Someone in the propaganda system MUST be playing a practical joke. That or a Russian agent is gloatingly revealing that they are moled deep in, to mock Americans.
Alternative is that this is a mistake, just like the pictures of SU-30 jets in US Air Force propaganda tweets previously and the pictures of the Russian battlecruiser in previous US Navy propaganda tweets.
The alternative, also believable, is that the propaganda guy just adores Russia. A less plausible alternative is that the propaganda guy has an IQ of 80 and knows absolutely nothing about the outside world.
They have now opened a special counsel investigation in Jack Smith, claiming him doing his job was a political action and therefore a violation of the hatch act given he was a government employee.
A point made over and over again, but Trumpâs policies are not just bad, but that even when evaluated on his owns terms they fail and are incoherent.
We must beat China in AI, but first we must cancel funding for the premier applied mathematics center in the country because maths are woke
I have heard of a group around the Waterloo tech community trying to put together a âtown-gownâ fund to recruit some of these disaffected researchers for U of Waterloo. U of T has picked up some faculty, but not any in hard science that I am aware of.
Trust in the media is hitting hooker levels. Gosh, I wonder why.
There is a deep deep sickness on the left that absolutely refuses to believe any alternative arguments that challenge their narratives. Their response is to cancel and ban anyone who dares challenge their worldview.
Anyone running to the mods whining about this opinion, and any mods reacting to this opinion, merely reinforces my argument that the far left does not believe in free speech.
I have spoken to so many people who lived in the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s who recognize this impulse from the extreme far left today who want to control speech and thought lest anyone dare challenge the overwhelming leftist narrative of the day.
Iâm going to be back into my ancestral country of England next month, and Iâm going to ask everyone there why I should invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a country that appears to be backsliding into authoritarian anti-Westernism.
The fact that this breakdown in trust has put it at levels under 20% suggests it is not truly a left-right thing at all? Why would someone on the left trust seeing a network that once was the first to stand against Nixonâs criminality now pay bribes to a president who has done far worse?
The remaining 15 percent or so of Americans who still trust their media are very, very unlikely to be the âfar leftâ
This makes no sense. If you were investing 100s of millions you donât ask âeveryone thereâ why I should do so âbecause of authoritarian anti-westernismâ. You are full of BS.
In actual fact, capital flows are significantly moving out of the US because of the authoritarian anti-western democracy, shite of the MAGA republican deplorables.
This is primarily a problem on the Right. You know this well. I donât understand why you want to be intellectually dishonest and claim it is a âextreme Leftâ problem. Sure, itâs a problem on the left wing as well, but since the Tea Party, we saw alternative news and alternative facts materialise. That didnât exist before outside conspiracy mileuâs . The current MAGA is, as you well know, living in an alternative reality where facts does not matter . Yet I see you claiming this is a âextreme leftâ issue. The 20% MMS-loyal group you refer to would obviously be âcentristsâ, not far-leftist, who have traditionally always been very skeptical of the US Liberal media (because they view it to be essentially âThe Empire Speaksâ). But you yourself know (because you are not at all dumb, although you laser in with a bizarre focus that appears to be extremely stupid and/or dishonest to me), at least if you are honest, that this Fake News trend grew out of the extreme right and ludicrous libertarians such as; Limbaugh, Savage, Beck, Levin etc. and eventually become a monster. Now it is Mainstream.
Of course, it is far more complex, but it is pure dishonesty of you to seek to twist this monster into âleftist-creationâ. You know better, unless you are an imbecile or complete ignoramus. And you are not an imbecile. But I am starting to wonder if you are partly an ignoramus despite your experience and education, or if you are merely lying/trolling or fabulating with exaggerations.
In any case, your perspective, is incredibly unimpressive to someone with a bit of knowledge. A lot of what you tend to write, has been written before in this thread (criticism of Democratic party and the idiocy of the liberal-wing of the Democratic Party regarding Culture Issues, that they donât get the culture war and etc., all been said and written much about after the election; and you never bring new information to this topic, at least nothing that is new to me).
But spin you do. Itâs often like reading Sputnik News or Russia Today headlines. Selective. Contains facts, but little nuance and worse; even less context . And you know, when you write something but omitt important context and nuance, there is a word for that.
I cannot fathom why you cannot do better really when you clearly have a brain. You have some serious selective ignorance. Or you are dishonest. There is no reason why I should know US politics and the history of âFake Newsâ better than you who are, clearly US âeliteâ, as you have absolutely all the aids to be highly informed .
Even so, you appear to just regurgitate the same points; the flogged and debated to death horse. And it goes on and on. Same, same; nothing new. Itâs so boring. Intellectually speaking, it is like reading a manic little child. A little child who just cannot get over dinosaurs. There is nothing else to speak about but dinosaurs. Most of us have been there.
But you are not 6 years old and charming. Itâs remarkable to me that you seem to think that most of us are ignorant of what you post. You post opinions and research that is bloody fucking well known, after all. Maybe there is a very few people on this forum with absolute no interest in politics who are blissfully ignorant and have missed the stuff you post. But to some of us it is like the Clockwork Orange scene, except there is only one fucking documentary shown to the poor bastard getting brainwashed. And you were not the first to show the movieâŚ
Boring.
But at least I know that Toro agrees with me regarding how absolutely awful it is to âsanitiseâ novels. How disrespectful it is to the authour and his/her intellectual work; such as Roald Dahl. And how much better it would have been to instead parent kids and tell them that âthis is how they thought 50 years agoâ and actually make children (and adults) learn from the past, instead of liquidating history and cultural works with dishonest editing, to suit sensibilities of contemporary ethics (which imo should literally never be done).
Yai, I have an ally on the forum. I should be so happy. Just maybe not the one I wanted to convince; since Culture War stuff is the only thing he cares about and I have rather broader interests in politics than that
So you are not the only soul, who thinks ultra-liberals (and pandering to them) can be stupid and ruinous. But you ARE, fuck me, the only one to be totally obsessed with it and certainly the only one on this forum who thinks it is The Most Important Matter in the World. Itâs not, never has been.
WTF are you talking about? You actually believe that mainstream media, owned and run by capitalist conglomerates is being controlled by the far left in the US and the UK?
Newsflash, your version of far-left has nothing to do with the real thing. It is something you concocted in order to justify and validate your beliefs. You have no idea how it was to live under a communist regime, because if you had, you wouldnât be coming up with this nonsense.
I wish that far-left regimes were as mellow and amiable as whatever passes as far-left in your head.
The shitstorm around Roald Dahl was a total fabrication.
Like night follows day, as soon as gullible people had been whipped into a frenzy about the books, the estate announced that insanitised versions would be available after all, which proceeded to sell like hot cakes.
