wonderingwanderer

Exactly, and that’s what the journalism should focus on. It detracts from the message when they give it a misleading spin. It’s already bad enough without the distortion of facts. That’s the point I’m trying to make.

From what he actually said, it sounds like talks about a potential decision will begin then. That’s not at all what a deadline is.

The way it was reported made it sound like a decision was already made, and actions would be taken by then. That’s not at all what he said though.

There’s already plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize him, so I can’t stand when journalists distort things to make them seem even worse. It gives too much credence to the people defending him by framing all criticism as media spin.

Things are already bad enough without reactionary sensationalism, so just focus on the facts without compromising journalistic integrity. Otherwise it’s just disinformation, which doesn’t help anyone. We’re supposed to be better than this.

He added: “We need Greenland from a national security situation. It’s so strategic.”

The US already has military bases on Greenland in accordance with diplomatic agreements. This isn’t about national security or defense strategy. If it were, there would be diplomatic ways to increase US military presence. This risks losing the diplomatic agreements which allow the US to maintain a military presence there. It won’t be very strategic if US forces get banished from the realm.

This isn’t about national defense. It’s about natural resources. Trump wants to exploit Greenland for its rare minerals the same way he wants to exploit Venezuela for its crude oil.

It’s so transparent.

Apparently he thinks one month is ten days…

But yeah, calling that a deadline is kinda clickbaity.

Don’t worry, you’re protected by France’s nuclear umbrella

That’s what I mean, Chevron are the vultures in this case. They didn’t chop the head off, but they’re here for the blood…

A lot of them are self-proclaimed leftists who have no practical sense of realpolitik, and are so focused on their purity tests that they’ll never put forward a viable candidate.

A lot of them bought into the tiktok propaganda that Biden and Harris were responsible for Gaza, while ignoring how much worse it would get under trump. They simply (and rabidly) accused anyone who supported the Democrats of being complicit in genocide.

This time there’s not an incumbent democrat, so hopefully the same people will blame the current administration and vote accordingly. That is, if the entire hype wasn’t socially engineered by the US’s adversaries to get trump elected so he could weaken the country…

A robust Democratic primary will also help reduce boycott voters, although some will likely always complain that the nominee isn’t perfect enough for their liking. That can’t be helped.

But at least some of the fence-sitting centrists will come out in force against trump, since it’s so obvious how shitty everything is.

So I think there’s still hope. As long as states maintain control of their own elections and keep them free and fair…

Vultures…

Dictators around the world are getting too comfortable. They’re seeing too many examples of other dictators getting away with war crimes, illegal invasions, and other atrocities.

Putin emboldened Netanyahu, Netanyahu emboldened trump, and I don’t even want to think about who’s going to feel emboldened by trump.

Rules based order, multilateralism, and international law seem to be crumbling with no enforcement. Arguably the greatest achievements of the twentieth century, disappearing like vapor…

Not really, although they want you to believe that. In reality, over a third of registered voters abstained from voting in 2024.

More people didn’t vote than voted for either candidate.

Is this why people like Elon Musk are crying about how the EU supposedly isn’t giving them enough “freedom” online?

The EU should confiscate every US-owned company’s data servers and digital infrastructure located on EU soil, just like the US did to tiktok.

And I say this as a USian…

I didn’t know all that, thanks for the explanation

That’s true, and I was hoping everyone would conveniently ignore that fact. But most of the Muslims hated by western bigots are from Arab-majority nations, and Benjamin Netanyahu certainly hates enough Arab people to be called anti-semitic nonetheless.

A lot of americans don’t even realize there are Arab Christians…

That was a lot longer than five years ago, before I was even alive. I’m talking about the major protest movement that swept Iran in 2021 if I remember correctly…

You’re right though, US meddling started the whole catastrophe that destabilized Iran. It’s really sad to think about…

How much does instance really matter? I’m new to lemmy but so far it seems like I can view content from any instance just as easily as the one my account is made on.

Also, fuck tankies

I was cheering for the “New Iran” movement about 5 years ago, and I’ll cheer for these protesters today.

The Iranian people deserve self-determination, freedom from an oppressive government, and the sovereignty to elect their own officials in a new form of government. The world will be a better place when they have it.

Let Iran become the cultural hub that it once was.

Mamdani has expressed support for the Jewish population of NYC.

The only thing he did here that Israel is criticizing him for, is reaffirming the distinction between Jewish identity and the state of Israel. The definition he scrapped conflated the two; it was a bad-faith definition aimed at obfuscation.

It’s entirely possible to validly criticize the actions of a nation’s government without promoting hatred of its people; the fact of Israel being an ethnostate doesn’t change that.

It’s also harmful to conflate Jewish identity with Israeli politics, because there are many Jewish people who don’t support the actions of the far-right, ultra-orthodox government of the state of Israel. Conflating them results in the dispersal of blame for Israel’s actions across all Jewish people everywhere, and that is anti-semitic.

Also, Arabic is a semitic language, so doesn’t that make islamophobia a form of anti-semitism? That would mean Benjamin Netanyahu is the biggest anti-semite alive today. Just food for thought…

If only the POTUS would wait to hear from his intelligence officials before making public comments based on the word of an evil, lying, psychopathic dictator…

Maybe he means harmful to the world’s rainforests?

I doubt it, but maybe…

I see. At least they weren’t firing live rounds into the air. That would be dangerous…