• Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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    1. Washington Post is an american propaganda outlet when it comes to foreign policy articles. You might as well be linking VOA or RT.
    2. That whole mutiny is fishy AF. There were rumours Prigozhin was betrayed by his deputy and informed the Kremlin. The CIA said they knew a week in advance. There was only a minor skirmish between a jet and a convoy on the way to Moscow where 12 soldiers died.

    I don’t understand what happened there or how the guy who tried to overthrow the government is still walking free. I’ve never heard of this in history before. The whole thing smells.

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      It is silly to compare Voice of America (an excellent journalistic institution with a great reputation), to the Washington Post (overall pretty good), to Russia Times (literal state propaganda). These are all very different sources and painting them with the same brush is just factually incorrect.

      Here’s some research for you:

      https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-post/

      https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rt-news/

      https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/voice-of-america/

      As for your second point, Trump is still walking free and he tried to overthrow the government. These things apparently do happen.

      • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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        You don’t think critically about mediabiasfactcheck?

        Voice of America was created to promote American propaganda, it’s literally the US propaganda outlet. You’re a shill.

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          I apparently think about it more critically than you do. All journalism is not propaganda; some is good in fact, and we can determine which is good and which is bad. And I at least have sources, whereas you have, uh… brain damage I guess?

          Also that’s a laughable and total misunderstanding of Voice of America’s history, mission, and goals. It has a reputation basically everywhere as being as close to objective and reliable reporting as you can get outside the BBC. I guess you’re just assuming it’s bad based on its name, which is not great on the critical thinking front!

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            and reliable reporting as you can get outside the BBC

            “Russian state owned media bad. British state owned media good.”

            I guess you’re just assuming it’s bad based on its name

            No, we know it’s bad because it’s literally run by the US government.

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          His supporters forced their way into the Capitol Building in order to keep him in office by throwing out the election results.

          If that ain’t an attempted coup, then what is?

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            Can you point out where I said it wasn’t? I’m just saying the severity of what happened in Russia is completely incomparable to what happened in the US. You’re talking about a fully armed military with sophisticated mechanized weapons and armor versus some Facebook rednecks with Trump flags.