I feel like I could ask any random guy on the street how many American soldiers have died so far, and they’d tell me 7, but if I asked them how many little girls died when they bombed that school, they’d be like “fake news, we’d never bomb a school.”
Sadly I think you are right.
To be fair, some if might be fake news. Iran has propaganda too.
Don’t take this in any way to be pro US or IL.
Feel the same way about people wringing their hands over dead US soldiers, as though they’re the only people who matter.
A Thai shipping frigate just got hit in the Straight of Hormuz, and I have seen absolutely nobody on national news raise the question of whether any of the crew were injured or killed. Similarly, Israel and the UAE have been incredibly close-mouthed about civilian deaths from Iranian attacks into civilian areas, because they consider it a public embarrassment. Nobody seems to want to talk about the “collateral damage”.
And then there’s the death toll in Iran itself. I was getting ear-blasted with “Iranian Government Murders 10,000! 20,000! 30,000! people!” for weeks. Suddenly, Iranian deaths don’t matter, unless they’re high ranking politicians or military figures.
This reeks of the same coverage we got out of Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and Ethiopia. National news is entirely contained within jingoistic nationalist terms. We’re covering (and increasingly gambling) on the outcome like its a basketball game.
Vile.
What is a Thai shipping frigate?
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And this is the best case scenario. It’s either this or they literally think they’re meaningless collateral in the West’s noble mission to save the world.
NYT literally just said that Iranians like to be bombed
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media It should be a must-read for every high schooler but the government absolutely would never allow that.
Just a reminder: Noam Chomsky was Epstein’s friend.
Also afaik most of the book was written by Edward S. Herman, who nobody remembers because he wasn’t a sellout and didn’t make a career as the face of controlled opposition.
indeed, which is why i prefer to recommend Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti.
Also Chomsky was an establishment scholar, his early rise was propped up by military funds and the such meanwhile Parenti stood up by his principles and was never allowed in academia.
Ok but he was right about powerful people controlling the media.
yea, like 90% of the criticisms I as an american hear towards this war is that we “aren’t doing it right.” and that “when we bombed Iraq we did it right.” just that we aren’t massacring people correctly, no problem with the massacring itself. of course, these same people absolutely would not accept that all this bloodshed is literally just to keep up with the hyper inflated fuel economy of the light truck tanks that litter our shitty fucking roads. which is an impossible task on it’s own btw even if the US got oil out of this the trucks will simply get bigger, and their fuel economy will simply get worse unless fundamental change happens.
The comic hurts because it’s uncomfortably accurate.
The news is reporting on the dead children? That’s news to me.
Yes? They literally are?
People like that don’t let a little thing like reality get in the way of their performative cynicism.
Dang. This is cold hearted. I live close to work I suppose.
these comments are something…
i was hoping to get back into gig work soon, but without gasoline i guess i’m just gonna die in a ditch
Rick doesn’t buy gas. Hell. Even Morty doesn’t.
I hope my fellow countrymen suffer immensely. I want us to be dragged into downright suicide inducing economic despair.
I like you. Scotch (Aberlour 16, Glenfarclas 25, private bottling of Royal Brackla) for you if you’re in Montreal.
Even NPR was leading off with what kind of strikes cause what kind of effect at the gas station
I’m thankful I live in a country where I have the same issues only
Perspective on the drawing hurts my brain
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You are literally doing the meme, plus even some additional racism
