Yes, it does suck. Problem is human society. “The right” represents corporate interest, and the left should represent the people’s interests, but too often the left just represents an extractive clientislist state. Whatever you call them, systems reward themselves. It’s why I’m pessimistic about government.

But the thing is all the assholes thinking they’re so smart because they’d never vote for a right-candidate and that everyone in those countries are so stupid for voting for right candidates, all the people downvoting my comment, are just an example of the globality of stupidity.

So it’s not looking good for the human race.

Case in point: your comment.

I’m on the left, but international internet conversations are always like this because people think “left = good” and “right = bad”, regardless of whether or not a country is heading into hyperinflation to sustain leftist policy.

People in the United States, suffering under decades of corporate centrism, have no reference point for leftist economic policies failing, just FDR’s programs which were pretty awesome all around.

Weird considering we haven’t declared “war” since 1942.

They don’t even want us to have a post office, you think they’re going to let us get rid of way to siphon off a solid percentage of every transaction?

Most people only know about Puerto Rican day from the episode of Seinfeld that aired exactly once before being pulled for desecrating the island’s flag.

I think y’all are underestimating Pedro Pascal’s woman fanbase.

Yeah, the story of an attractive, emotionally sensitive guy raising a child alone in a harsh world is like marketing poison to women. /s

How does this cycle end? No idea really […]

October 24th, 1929 sound familiar?

The article text doesn’t mention Israel as an actor at all–only a victim.

Are we having a miscommunication of some kind? Are we reading the same article? Are you AI? Disregard this comment.

I’m honestly not sure what you’re saying. The article is doing exactly what you say it isn’t doing–given the state-based definition of “terrorist,” and I’m not assuming the reader personally knows anything.

I also don’t see that you are defending the omission of Israel’s invasion.

Beware of choosing arbitrary distinctions that support what you already believe. Here, I see people who support Israel make a distinction between state and non-state actors because it cloaks state violence and decontextualizes (and implicitly condemns as unjustified) non-state violence, while at the same time giving the reader LESS information and a skewed view–the opposite of the goal of true journalism.

For instance, I saw a great video on music theory and how some white supremacists in the West decided that contrapuntal harmony (or some shit) was the PINNACLE of intelligence. Why? Is it just a coincidence that Western Classical music does very well relative to other music in the world? Rhythmically, Indian music mops the floor with Bach. Obviously, a chauvinist Indian would pick whatever Indian music does uniquely well as the pinnacle of musical evolution.

Missing my point entirely. Good day.

I´m talking about the difference between journalism and propaganda; you don´t think it’s a little weird to come away from an article like this knowing Hezabollah is a terrorist organization according to Germany, the US, and several Sunni Arab states, but not that their country is currently being invaded with tanks?

If your goal is informing your readers, the fact that Israel is invading Lebannon is easily as important as a comically detailed explanation of how terroristy Hezbollah is.

If your goal is sanctioning violence done by state actors–a common feature of corporate media–you´d do what they did here.

The footage was published about a week ago by Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based pro-Iranian militia, which Germany, the US and several Sunni Arab states have classified as a terrorist organization.

And where’s the parenthetical comma for Israel?

Israel, the arpartheid Jewish ethnostate, has been globally condemned for its violation of human rights and massive bombings with civilian casualties, is currently invading Lebannon in an effort to expand its territory.