I literally just told you why: imperialism and settler-colonialism. Religion is not the reason, it’s the excuse, the justification rationalization.
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I literally just told you why: imperialism and settler-colonialism. Religion is not the reason, it’s the excuse, the justification rationalization.
If you waved a magic wand and made the whole world atheist, nothing would materially change, because this isn’t about religion, it’s about imperialism and settler-colonialism.
This really needs a “/s”. It’s vitally important to not leave open an antisemitic interpretation to Poe’s Law.
Apparently they failed three fact checks on mediabiasfactcheck.com
https://lemmy.ml/post/12705767/8913172
But muh Media Bias/Fact Check says it checks out!
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/contact/
Dave M. Van Zandt obtained a Communications Degree before pursuing a higher degree in the sciences. >Dave currently works full time in the health care industry. Dave has spent more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence.
Van Zandt is some hobbyist who was in the right place at the right time: the “post-truth” moment of Clinton’s loss to Trump and the string of Russiagate conspiracy theories and Kellyanne Conway’s alternative facts and the Cambridge Analytica hysteria.
The whole concept of the “left” or ”right“ “bias” being inversely correlated with factualness is garbage. These kinds of graphs, which try to convince us that centrism equals factualness, are garbage:
The core bias of corporate media is the bias of the capitalist class, but people like Van Zandt don’t seem to understand this.
The inner workings of corporate media were explained about forty years ago in Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent.
A five minute introduction: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
https://lemmy.ml/post/13566156/9605612
I said “these kinds of graphs,” of which there are many https://duckduckgo.com/?q=media+bias+chart&iax=images&ia=images
But you’ve sparked an idea for an interesting project: use MBFC’s API to create one of these graphs from t>heir own data. Doing a little googling, it seems that scripts and data dumps aren’t hard to come by.
I think armchair media analyst Dave M. Van Zandt is going on vibes. I don’t think he understands corporate & think tank media. Does he know who Walter Lippman or Edward Bernays were, or what the Council on Foreign Relations (“least biased” 🤡) is or made note of its prominent media members? Does he know about the Powell memorandum or the Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy?
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.I’ve seen The Grayzone debunk the New York Times’ lies many times, and yet:
Also, in what universe is the neoliberal, anti-labor NYT center-left? And if the Grayzone in the ultraviolet territory, where does that leave the explicitly Communist Monthly Review, outside of MBFC’s Overton window? Surprise, it’s to the right of it:
https://lemmy.ml/post/17665401/12094932
The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.
The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.
This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.
The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”
None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.
Thirty years of shrugging off promises, agreements, and red lines is how we got to 90 seconds to midnight.
To be fair, it’s easier said than done. Israel’s protector & enabler has over 900 overseas military bases; a global nuclear arsenal; one of the largest international trading footprints; and veto power at the UN Security Council, the World Bank, and the IMF.
Not according to the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, or the Trilateral Commission, that’s for sure.
https://lemmy.ml/post/17665401/12094932
I’m still doing no such thing, while you, by comparing this to the holocaust, are perpetuating the myth that all of the protesters and all of the rioters were innocent bystanders who were mowed down indiscriminately.
violent force against the protesters was justified if it did happen.
I said nothing of the sort.
violent protesters and their terrifying grocery bags…
You didn’t look at the photos of the beaten soldiers or their charred, hanged bodies. You didn’t read about the self-proclaimed desire for extreme violence by some of the protest leaders, nor of the CIA’s involvement.
States don’t just run themselves; the class that in is control drives the agenda.
Literally no one died in Tiananmen Square itself, the people who did die (outside of the square) were not “massacred,” and many of them were unarmed police and military. The whole event was not what we were told.
By being genocidal lying sacks of shit.
And Hezbollah is not a “terrorist group,” it’s an anti-imperialist, anti-settler-colonial Lebanese political party, and a paramilitary that liberated southern Lebanon from the Israeli state.
Serbia didn’t commit genocide, and the NATO bombing of Belgrade was a war crime (and, like the Iraq war, was based on lies), just as a bombing of Tel Aviv would be.
It’s not easy to tl;dr. But one way, without explaining any Marxist theory, is that the working class’ material conditions have been improving throughout the last several decades despite the creation of a capitalist class. People are less pissed off when their lives are improving.
China has been using this constrained capitalism; which leverages foreign capital, technology and knowledge; to leapfrog from an illiterate, agrarian, feudal stage.
In terms of theory, it goes all the way back to Marx and Engels. Here is a bevy of quotes.
since we’re talking about Chinese billionaires, clearly something hasn’t gone quite to plan!
I’m not sure that’s true, or if it did, only slightly. China Has Billionaires
I was really more interested in implying a comparison to America and how it should handle the same sort of problem under a capitalist framework
The New Deal and its neoliberal rollback shows that it can have some limited, temporary effect, but only to save capitalism from itself in a crisis, like the Great Depression.
Actually I think the CCP views them as a political threat.
Yes. When the CPC introduced a limited amount of capitalism, it did it with full knowledge of the threat it posed. That’s why it has—to paraphrase Grover Norquist—kept capitalism shrunk down to the size where it can drown it in the bathtub.
They probably already get enough since they technically jointly own businesses and can just take assets at any time.
The Chinese state controls its sovereign fiat money. It can print as much money as it wants to. It can simply buy private Chinese companies outright, and eventually will, because they created this limited capitalism as merely a means to an end: communism.
That is not the lesson. The difference between China and capitalist states is not simply that China taxes the rich more; it goes much deeper. The difference is that in China, the state reflects the will of the working class, whereas in capitalist states it reflects the will of the capitalist class. The Marxist Theory of the State: An Introduction
It never stood for the things it claimed to stand for in the first place*—going all the way back to We the People**—and the receipts keep piling up. Trump isn’t some exceptional case; it’s always been so. Today America stands for the international rules-based order, which is not what it says on the tin. What it is is neocolonialism.
*It did stand for manifest destiny, though. It still does, but it used to, too.
**The “we” was exclusive to white, land-owning males, a.k.a. the bourgeoisie. It certainly didn’t include native Americans, chattel slaves, or women.
No, that’s not the root problem, either. Monopoly capitalism is not just “human nature.”