• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    The administration is saying the justifications, the stenographers of empire are the ones uncritically reporting them.

    Do you really need me to spell it out?

    Now, U.S. officials have dropped their calls for a ceasefire, arguing that circumstances have changed. “We do support Israel launching these incursions to degrade Hezbollah’s infrastructure so ultimately we can get a diplomatic resolution,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told a press briefing earlier this week. The course change reflects conflicting U.S. goals - containing the ever-growing Middle East conflict while also severely weakening Iran-backed Hezbollah.

    The new approach is both practical and risky.

    We love a practical warmonger 🤩🤩🤩

    • fukhueson@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      The article is not justifying the war, and I won’t entertain unsourced speculation as though it is fact. It is not propaganda.

        • fukhueson@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 month ago

          Yea, like where I read it and it isn’t justifying the war.

          I’m bored now. Goodbye.

          Edit: reiterating goodbye.

          • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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            1 month ago

            So how does this new, different US strategy differ from what they’ve been doing this entire time? letting the atrocities play out has been their strategy, is it because they’ve officially given up on calling for a cease fire?

      • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Would you know propaganda if it walked up and bit you?

        Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

        But, listen, let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works: the president makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know—fiction.

        Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine