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[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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.

Yes, I agree. But it's a common belief in the West that Russian and Chinese news, for example, are pure propaganda. The irony is that this belief is itself the result of propaganda.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That's a good point. I totally agree. Every news source has its biases.

The scary thing is getting hundreds of millions of people to believe Western news delivers the truth, while non Western news delivers the lies.

Also I don't believe there is a single correct position on every issue. But on genocide there is a basic take: stop it immediately.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

That's what this sub is about. Progressive politics now means pretending that your local right wing party is fundamentally different from your local left wing party. Both are funded by the same corporate interests and both are chock full of corrupt sell-outs. But one of them talks about helping people while actively screwing them over, so they are O-K!

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Consider The Guardian's campaign against Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite. Or their many character assassination pieces against Julian Assange. These campaigns serve the interests of the Zionist lobby and the US empire, respectively.

If you are critical of modern imperialism and capitalism, then The Guardian and AP do not have good takes on many issues. Currently, 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.

While they get on the bandwagon when critical mass gets unstoppable they also manufacture consent for empire.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Vexillographers are vexed by its vertex

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Since people are just going to make command line jokes and leave you confused, the spelling is "pseudo".

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The strange thing here is that Marty McFly is using the slang "heavy" and Doc Brown doesn't understand it. Yet the use of heavy to mean "profound, serious" started in Jazz in 1937. So Doc would have grown up with the word, and by the 80's I wonder if it was really all that popular anymore. McFly is using 50's slang in the '50s but the guy from the '50s doesn't get the slang. Maybe because he's not hip.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

"Knee high to a grasshopper" (short)

"Beyond the pale" (outside social norms, I think. Maybe just strange)

"Dance maven"

"I'll just do that in my copious free time..." (sarcastically, because you are too busy)

"Copacetic" (it's all good)

"Heavy" (meaning important, grave)

I learned all of these thirty years ago from a man in his fifties. He was full of interesting expressions.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just curious, how would someone do that? Pardon my noobiness.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Article warns that you will be profiled based on interests.

Article then profiles you based on interests. Proceeds to sell you VPN subscriptions.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

The irony is that a stillsuit is designed to prevent dehydration. But in her case it was the cause of dehydration.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mix everyone up in a big cauldron then shoot the mixture via cannon. Did I get it?

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