TheSanSabaSongbird

The selective outrage is very telling. We live in an era of unreality.

I think the point is simply that there are language barriers that create problems. This is totally believable and is a coordinating issue in any country where there are immigrants who need social services but don't speak the primary language. Not everything has to be down to all Israelis being bad people and not actually giving a fuck.

Are you sure Masha Gessen is a man?

Barbarossa. It's Operation Barbarossa. And again, you continue to ignore the political reality that at least two giant constituencies in the US had very good reasons for not wanting to get into the European war. In a democracy, their views could not be ignored, no matter what others may have thought was the right thing to do. As I constantly find myself repeating to people on lemmy, winning an election doesn't mean that you get to do anything you want, it means that you can probably do some of the things you want and will have to compromise on others.

Bullshit. The pro-Nazi elements in the US were never anywhere close to being a majority and were never close to implementing pro-Nazi policies. At worst, the US government was guilty of remaining neutral and continuing to do business with Nazi Germany, but that's a far cry from supporting the Nazis. This is pure revisionist tripe.

It's also worth mentioning that at that time the two largest ethnicities in the US were Irish and German immigrants or their immediate descendants. With the famine still in living memory and Irish independence still relatively recent, Irish-Americans were very leery of joining the war on the side of the UK, while German-Americans obviously weren't necessarily keen on fighting the country from which they'd immigrated. These two constituencies were far too important to be ignored politically, and that's a huge part of why it took the attack at Pearl Harbor for the US to do the right thing.

Of course sometimes the predictive algorithms are wildly and hilariously inaccurate too, as we should expect.

This is not a coherent position. You're basically just talking about feelings, not actual facts or policy.

Also, where can I find this "Americans second" message you speak of? Where did you see or hear that? Are you sure you're not making it up?

Even if not reintroduced, it won't be long before the wolves in Wyoming start making their way down anyway.

They already have. It's not been publicly acknowledged because there are powerful land-use interests that want us to believe that they are only shooting "coyotes."

That said, the cheapest and most effective way to protect herds is with dogs. They've been doing it in Europe and parts of Asia for thousands of years, so it's not as if the knowledge isn't out there. It's what your giant breeds like mastiffs, great Pyrenees and Anatolian shepherds and the like we're originally bred for.

There are very few people in this world who feel as entitled as rural westerners do. Their default position is that the land is theirs to do whatever they want on and the rest of us can fuck right off. Nevermind that their precious "way of life" is barely a century old and rides upon the back of Native American genocide and massive public subsidies and corruption together with the destruction of entire ecosystems and vast swathes of public land. While a lot of them are perfectly nice people otherwise, ranchers are among the worst offenders in this sense.

Honest question; what incentive would the IDF have to knowingly kill escaped Israeli hostages? To me it only makes sense as a case of being far too willing to shoot first and ask questions later. That's a problem, especially in such a dense urban environment, but it still is "accidental friendly fire" and not deliberate premeditated murder as your comment suggests.

The flipside is that we imagine that they knew the 3 Israeli hostages were trying to get back to friendly forces and decided to kill them anyway for... reasons, I guess? Nevermind that it's hell on morale and obviously a PR disaster.

I don't know, I just can't make this pencil out as anything other than a tragic fuckup born of terrible discipline. If it tells us anything, it's that the IDF are obviously trigger happy and not being at all careful, but again, that's very different from the narrative being pushed by most people in this thread.

It's cute that you appear to imagine that anyone gets rich through journalism. No one goes into journalism because they want to get rich.

Journalism is probably the lowest paid "profession" there is because it's highly competitive and in recent decades the bottom has entirely fallen out of local news organizations due to the Internet having destroyed their revenue streams.

Overwhelmingly people go into journalism because they want to make a difference, not because they want to get rich. If you want to get rich you go into finance or a STEM field or go to law school.

This idea of yours, that journalists use their own economic conditions when reporting on the economy is also objectively absurd.

To the contrary, they report what the economists and financial market experts are saying. Again, this "gaslighting" notion of yours makes no sense inasmuch as it implies something very like a conspiracy or a collective understanding that the truth is to be misrepresented.

This makes no sense in the reality that is competitive reporting in which one is rewarded for reporting "scoops" in terms of breaking news. Again, it just shows how illiterate you and many others are when it comes to understanding what actually happens in newsrooms.

While it makes sense to imagine that traditional economic indicators aren't necessarily indicative of the lived experience of average citizens, it makes zero sense to imagine that the highly competitive news media is somehow in collusion to present an inaccurate picture of the economy.

That's just plain stupid.

Source; I have a degree in journalism together with decades in the news business. It's actually pretty difficult for me to emphasize how wrong-headed you are on this.

I don't think that's what is happening at all. We don't need to imagine some vast and ridiculously improbable media conspiracy to explain this seeming disconnect. What I imagine is really happening is that the tools that economists and by extension the media use to gauge the health of the economy are no longer (if they ever were) calibrated to accurately reflect the lived experience of many/most Americans.

This is by far the simplest explanation.

The idea that this is somehow a conspiracy is simply an example of poor media literacy. It doesn't work like that at all.