President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to rebrand the Pentagon as the “Department of War,” telling reporters in the Oval Office it was a more “appropriate” name given the state of the world.
It’s more honest, and a retvrn to its original name. Time to drop the pretense.
Because this is what press under authoritarianism is like. Wait until they cut off broadcasting licenses and start censoring access to the internet. Srsly look at Russia, China, etc. we know what they will do if we allow it. So plan for the worst (pirate radio!) and fight to hold the line.
I was wondering if libs know that they can speak directly to people from Russia and China and ask them about their country, what things are actually like, why are they different than the US, etc. They’re not hard to find these countries have huge populatios. But then I also realized it wouldn’t matter.
Blacks and Browns are too savage to consider having dialogue with
It always irks me when people pontificate endlessly about how bad China is for Africa, entirely forgetting that’s a relationship different African nations CHOSE for themselves, unlike the monstrous bombings and government interventions by US or French governments without the consent of the peoples of those nations. I always try and steer the conversation back to that if they respect people from African nations as people, then those people have made this choice themselves; we don’t want others doing the thinking for us, and equally they don’t want others doing the thinking for them either.
Burkina Faso is modernizing incredibly rapidly with the help of China. Also you need to inform them that the west overthrows or assassinates African leaders that don’t sell out their people to western corporations. China does not.
Looking back at my post my choice of words may indicate I think China is bad for Africa; it wasn’t the intent; I absolutely recognize how good China’s relationship with different nations has been. I’m reminded of something a lady in Zambia once said that the VP once went over there, landing in an airport built by China, driven on roads built by China, to give a speech in a venue built by China, about why Africa shouldn’t work with China.
Cooperating with America or really any Western country is just waiting for the knife to stab you in the back; China is not a risky partner in the slightest, and on the contrary has been a phenomenal partner. I recall something I once read about railroads built in Africa; the railroads built by European powers go straight to ports (for wealth extraction), while railroads built in Africa are designed to benefit the nations in Africa.
They can’t, they’re all bots except for the ones on Reddit threads with thousands of upvotes saying “I hate my country and I think the US should nuke and invade us and the State Department is telling the entire truth”
I don’t see what’s wrong with that headline. It seems like a pretty straightforward telling of the facts. Isn’t that what a headline is supposed to be? Is it a lie or something I don’t get? It doesn’t seem to be implying anything good or bad about the name change, so I don’t get the problem.
In all seriousness - I don’t know what Hayes expected. It’s not as if the NYT and other American media outlets became garbage yesterday. The media has published one pro-Trump article after another for years. A huge number of powerful people in the media loves Trump.
Liberals don’t want evenhanded. They badly want the Times to be theirs and the headline to be a pontification of liberal belief with praise of the shining City on Hill crap. I know that’s impossible. There’s no space for that in a headline! But Trump has made the libs insane.
I don’t even know what’s in the article. It might even have tepid criticism.
BREAKING NEWS: In an unprecedented move Trump renames DoD to Department of War
I wonder if that would have mollified the libs. My hunch is mostly - maybe? They’d fixate on the exact wording but Hayes would have only gotten - I dunno - ~20% as many likes. In any case - it’s surreal to hear the libs whining and moaning about this as if it was equivalent to Trump’s extra-judicial executions of 11 people on the open ocean that was not only illegal but in addition he was too fucking lazy to create even a laughable legal justification before he did it. He just did it. And that seems pretty ominous.
Libs are so worked up about this name change.
A Chris Hayes post where he’s troubled by a NYT headline - https://bsky.app/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3ly2d2fyxik2w
A reply
Lol. What are we a bunch of Asians.jpg
I was wondering if libs know that they can speak directly to people from Russia and China and ask them about their country, what things are actually like, why are they different than the US, etc. They’re not hard to find these countries have huge populatios. But then I also realized it wouldn’t matter.
Average opinion is the Asians are too brainwashed and the Blacks and Browns are too savage to consider having dialogue with.
It always irks me when people pontificate endlessly about how bad China is for Africa, entirely forgetting that’s a relationship different African nations CHOSE for themselves, unlike the monstrous bombings and government interventions by US or French governments without the consent of the peoples of those nations. I always try and steer the conversation back to that if they respect people from African nations as people, then those people have made this choice themselves; we don’t want others doing the thinking for us, and equally they don’t want others doing the thinking for them either.
get a load of this loony leftie, thinking black people have agency 😂
Burkina Faso is modernizing incredibly rapidly with the help of China. Also you need to inform them that the west overthrows or assassinates African leaders that don’t sell out their people to western corporations. China does not.
Looking back at my post my choice of words may indicate I think China is bad for Africa; it wasn’t the intent; I absolutely recognize how good China’s relationship with different nations has been. I’m reminded of something a lady in Zambia once said that the VP once went over there, landing in an airport built by China, driven on roads built by China, to give a speech in a venue built by China, about why Africa shouldn’t work with China.
Cooperating with America or really any Western country is just waiting for the knife to stab you in the back; China is not a risky partner in the slightest, and on the contrary has been a phenomenal partner. I recall something I once read about railroads built in Africa; the railroads built by European powers go straight to ports (for wealth extraction), while railroads built in Africa are designed to benefit the nations in Africa.
Hey their paycheck depends on that ignorance.
The average white person doesn’t think of Russians or Chinese people as real, actually existing people, they are merely a concept to them.
They can’t, they’re all bots except for the ones on Reddit threads with thousands of upvotes saying “I hate my country and I think the US should nuke and invade us and the State Department is telling the entire truth”
What does he have against the headline exactly?
I don’t see what’s wrong with that headline. It seems like a pretty straightforward telling of the facts. Isn’t that what a headline is supposed to be? Is it a lie or something I don’t get? It doesn’t seem to be implying anything good or bad about the name change, so I don’t get the problem.
what is the characterization in the headline
That is the headline.
Who’s on first?
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In all seriousness - I don’t know what Hayes expected. It’s not as if the NYT and other American media outlets became garbage yesterday. The media has published one pro-Trump article after another for years. A huge number of powerful people in the media loves Trump.
no i just mean how else are they supposed to say it? like i can’t imagine a more neutral or evenhanded way to put it
Liberals don’t want evenhanded. They badly want the Times to be theirs and the headline to be a pontification of liberal belief with praise of the shining City on Hill crap. I know that’s impossible. There’s no space for that in a headline! But Trump has made the libs insane.
I don’t even know what’s in the article. It might even have tepid criticism.
oh i get it now. they can’t stand reading one sentence that isn’t about the dang cheeto in the white house. well put comrade
If the NYT wanted to they could’ve written…
I wonder if that would have mollified the libs. My hunch is mostly - maybe? They’d fixate on the exact wording but Hayes would have only gotten - I dunno - ~20% as many likes. In any case - it’s surreal to hear the libs whining and moaning about this as if it was equivalent to Trump’s extra-judicial executions of 11 people on the open ocean that was not only illegal but in addition he was too fucking lazy to create even a laughable legal justification before he did it. He just did it. And that seems pretty ominous.
This is my question. I can’t think of how else to express that headline. It’s pretty straightforward.
Is the idea that the headline should say something about how this is bad?
Related - https://hexbear.net/comment/6471444
Please god, create a big beautiful firewall to keep the americans in. Sorry to all, I’ll miss some of you.