I agree the west is becoming less democratic and the quality of life in China greatly improved, but there is severe oppression in China and that you choose to mention the quality of life over the influence people have on their government says a lot about your loyalty to the Chinese rulers.

That’s mostly because the trustworthy news outlet from those countries don’t publish in English whereas the propaganda is. But you’re right people don’t think there is independent journalism in Russia and China. That is not so much an east/west axis but a capitalist democracy / Communist authoritarianism axis.

Makes most sense

While I sort of agree. I’m just gonna say, you ain’t gonna find anything mainstream western media that doesn’t have major ties to unethical corpos unless you basically force yourself to only use AP and the Guardian (and even then, pretty sure they still have dodgy ties, just it’s not as visible since no direct “ownership”.)

They are two examples of more believable / trustworthy western news outlets, I don’t think anyone in this thread is anywhere close to implying all western news is true or that all non-western news is false.

Concerning genocide, almost everybody on earth agrees the only sensible thing is to stop it; that’s why most pro-Israeli news act as if there is no genocide happening there. I think they are wrong, Israel is committing genocide.

I don’t think he likes being there, but probably does feel safer there then in a western country or a state allied to US.

Edward Snowden got asylum there, if you have value and fame they’ll treat you a lot better

The Guardian publishes articles critical of the genocide in Gaza, which is the only correct position to take on the issue. However they have served Zionist interests in the past and carried water for US warmongers.

You can be independent and still carry interests of Zionistd and US warmongers, both knowingly and unknowingly. You have every right to be skeptical because of previous publications and also every right to share that here, not trying to argue there, but there is no such things as always having the correct position. Every media outlet will at some point publish something questionable. My point being, you should never swallow news as a definite truth also when you’re trusting a certain source in general.

But this isn’t really evidence that they are.

So what you meant was: this isn’t enough evidence to change my mind. That is a very different statement. I think this doesn’t prove anything but it does support op’s previous claims Reddit boosts Ars Technica content.

This isn’t showing Reddit is shitty, it is showing it is used by it’s parent company to influence the media landscape. That is not just shitty, it is amoral and can be very dangerous when it comes to political pieces.

Tech companies are using media companies to shape the world to their liking, just like robber barrons and aristocrats used to.

“Trump always chickens out — we’re just bringing the tacos to match,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement on the food truck’s message.

Sans paywall: https://archive.is/HUROk

Is your life full of problems? Call life coach Sauntek Harris now and he’ll get it fixed straight away! /s

Apparently these murders happened between 2002 and 2009 so maybe he just felt like doing something else for a change, leave the murdering behind him and became a life coach instead. I guess neither of those require a degree.

Do you know if you upload something to instance a, does it get copied to instance b like text or would it just link to the original upload?

Agree, this is totally bonkers and a year ago it would be too crazy to possible be from the onion but there hasn’t really been a grey area where this could’ve been because the shock was so big. We all know this is just regular American politics nowadays and this isn’t a community about messed up politics.

On my phone screen which is a low end Samsung it doesn’t look potato. Guess you’re just out of luck if you have some high res screen or a retina iPhone or smth

You can embed an image by writing ![optional alt text](img url), make sure the url actually leads to the image and end with something like .jpg .png or .webp

This exactly. 90% of the content should be in a community called notnormalpolitcs or funnythingsamericanpoliticiansdonowadays

Yes obv I know this is not the union, didn’t really make that clear '-.- and republicans do bonkers shit, also obvious but I liked this community a lot better before Trump became president again.

Satire written in a way you for a moment doubt if it’s true or not. Lately it’s a wave of ‘Trump or some republican senator did something lame or terrible’ and ‘Trump voter had his face eaten by leopards’. Normal would be a post like this once or twice a day, I get the sentiment but it’s just too much and the bar is getting lower and lower if you ask me.

This community is basically only political posts these days. I will comment and downvote until this community turns back to normal.

As a non-native speaker I had to think a moment before I understood the headline, because it’s so utterly bonkers I wondered if I missed a double meaning or something lol