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      8 months ago

      Most corporate media aren’t the sister organizations of Hamas.

      but they take money from people just as shitty, like bayer and lockheed and the pentagon. there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

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        8 months ago

        What specific US based leftist media are you accusing of taking money from weapons manufacturing?

        I have been specific in my accusations against a media company, it is only right that you should as well.

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          8 months ago

          What specific US based leftist media are you accusing

          none, but there is plenty of us corporate and state sponsored propaganda posted in these communities and i don’t see accusations of shilling for the pentagon and cia being thrown around like the accusations of shilling for putin/trump

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            8 months ago

            If you can name a single account of a supposed leftist who is filling their day by posting state propaganda or pro-weapons manufacturing sources to leftist communities, than I will happily consider this to have merit.

            From my perspective it seems like you are excusing authoritarian behavior under the guise that leftists do it for others and thus are obligated to do so for Hamas.

            I think until you name and shame we can probably dismiss this specific point.

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              8 months ago

              From my perspective it seems like you are excusing authoritarian behavior under the guise that leftists do it for others and thus are obligated to do so for Hamas.

              i never suggested any obligation. i’m saying that it’s unreasonable to disqualify factual reporting on the basis that you don’t like the people that funded it. object to the framing, or even to the actors themselves, but the reporting of facts is done by all kinds of actors, and it’s up to readers to understand biases in even factual reporting and come to their own conclusions.

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              8 months ago

              how hard is this?

              new york times

              washington post

              given how ubiquitos links to these war-hawking publications are, your objection to al jazeera can’t be motivated by the fact that tehy are f unded by bad people. it must be something else.