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    Haha what if we apply more US bad to world events

    No, seriously, that article is manipulative AF.

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      Oh it’s this article that is manipulative AF, and not the propaganda that we’ve been fed day in & day out our entire lives[1].

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      the US media empire is manipulative AF all around the world, so it can continue their blood campaign unbothered. i don’t see libs batting an eye though.

      matter of fact thats what they consider unbiased news for some reason.

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          is this generally understood by the general population? especially in the 3rd world countries they manipulate where the connections between local news and pupeteer empire don’t look as close and/or are deliberately obscured…

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            No, of course not. Never was, nowhere is.

            The wish for “unbiased news” grew from the aftermath of WWI, but didn’t stick with the duopoly in the US.

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              that influence extends way past the us political system.

              in a way that makes it look like the center unbiased position, when its in fact very manipulative.

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                Yeah, that’s why we even care that the US has a duopoly.


                This particular thread is largely about “that’s what they consider unbiased news for some reason”

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                  and i was talking about why it is.

                  and maybe why explicitly anti-imperialist and anti-us media might sound manipulative to people used to imperialism being the center and not the right. we do need the proper us bad that has been lacking.

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      Just one more coup bro I promise just one more coup and it’ll fix everything bro please bro just one more coup this is the one that will work out well bro please

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        Because they are the good guys! The government and president and CIA and military and media and corpos said that! So what else can do a person from nominally anarchist community than just believe them and stand at the same side as, check notes… Al Qaeda, Netanyahu and Erdogan, true beacons of freedom.

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          It must be very easy to avoid grappling with real problems you benefit from if they paint Leftist thinking as “US bad.”

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          There are no beacons of freedom in Syria.


          Amalgamating Al-Qaeda, IDF, TSK into a coherent side is wild. HTS and SNA may have occupied populated Syria, but given the IDF’s air strikes and the continued pressure of TSK directly and through SNA indirectly against SDF, this war seems far from over.

          The fall of Assad does not endorse HTS. It simply is.

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        Opportunity.


        My point is, Syria is not played by various US actors alone, there are at least five countries involved with very different goals and ways of doing things.

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      Haha what if we apply more US bad to world events

      Then you would have a more correct understanding of geopolitics.

      No, seriously, that article is manipulative AF.

      I have no idea what that means

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        taboo to call

        We’re all meant to pretend

        People get mad if you say this, but it’s true.

        If my saying this makes you feel uncomfortable, that discomfort is called cognitive dissonance. It’s what being wrong feels like.

        But real life doesn’t move in accordance with your preferences.

        [communicative action] is the worst sin a person can possibly commit.

        Information density and transmission is polluted by the fears of not being convincing enough and not sounding radical enough.

        (IMO this can result from cynicism and sociopolitical isolation.)

        […] major world events do not occur independently of the actions of the major world powers who have a vested interest in their outcomes.

        Sure, but this does not explain why Assad, North Korea or Putin are good enough for an opposition or even the seed of that.

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          Information density and transmission is polluted by the fears of not being convincing enough and not sounding radical enough.

          It is just rhetoric on Johnstone’s website. It is a position piece. In what way are you being manipulated? This is actually more honest and direct than the faux-objectivity of typical articles.

          […] major world events do not occur independently of the actions of the major world powers who have a vested interest in their outcomes.

          Sure, but this does not explain why Assad, North Korea or Putin are good enough for an opposition or even the seed of that.

          It is unclear to me why you are quoting and arguing with that. Do you think I am Johnstone?