Yasna wrote:So, turns out Mueller was senile
Based on what evidence are you making that claim?
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Yasna wrote:So, turns out Mueller was senile
linguoboy wrote:Based on what evidence are you making that claim?
Yasna wrote:linguoboy wrote:Based on what evidence are you making that claim?
A comparison of his testimony yesterday compared with his testimonies from his time as FBI director.
linguoboy wrote:I haven't gone through his testimony line-by-line, but the summaries I saw just mentioned him misspeaking once and correcting it afterwards. What else did you find looking at the transcripts?
Yasna wrote:Here's the NYT putting it more diplomatically than I did.
linguoboy wrote:Perhaps because there are actual consequences for them when they misstate the facts?
vijayjohn wrote:Does anybody know why Ilhan Omar is considered antisemitic? Is it because she once tweeted something about Israel hypnotizing the world? She apologized later for that comment. Does that make her still antisemitic?
linguoboy wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Does anybody know why Ilhan Omar is considered antisemitic? Is it because she once tweeted something about Israel hypnotizing the world? She apologized later for that comment. Does that make her still antisemitic?
Did you miss the furore this February when she criticised the influence of the Israel lobby in American politics?
Saim wrote:To me the idea that the American media are giving “timid” coverage of the major justification of their colonial politics is pretty absurd, but maybe thats because I’m not American.
Saim wrote:To me the idea that the American media are giving “timid” coverage of the major justification of their colonial politics is pretty absurd, but maybe thats because I’m not American.
linguoboy wrote:The whole point of investigative journalism is to explain why something happened. How do you comprehend someone’s motives without examining the circumstances that gave rise to them?
Saim wrote:I didn’t realise Barack Obama was a major newspaper.
I also “won’t” say “Islamic extremism”, because I think it’s an ambiguous term when there are much more precise ones. In any case “Islamic extremism” isn’t a magic term that will make war go away.
What might decrease violence in the world would be to stop massively inflicting it, so my criticism of US presidents is going to have more to do with policy than superficial elements of discourse.
“They hate our freedoms” is code for “they’re culturally/religiously different”.
It’s not just “implausible”, it was a very deliberate xenophobic narrative.
Yasna wrote:linguoboy wrote:The whole point of investigative journalism is to explain why something happened. How do you comprehend someone’s motives without examining the circumstances that gave rise to them?
Investigative journalism is great as long as it's done honestly and without shying away from uncomfortable facts. Otherwise you get a slanted picture, which is what happened in the case of Islamist terrorism. The major newspapers basically took the cue from Obama who famously wouldn't even use the phrase "Islamic extremism". And this led to a slanted analysis and understanding.
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