the US Media fails to act critically, but that action is not politically based, it’s corporate based
Ohhhhh, watch your step there bud, you might accidently step in some actual political theory there
If the story were “US Politicians lie about Gaza”, that’s fine, that’s talking about the actions of the US Political sphere.
This story is “US Media lies about Gaza” which is the failure of the US Media
LMAO those are the actual two parts of this exact story.
by repeating US official statements as fact
The headline isnt “US media reported the time from clocks later discovered to be broken”, it’s “US media reports innocence of serial killer after his mom tells them that he’s totally innocent”
The story is about US Media failing to accurately cover Israel’s attack on a hospital
by failing to scrutinize official accounting by US officials
You keep leaving that pretty crucial piece out there kid. The larger story is about how US media is in bed with US state department interests - a relationship with an actual-fucking-textbook term: manufacturing consent
And the reason why it’s important to continue making the problem known here is tbe same reason it was important for activists to show up to Harris/Biden rallies in 2023 protesting US complicity on Gaza. It’s the reason the tide has turned so hard that you have to sit here and pretend like there’s some procedural reason to cut Israel out of the US political conversation instead of just ignoring it entirely.
God save you and the DNC for 2028, because noone else will.
We certainly are intervening, though. If we “weren’t intervening” in Gaza in the same way we “aren’t intervening” in Ukraine, this topic of conversation would be a lot less contentious.
Let’s not split hairs here, Jordan. They’re reporting on how US media reports on official White House accounting of international affairs, not the affairs themselves. US political actors (both US media and actual White House officials) are the actual subjects of this story, not Israel.
You can complain all you want about the white house being pestered to give their accounting of events in Gaza at all, but it becomes US politics the moment they’re actively engaging in the discussion and the US media is centering them in their coverage. It’s certainly unflattering - i sympathize with why you might be frustrated by the topic, especially after how 2024 went and especially as we prepare for a 2028 campaign.
Israel and Gaza are losing topics for democrats - that much is abundantly clear.
In the end though, the real problem is, there is no such thing as “International Law”. It’s mealy mouthed guideline at best.
Especially when the only people capable of intervening are determined to do anything but mouth meaningless platitudes, such as “Israel has a right to defend itself”, and “Israel has a right to exist”
Lmao, coverage of what, Jordan? Whose statements are they reporting on?
Certainly not White House officials, that would be hard to claim irrelevant to US politics
Everyone up in arms over this clearly just didnt grow up with ren and stimpy cartoons.
This is beautiful
On the other hand, that comm is like a spam folder for political bullshit. It’s all about “Chuck Schumer SLAMS Trump” or “What AOC Did At The Democrat Dinner Will Shock You!”
No disagreement that it’s a trash community with trash content, but it might be worth asking if the community is shit because the moderator is making it shit
“Israel has a right to exist” and “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
A huge part of the problem is that both of those statements lack any specificity - we can’t even have the conversation about whether any given state has some abstract ‘right’ to exist of defend itself if we don’t really have an agreed definition of what ‘Israel’ or a ‘state’ is, what ‘existence’ encompasses, and what limits to the definition of ‘defense’ we are operating under. Are we talking about Israel the geographic region, or the Jewish diaspora? Are we talking about a democratic state with religious and ethnic equality, or an apartheid two-class system of oppression?
And that lack of specificity is almost the entire strategy of the democratic establishment and their position on the topic, and why the DNC consultant class and (apparently) smalltime internet forum moderators would rather dismiss all attempts of having that discussion
Those are direct quotes from the second article listed that were removed (and still appear to be removed) in the OP for the stated “”“not us politics”“” reason, you unwashed bunghole.
Jesus fuck you’re dense.
“A U.S. official with knowledge of American intelligence says Hamas has a command node under the Al-Shifa hospital…”
“Like CNN, NBC News and ABC News similarly quoted White House officials claiming that Hamas had infiltrated hospitals, including Al-Shifa.”
“Western establishment media’s reliance on official assertions helped normalize what should have been unthinkable.”
The irony of your editorializing in your moderation decisions would be far more entertaining to me if the reasoning for it weren’t so fucking transparent.
- US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza*
That second one is quite literally about US political news coverage. It’s in the fucking headline jackass.
It is when it’s in the context of US coverage and commentary by political actors (not just limited to politicians, but activists, journalists, unions, and corporations (since at least Citizens United)
“It’s not a US political issue if democratic politicians continue avoiding talking about it” is quite the take lmao
Idk, seems like an article discussing US media coverage of a US political issue is pretty definitionally about US politics
To say that Israel and Gaza arent predominant political issues in US politics is just straight up denial
It is pretty funny just how generalized western feelings toward Iran are.
Libs in the comments don’t know if this meme is accurate or not, but they know for certain that it doesn’t align with their impression of Iran from the decades of western propaganda.
I can at least appreciate this as a shitpost
I find myself wondering just how complicated TVS could actually be before it’s no longer possible to hijack the display signal that’s fed to the display
Unlike with cars, TVS seem simple enough that a sufficiently motivated novice could modify a cheap TV to circumvent these bullshit features. If they ever started requiring internet connections to start or use these, i think enough people would be bothered by it that there would probably be a secondary market of modified hardware
As with most enshitifications, the question will ultimately be one of complacency of the average consumer.
People here upset by this generalization unironically enjoying a meme yesterday referring to ‘russian/israeli/Iranian shills’
I thought i was on c/shitposting for a second