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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 11 hours ago

"Translation, we can fight an 8-day war, and then we would have to go nuclear," the former Pentagon adviser argued in an X post.

Oh my God, that's the plan.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

Hezbollah supposedly had a stockpile of 100.000 missiles and that was a massive dud.

[-] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

The US could run out of missiles in next few hours. It won't, but it could if it wanted to. What a stupid metric to try to define countable objects.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Good.

I hope we do. That's the only thing that will slow down the war machine.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Iranian propaganda is not the best source for this.

It may very well be true, this is not the org to believe on it.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

Better trustworthy sources like the BBC, WaPo and NYT.

/s

[-] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

🙄 Everything not sanctioned by the empires media tendrils gets labeled "propaganda"

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

No, garbage news sites like this get tagged as propaganda.

[-] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

Its clear friend, you have closed your mind to anything the empire deems as bad. I do hope that you can find your way

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I have closed my mind to Iranian, Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian and Israeli state propaganda sources, as everyone should.

It's a bogus news organization, if you can't see that, then I'm not the one with vision problems.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

So you've basically admitted you're an extreme Chauvinist with no interest in impartiality.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

LOL I'm interested in nothing but impariality.

State run media, by definition, is not impartial. Doubly so when talking about Russia, China, Ukraine, Turkey, Iran, etc. etc.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

Doubly so

So I'm used to you contradicting yourself from one post to the next, but now you're doing it from one sentence to the next.

And let's be honest "impartiality" just means "agrees with your preexisting pro-western bias

[-] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You do not find it the slightest bit weird that they are all non-western sources? They're good sources fighting against wrongful discreditation by the empire. Open your eyes and ears to what places like New Propaganda Radio (NPR) or New York Lies feed them!

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

Non western sources are fine, sources from authoritarian governments are always sus.

Example:

Al Jazira, for the most part, is reliable*

*As long as their reporting isn't about Qatar or Qatari interests. They have a huge blind spot there due to their ownership.

Kyiv Independent has some of the best reporting out of Ukraine.

Kyiv Insider is Ukrainian state propaganda and should not be trusted.

[-] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

I was going to reply then I realized your username. You're the infamous zionist jordanlund. Yeah it's pointless talking to you on this subject when you are on the payroll to reject all arguments

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

So your standard is completely arbitrary and is just accepting the sources that agree with your pre held pro western opinion

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

It's not arbitrary, I wouldn't trust Western run state owned media either. If it's state owned, it cannot be trusted.

Look at who's running Voice of America these days, you trust them? Oh, fuck no.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Lake

But has nothing to do with it being "Western" it has to do with it being a mouthpiece for the current ruling party.

You trust the news you get from Putin? LOL. Or from Ali Khamenei? ErdoÄźan? Because if you do, you're being lied to and in your desperate attempt to avoid "Western" media, you will never know it.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

Lol, that Wikipedia article you linked uses state owned media as a source. Guess you are willing to trust state media so long as it's laundered through a nice, western friendly proxy

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

It’s not arbitrary, I wouldn’t trust Western run state owned media either. If it’s state owned, it cannot be trusted.

So BBC, ABC, CBC are all propaganda outlets that you reject and can't be trusted?

What about privately owned propaganda outlets? You've been happy to slurp those down so long as they agree with you.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

They cite Douglas MacGregor

US Naval Institute:

Col. Douglas Macgregor USA (Ret.) is a decorated combat veteran with a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books and is the executive vice president of Burke-Macgregor Group LLC, a defense and foreign policy consulting firm in Northern Virginia.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

And you tag everything not sanctioned by the empires media tendrils as "garbage".

Aren't you one of those people who let's MBFC tell you what to think?

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world -2 points 22 hours ago

Tell you what, go find any rational source that says mehrnews.com is trustworthy. It's cool. I can wait.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehr_News_Agency

"sponsored by the government of Iran.[1][2]"

LOL.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Wikipedia tells me that Winnie the Pooh is banned in China which isn't true.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Complains about bad sources, cites Wikipedia. Lol

And be honest, you just mean "Western aligned source". It's not like you're complaining about the BBC.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

Again, put up or shut up. Find a source that says the Iranian government is anything but a propaganda source. It's cool, I can wait.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

What does that even mean? The Iranian government is a government. By definition it's more than just a "propaganda source".

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

News from the Iranian government is, de facto, propaganda. They aren't going to tell the truth about themselves or their enemies.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

Funny how you never feel that way about western state media. Or private western propaganda outlets. You only care when someone disagrees with your pre existing beliefs.

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