politics

i like how Iran has never committed a single act of "terrorism" or supported any organisation which does and yet

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

Albert Einstein

How to stop being a liberal: realizing that this extends to media beyond just media that glazes Trump

Honestly he should get it, the price is a joke anyway. If kissinger can get it why can't he?

If Obama got one don't see why Trump can't get one either, it's clearly a complete sham.

Worst state sponsor of terrorism

The projection is strong with this one.

Hey aren't you the same person that should be banned for whining about your pro-Zionist bullshit story about Palestinians supposed mass SA against settlers got removed?

You're the person posting hasbara atrocity propaganda, and you're here to tell us that corporate media can't be trusted because dRuMpF bAd

Amazing

Bush already stopped Saddam from using WMDs, and he never got the price. Trump is still playing catch up.

Complete the farse circle. Make the award really worthless. DEW IT!

The funniest possible outcome is that Trump gets dozens of newsworthy nominations, but still doesn't win the Prize.

fuck it, why not

I've said it before, but I really don't understand how these "Journalists" function. Like, surely they would know that flat out lying to people is the opposite of all those starry-eyed dreams they had studying journalism at uni. Like, surely someone gets into journalism because they want to inform the public, or they want to win a Pulitzer or something. So I don't get how they could be so soulless in their career, how do they justify it to themselves? Is it just the money? Is it the "if I wasn't doing this, someone else would be, so I might as well benefit" are they true believers who think that anything can be justified, as long as it makes "their side" look good? I can't imagine them being anything other than incredibly evil and selfish, or incredibly naive or stupid, or some combination of the two.

I don't think there's a single group of people I would trust less than journalists, maybe political scientists or economists.

EDIT: I think I might've found a worse group of people, the sort of people who recognise that journalists are full of shit, and yet will take the word of journalists as gospel, as long as it agrees with their preconceived notions about the scary brown people.

opinion section, sounds like the NYT isn't the only paper with a bedbug problem

The “cool” nations should make an equivalent award, but that doesn’t go to war criminals

Make it a double whammy and give him the fake one for economy as well