I think y’all are underestimating Pedro Pascal’s woman fanbase.

Yeah, the story of an attractive, emotionally sensitive guy raising a child alone in a harsh world is like marketing poison to women. /s

How does this cycle end? No idea really […]

October 24th, 1929 sound familiar?

I’ve always worked with people that have literal seizures if they haven’t already heard a song at least seventeen thousand times before. This might cause severe cerebral hemorraging.

A difference in political messaging, yes. In describing a reality, no.

The evangelical christians running the US are white supremacist fascists pushings for theocracy.

But even before that, Catholic Church was considered the Whore of Babylon by them; and Catholics were on the KKK terrorism tour along with Black and Jewish (and, I imagine, Black Jewish) people.

Mods watching this one closely for species-level slurs.

This is kind of a weird conversation to be having in English in a room of probably 50% non-native English speakers.

Are we shaming them? I’m just acknowledging they can’t even conceive of an alternate future, which I think what “car-brained” is getting at.

But it’s a bit like the copper tops in the Matrix–they’ll always potentially be your enemy, through no fault of their own. For instance, these car brained people you are so eager to have sympathy for will show up in droves to complain about anything that would even theoretically lengthen their car commute by even a microsecond.

The article text doesn’t mention Israel as an actor at all–only a victim.

Are we having a miscommunication of some kind? Are we reading the same article? Are you AI? Disregard this comment.

A distinction without a difference.

A mouse raised in a cage will be cage-brained.

Too many USAians can’t imagine life without driving a car, the same way that mouse can’t imagine a forest.

I’m honestly not sure what you’re saying. The article is doing exactly what you say it isn’t doing–given the state-based definition of “terrorist,” and I’m not assuming the reader personally knows anything.

I also don’t see that you are defending the omission of Israel’s invasion.

Beware of choosing arbitrary distinctions that support what you already believe. Here, I see people who support Israel make a distinction between state and non-state actors because it cloaks state violence and decontextualizes (and implicitly condemns as unjustified) non-state violence, while at the same time giving the reader LESS information and a skewed view–the opposite of the goal of true journalism.

For instance, I saw a great video on music theory and how some white supremacists in the West decided that contrapuntal harmony (or some shit) was the PINNACLE of intelligence. Why? Is it just a coincidence that Western Classical music does very well relative to other music in the world? Rhythmically, Indian music mops the floor with Bach. Obviously, a chauvinist Indian would pick whatever Indian music does uniquely well as the pinnacle of musical evolution.

Not the best example. Right-wing gun nuts are cop-adjacent if not cops themselves. Let’s see how an amed BLM or antifa or anti-ICE rally goes.

Missing my point entirely. Good day.

I´m talking about the difference between journalism and propaganda; you don´t think it’s a little weird to come away from an article like this knowing Hezabollah is a terrorist organization according to Germany, the US, and several Sunni Arab states, but not that their country is currently being invaded with tanks?

It is kind of amusing how, “You guys are knee jerking your reactions instead of looking at the issue carefully” gets the knee jerk upvotes here.

If your goal is informing your readers, the fact that Israel is invading Lebannon is easily as important as a comically detailed explanation of how terroristy Hezbollah is.

If your goal is sanctioning violence done by state actors–a common feature of corporate media–you´d do what they did here.

The footage was published about a week ago by Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based pro-Iranian militia, which Germany, the US and several Sunni Arab states have classified as a terrorist organization.

And where’s the parenthetical comma for Israel?

Israel, the arpartheid Jewish ethnostate, has been globally condemned for its violation of human rights and massive bombings with civilian casualties, is currently invading Lebannon in an effort to expand its territory.

Can we talk about the Transcript feature? How does that happen? As a frequent mobile user subjected to people 1920x1080 full screen text grabs, I greatly appreciate it.

I’m wondering if we just have a gun registration program and a ban on inheriting guns, so nobody would have to give up their own guns, just their dead parents’ guns.