• DandomRude@piefed.social
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    28 days ago

    Looking at the comments here, even here in the Fediverse, it’s quite easy to understand how the US regime is possible despite its completely obvious depravity.

    • starik@lemmy.zip
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      28 days ago

      We don’t need to manufacture grievance to criticize our government and institutions. In fact, it weakens our case when we do so.

      The top comment outlines some very reasonable explanations for the difference in phrasing between the two headlines. If you’re always assuming the worst possible motivations, people aren’t going to take you seriously.

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        28 days ago

        I’m sure the newspaper that cheerleaded us into the Iraq war and is owned by a board of billionaires is following only the strictest code of ethics when it comes to reporting on American warmongering.

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        28 days ago

        If you’re always assuming the worst possible motivations, people aren’t going to take you seriously.

        When it comes to corporate news sewers, you’re barking in the wrong toilet.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      It’s “quite easy to understand” because that’s how the Dunning–Kruger effect works: the less you know, the more simplistic your understanding of a system, and the easier it is to confidently make bullshit claims and pretend you know what you’re talking about.

      • DandomRude@piefed.social
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        28 days ago

        Yes, I’m simplistic when it comes to this: I wouldn’t accept being ruled by organized crime that covers up its heinous crimes by starting a war. But hey, it’s nice that you know the names of two renowned psychologists.

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          28 days ago

          it’s nice that you know the names of two renowned psychologists.

          The painfully unearned smarm almost masks the way you have no idea how any of this works and just want to manufacture a reason to be mad at the NYT’s coverage of the Middle East – coverage that already has a million provable things to be mad at (of which that link is just a small sample). You’re trying to perform alchemy in a fucking gold mine, and it’s baffling.

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            28 days ago

            Please explain it to me. And by that I don’t mean a general explanation of how journalism works, because I probably know a whole lot more about that than you do, but an explanation of why you believe that the US, together with Israel, should not be held responsible for the murder of innocent children. And then I would also like to know what your motivation is for defending the current US regime, because I don’t understand it.

            • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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              28 days ago

              “Please explain it to me. Not the actual thing we’re talking about, because I actually don’t care to consider why I might be wrong, but about this batshit strawman argument I created.”

              Checking off all the boxes. If you want to talk to someone who’s whatever you tell them they are, then fuck off to ChatGPT, you clown.