Authoritarian and Totalitarian Democracies

[sunday]

Nazis should be arrested when young.

Except in Ukraine. In Ukraine they could dictate government policy.

[NickM]

1 hour ago, lucklucky said:

Germany

Too much Ostie influence 

[BansheeOne]

You guys don't cross-check with other threads on here, do you?

[Ssnake]

Why would anyone bother with looking deeper into a story when you have catchy, one-sided summaries that are designed to obfuscate?

 

 

[BansheeOne]

Well, I note there are posters who will scream about the lying, terror-complicit media if an article uses as much as one descriptor they don't like for a group or individual, or fails to check a claim which later turns out to be wrong. Yet they'll uncritically build entire threads out of much worse examples of "journalism" because those fit their own bias. You might expect at least some of the dilligence used on the former for the latter.

As I like to say, critical reception of reports you don't like is easy. Critical reception of those which confirm your own opinion all too well is hard, but even more necessary.

[rmgill]

8 hours ago, Ssnake said:

Why would anyone bother with looking deeper into a story when you have catchy, one-sided summaries that are designed to obfuscate?

 

[rmgill]

 

[Murph]

 

[X-Files]

[Ivanhoe]

6 minutes ago, X-Files said:

Supposedly Genghis Khan tallied 40M, so more than Stalin, fewer than Mao.

 

[lucklucky]

On 3/24/2024 at 9:32 AM, BansheeOne said:

Well, I note there are posters who will scream about the lying, terror-complicit media if an article uses as much as one descriptor they don't like for a group or individual, or fails to check a claim which later turns out to be wrong. Yet they'll uncritically build entire threads out of much worse examples of "journalism" because those fit their own bias. You might expect at least some of the dilligence used on the former for the latter.

As I like to say, critical reception of reports you don't like is easy. Critical reception of those which confirm your own opinion all too well is hard, but even more necessary.

Maybe you can tell me if "kill the rich" in German lands how many under same predicament?

[Ssnake]

Huh?

[rmgill]

On 3/24/2024 at 5:32 AM, BansheeOne said:

Well, I note there are posters who will scream about the lying, terror-complicit media if an article uses as much as one descriptor they don't like for a group or individual, or fails to check a claim which later turns out to be wrong. Yet they'll uncritically build entire threads out of much worse examples of "journalism" because those fit their own bias. You might expect at least some of the dilligence used on the former for the latter.

I was at CNN when they had political shows that had balance. They had clear political commentary and it was 2 sided. See also Crossfire. 

It mutated under Jeff Zucker to being one sided political commentary by people who for example had no clue how a gun worked prognosticating on the nation on how they should be regulated. If you can't tell me what the bullet is that comes out of the barrel of the gun you have no business opining on national tv how laws or policy should be shaped. That's like getting 5 year olds to draft medical policy. 

[Ivanhoe]

2 hours ago, rmgill said:

I was at CNN when they had political shows that had balance. They had clear political commentary and it was 2 sided. See also Crossfire. 
 

Heck, in the late 80s/early 90s, American leftists were perturbed by CNN's tendency to present two sides to a story, and not merely present the DNC response to news stories. Back then, I couldn't watch any of the Big 3 news channels (ABC, CBS, NBC) but could watch CNN.

[Stuart Galbraith]

CNN has gone downhill. Bianca Nobilo has left for one thing.

[lucklucky]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/28/uproar-molly-magpie-confiscated-human-staffordshire-terrier/

Molly the magpie seized by animal welfare ... after bonding with pet dog

Tens of thousands of Australians lobby for bird to be returned to family that raised it from a chick

[lucklucky]

UK

Compare and contrast.

Moment Met Police officer tells Jewish woman that swastikas 'need to be taken into context

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13256743/Moment-Met-Police-confronted-Jewish-woman-officer-told-swastikas-arent-necessarily-anti-Semitic-banners-spotted-pro-Palestine-march-London.html

Moment army veteran is arrested 'for causing anxiety' after retweeting meme of swastika made out of Pride flags.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11066477/Veteran-arrested-causing-anxiety-retweeting-meme-swastika-Pride-flags.html

 

 

 

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

How about we just ban Swastika's like our German friends, and just be done with this bloody silliness?

[Tim Sielbeck]

59 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

How about we just ban Swastika's like our German friends, and just be done with this bloody silliness?

You do know that it started out as a religious symbol and is still used as such today? 

[TrustMe]

He's right, Hindu's use it in there religion. But for some reasons it's coloured pink.

[rmgill]

Buddhists too. I am skeptical that a largely muslim protest movement is going to have many of either type present. 

 

[Ivanhoe]

49 minutes ago, TrustMe said:

He's right, Hindu's use it in there religion. But for some reasons it's coloured pink.

Gay Hindu Nazis are the worst.

 

[R011]

50 minutes ago, TrustMe said:

He's right, Hindu's use it in there religion. But for some reasons it's coloured pink.

I rather suspect the pro-Hamas demonstrators were not using it as a Hindu symbol..

[seahawk]

On 3/23/2024 at 10:52 PM, NickM said:

Too much Ostie influence 

Patriotism is a crime in Germany.

[Stuart Galbraith]

17 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

You do know that it started out as a religious symbol and is still used as such today? 

Perfectly well. And the Confederate Flag is just a symbol of southern fraternity.