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Jordan Lund at it again (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context:

The article in question was well sourced, factually accurate, and written by a well-renowned author and journalist whose work appears elsewhere too, regardless of which outlet published it.

Nonetheless, Jordan Lund is once again blindly trusting a pro-zionist conservative outlet masquerading as a bias and fact checker that nothing from anywhere that criticizes the fascist apartheid regime can be reliable 🤦

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Plane hit the WTC?

Invaded Iraq?

What the fuck are you talking about? No one is saying they don't "source" their articles. The problem is they post things like:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/textbook-politics-new-geography-book-and-atlas-recognize-russias-claim-to-crimea/210441/

Although the United Nations and many Western governments continue to object to Russia’s claims over Crimea

After Ukraine distanced itself economically and politically from Russia on the heels of the Euromaidan protests of 2013, the residents of the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine overwhelmingly voted to break away from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Russia announced the annexation of the region soon after, but the move has not been recognized by Ukraine or its NATO allies, leading to months of tense, sometimes violent conflict.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/western-media-ignore-critical-information-snipers-killed-euromaidan-protesters-ukraine/186661/

Instead of keeping its end of the bargain, the Ukrainian mainstream opposition executed a coup through the use of violence by organized ultra-nationalist gangs, which some analysts have compared to stay-behinds or secretive militias that were created by NATO during the Cold War.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/syria-ghouta-claim-saudi-supplied-rebels-chemical-attack/168135/

And so on

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ah yes how dare somebody not follow our jingoist propaganda /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

lol

Just to do my due diligence: An easy hallmark of propaganda is that it keeps changing. Russia had every right to invade Crimea, because Crimea is Russia. Russia is not invading Crimea, those soldiers going over the border are nothing to do with us. The problem in Crimea is “tense, sometimes violent conflict” after Russia “announced the annexation.” Fast forward to 2022, and Russia is definitely not going to invade the rest of Ukraine. All these Western intelligence reports that say we’re going to invade are just Russophobia. We’re not even invading, we’re just trying to “denazify” Ukraine and remove this illegitimate government to help the Ukrainians. Most Ukrainians support the invasion. Anyway, it’s all the West’s fault we invaded, because NATO provoked us. We definitely want peace, this whole situation “just happened” somehow, and now any agreement that involves enforcement of peace with enough teeth that we can’t unilaterally ignore it sends us into a rage and means we stop negotiating.

And yes, of course this applies also to Western propaganda. You can see the same sort of pattern sometimes in what they say about Israel for example. The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack. But the Russian POV about Ukraine or Syria is nothing but jingoistic poppycock. It deserves no respect.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Because we forget certain things and they go the way of the memory hole doesn't make them untrue. It's a mess there, and my country also stirred that up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yes, that makes perfect sense. I see your point now. Totally.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago

Emotional? Lol