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Why on earth would they update the original story but not to add this context

TL;DR he’s out now

Yeah I definitely think I know why

I wonder what types of actors might be interested in stirring tensions between Muslims and the far right in the UK

I wonder if Channel 3 Now, an account on the X social media platform that purports to be a news channel, will look similar to a couple of UK oriented channels on the X social media platform that purport to be a news channel, that I have run across recently

Here’s where I was asking some questions about one

For the uninitiated: the TL;DR version is that a bunch of these “we’re gonna go rescue Eagle Pass from the immigrants” idiots all got in a boat and tried to go down and coup Maduro, who has a whole military and security services instead of thinking that his high score on Warthunder would equip him with success or whatever was in the coup people’s minds. They made it like 10 feet off the beach and were instantly arrested by actual defensive forces (police I think) and eventually ejected from the country.

No governmental body was involved in any capacity; the US government also likes to do coups against Venezuela, including the OG one against Chávez which actually went about equally well as this one and resolved in hilarious fashion. But this wasn’t one of those.

Let me ask you; when you’re talking about your politics with people, do they sometimes quickly develop this really strong I-don’t-want-to-talk-with-you-anymore energy? ‘Cause if so, I feel like I might know why.

Action Park

Supposedly there is another one that doesn’t make it sound quite so awesome and emphasizes more for balance purposes the negligence and corruption that killed a bunch of people aspect. But many people who were around at the time seem to like this one.

Also, “Kunuk Uncovered” from Documentary Now on Netflix.

You are 100%, 1,000%, 10,000% right.

Remember how cool it was with Kamala up there and the local band playing, and people in the audience bopping around? That’s exactly how it was in Tiananmen Square for a while, and how it felt in Nicaragua when the Sandinistas were doing literacy and immunization, and a dawn of hope was growing that good people might get to run the country for once.

It’s not safe yet. Take it real fuckin serious.

Can you give me a couple examples?

The Hill has never been a good news organization

Idk why this story would be a problem but they’re not good

It’s a good idea but it is, ironically, not really attentive enough to the facts to be useful, because you can’t trust it to be telling the truth

We need MBFCFC

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What the fuck is the issue now

I was all set to say, okay you redeemed yourself with The Guardian because you actually picked out some factually wrong stuff I didn’t know about and I learned they were maybe more sensationalist a paper than I was aware of and that’s relevant information

Now this I am somewhat confident is some bullshit, but let’s see

Edit: Hm. Here are some of the things they’re calling out as lies, and then the context:

• Says Walmart is “one of the largest sellers of assault-style weapons.” – False

There’s not really any further information, but it kinda looks to me like when this was said, it was true. “Walmart estimates that it contributes just 2% of total US gun sales and 20% of ammunition sales. He said this means Walmart is probably not among the top three guns sellers in the country.” So, they’re potentially among the top 3 means to me they’re one of the largest. I mean you could nitpick what “assault style weapons” means but the point is it’s not wildly off base.

• “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over.” - Pants on fire

They showed, on air, a tweet that said this, Brian Williams and his guest talked about it, and then Brian Williams explained that that’s not how that works. And then, after the show, they put out a tweet just reiterating for anyone who missed the point that that’s not how that works.

I didn’t watch the video so maybe I’m missing something but it sounds like Politifact should not be calling this any kind of untrue.

Idk; I think it’s clear that something is wrong and that this is not a good way to rate news programs. I think maybe they have sort of criteria in mind and they’re suited to print media when applied correctly, but not to a video program where two people are talking to each other, and they’re also not really doing much more than quickly scouring for individual instances instead of trying to get a sense of the overall reliability of the outlet.

It’s not like transparent bullshit like “anti Israel = lying” like they were doing on some other outlets, but it is some type of bullshit.

I mean, it is a pretty cool sculpture. I'll give them that.