way, the about page talks about how the site is "dedicated to critical journalism covering imperialism, war, oppression, exploitation, and threats to the environment, and investigations into capitalist system and its alternatives" (paraphrase) — which together with the clearly leftist aesthetics of the site's design made me think "oh, I guess this is a leftist site?"

But even in the article I was translating, which was about a proposed land seizure in connection with the Ørland airfield, there were a few points in the article where I was thinking "this feels petty bourgeois..." — like how the article was overly sympathetic to farmers and landowners, or how the article lamented the "cost to taxpayers" and things like that. So those were the things that made me raise an eyebrow, especially in the current political climate with the Peace & Justice Party's big reveal about their biggest donor.

I should probably read Lenin's On Petty Bourgeois Revolutionism. I'm reckoning it's probably relevant.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the Peace & Justice Party's big reveal about their biggest donor.

Who?

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

The Peace & Justice Party's biggest donor is Atle Berge, a billionaire in NOK (i.e. several-hundred-millionaire in USD) with strong business interests in Russia. So I'm just saying that, regardless of what the proletarian interests may be with regard to Russia and NATO, that really most of the opposition to NATO militarism in Norway right now is led by the section of the local bourgeoisie for whom the militarism particularly hurts their bottom line.