So am I. But then Objective Criteria is opinion based as who determines a fair or trusted source of information?
I think it will be difficult for her to head this off.
https://x.com/APHClarkson/status/1897218315581599892
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You seem to have a chip on your shoulder about fair or trusted sources of information, when the question about stupidity had nothing at all to do with sources of information.
But to answer that question, itâs called media literacy. Just because I donât like the Torygraphâs political lean and spin in many of their articles, doesnât mean I donât find it on the whole largely factual, nor the same for the WSJ. Itâs not as though the Grauniad is good across the board either. The FT tends to get things right, much better so than many other sources, but it doesnât mean theyâre perfect. But there are sources which are obviously not above lying for their agenda, and for Liverpool fans, we should all know that too clearly. There are also sources that exist just as clickbait, and so the veracity/reliability of the information is more than just suspect.
Anything on social media should be taken with an amount of salt that would make the Dead Sea proud.
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Imagine if the Mexican government somehow ends up solving their cartel problem by uniting with them against the US.
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Indeed. And to take this a bit further. Clickbait sources, can, sometimes, be accurate (but usually clickbait sources only trumpet out one sentence or meme, at most a very short article). However, you need to some how corroborate it and you should not trust it alone.
Usually, clickbait sources are 70-80% accurate, but lacks critical nuance, which often entirely changes the case at the hand. Often however, itâs pure unfounded nonsense and not at all 70-80% accurate. So read better sources, or do extra work and corroborate.
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Disney announce big cuts at the ABC News division including the complete shuttering of 538. That will be a big hit on the availability of data because they had become even more important in their data collection/aggregation than they were in analysis and it is not cheap to do what they did
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Everything is so fucking grim, so Iâll give you all a high five with something more pleasant that can bring forth a smile to your face:
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It is quite remarkable that no one faced this penalty for the January 6 attack on Congress, particularly because it resulted in fatality for a law enforcement officer. Had it been a black protest, I am quite sure there would have been dozens of capital trials.
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Being a trustworthy ally or even counterparty is not something that can switch every two years based on an election. The US cannot be trusted precisely because it has this element in its culture. It always has, but something has metastasized in the past 15 years.
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âin time of warâ
I think this is quite broad - the âcold warâ was sufficient for the Rosenbergs. I could see a (albeit vindictive) future administration charging and executing the entire cabal of this Republican administration if they were so minded.
That is really not far off what happened in the Mexican Revolution. The Sonoran generals who were in control in succession from 1920 were not themselves âbanditosâ, but were very much connected to the Sonoran groups that had made the area fairly lawless even before the uprising against Porfiro Diaz
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Trump talks about respect not being shown, and keeps referring to Trudeau as governorâŚand then we have this stupid cunt.
Canada needs to kick out any american bases, maybe have British and commonwealth troops invited over for ânational securityâ and military training exercises etc.
Denmark with the EU, needs to positiion troops in Greenland, and explain its for world security.
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Nice headlineâŚfragile. I think the real shock was seeing up close just how much makeup Noem cakes on to her face.
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Itâs the Daily Heil after allâŚ
This is actually completely and utterly disastrous:
https://x.com/shashj/status/1897263675024785731
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âInept negotiatingâ is an absurdly credulous way to report that news. Rather, it seems incredibly well targeted to give the trump admin the leverage it wants
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I agree, but Shashank is operating from a pov where he assumed that there is some sort of strategy that is supposed to benefit the US. He is not entirely naive, he concedes that that is a will for strategic rapprochment with Russia and that Trump want to sacrifice Ukraine for that, but he also thinks that Trump wants to force Ukraine into signing a humiliating mineral deal and that this is maybe not productive for even that.
But you and I think it is worse than that.
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If this doesnât work on Zelensky then how long before this administration shares intelligence with russia on Ukrainian positions
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