A Political Thread pt. 2

[General Melchett]

Didn't South Africa raise a genocide case against Israel? Not difficult to join the dots leading to Trump's ambush and misuse of the word genocide. I think he has a dual reporting line to Moscow and Tel Aviv.

 

[General Melchett]

Washington DC shooting live updates: Man charged with first degree murder of Israeli embassy staff

Couple Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lischinsky “were in the prime of their lives” before they were shot dead near a Jewish museum.

www.bbc.co.uk

FFS - hopefully the shooter gets caught and brought to justice.

Edit: Just turned the news on and heard an Israeli ambassador blaming the UN for spreading lies about 14,000 babies on the brink of dying due to the lack of aid. FFS what a fecking mess. I fear there will be more incidents like this which will allow Netanyahu to double down.

 

[McTallshort]

What's happened to Elon Musk?

 

[Welsh Exile]

"The majority of US media (TV, radio and blogs) are right wing."

Hahahaha come in mate, that's ludicrous lol.

Lots of studies have been done over the last 20 years, and they all show the same thing, Journalism is a left / liberal past time, TV is dominated by leftnof centre politics.

In 2013 there was a study that identified over 1000 journalists political leanings, it showed aprox 40% left, 12% right and 40% centrist. That was 2013, I'm 100% sure this leans further today. This 40% was actually a drop since 2002 also.

Pew did a study on Trump's first 100 days in 2016, and compared it to Obamas... 60% odd negative to Obamasa 20% odd.

Infact another article in 2020 found the vast majority of journalists identified as liberal / left.

A 2017 study compared negative articles about the first 60 days of Obama, Bush and Clinton, and trump 40%, 28%, 28% and 5% hahahaha

A recent study in the UK found nearly 80% of journalists identify as left leaning lol

I could go find plenty more studies, I could present numbers, but we only have to look at Trump's treatment vs Bidens treatment over the last few years.

Are you with a straight face claiming that the 'right leaning media' didn't go on a 4 year tirade promoting and playing back up for Biden? The now acknowledged laptop story, his dementia (and possibly cancer), Hunter lol, literally dropping bags of coke on the white house lawn, how many article criticised Biden for his pardons? I think I saw 90% defending it lol. In contrast Trump farts, there are 64 articles about it smelling nazi like.

Now I can caveat this with a few things, Journalists identifying left might not all be biased in their reporting, Trump bashing being a gold mine in clicks views and engagement, and Trump being super unlikable as a person, but come on, look at top 10 news outlets in the USA...

The New York Times
CNN
Fox News
The Washington Post
NBC News
CBS News
USA Today
The Wall Street Journal
Reuters
Yahoo News

All except Fox are perennial Trump bashers, 3 of them have conceded they defamed Trump, 2 are currently under pressure for it.

I'm happy to discuss individual contexts articles, companies, but to claim right wing is the dominant narrative lol

Nothing compares to the dominion law suit though I'm sure you'd agree.

 

[Welsh Exile]

The whole thing is ridiculous and I imagine will be waved off with a warning or whatever but

Is pretty funny, especially as he posted him reading that Hezbollah book calling for genocide against the Jews

I think I read that the charges about calling for MPs to be killed is going to be separate (still being investigated?) be interesting to see what happens with that as I believe that was further in the past and not too long after David Amess was killed

I don’t know much but I’ve seen enough Sharpe episodes to know the Irish fought for the Brits too.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Nice Fred Perry,
Hate the Brits but love their clobber

 

[Which Tyler]

Washington DC shooting live updates: Man charged with first degree murder of Israeli embassy staff

Couple Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lischinsky “were in the prime of their lives” before they were shot dead near a Jewish museum.

www.bbc.co.uk

I hope to the gods that I'm being way too cynical here, but it seems awfully convenient that this has happened a day or two after EU, UK and even the US started to apply some mild pressure on Israel.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Total witch hunt against Kneecap again. Terrorism charge against nationalists from the North of Ireland. Wouldn't happen to an English band.

 

[Saintjay]

What's happened to Elon Musk?

He's the bloke in Kneecap with the balaclava I'm betting.

 

[dirty harry]

Nothing compares to the dominion law suit though I'm sure you'd agree.

Please see my comments above, Trump can be both Perpetrator and Victim!

 

[dirty harry]

I hope to the gods that I'm being way too cynical here, but it seems awfully convenient that this has happened a day or two after EU, UK and even the US started to apply some mild pressure on Israel.

Oooff that's dark, not even I wanted to post that that was my first instinct hahaha

 

[McTallshort]

He's the bloke in Kneecap with the balaclava I'm betting.

He wouldn't cover his Turkey implants like that

 

[odw26]

I see attempting to move American conversations to it's own thread is going well.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Fact-checking Donald Trump's Oval Office confrontation with Cyril Ramaphosa

President Trump made a series of claims about the killing of white farmers in South Africa, some of which are demonstrably false.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AlRums]

Trump’s cultural overhaul throttles local arts, humanities programs nationwide

https://us.cnn.com/2025/05/22/politics/trump-culture-arts-humanities-grants-funding

Continuing to try and wipe non white history out.

 

[Ddanno]

I see attempting to move American conversations to it's own thread is going well.

Getting a No Sealions policy in here would do the job for me (credit WT for reminding me of it)

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Ramaphosa withstood Trump’s bizarre ambush – but he let down South Africans | Zanele Mji

Rather than trying to charm the US president with golf, Cyril Ramaphosa could have addressed the white supremacist attitudes holding our country back, says South African journalist and podcaster Zanele Mji

www.theguardian.com

 

[AlRums]

Trump administration ends Harvard's ability to enrol international students

The move escalates the administration's row with America's oldest university over hiring, admissions and teaching practices.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Trump administration ends Harvard's ability to enrol international students

The move escalates the administration's row with America's oldest university over hiring, admissions and teaching practices.

www.bbc.co.uk

Arresting judging, waging war on academic institutions, arresting lawmakers, removing all government watchdogs, but I'm sure this is just another perfectly normal administration with someone who's just a bit brash at the head of it.

 

[Ddanno]

Arresting judging, waging war on academic institutions, arresting lawmakers, removing all government watchdogs, but I'm sure this is just another perfectly normal administration with someone who's just a bit brash at the head of it.

Thankfully it's not remotely facistic. Not at all.