"yes, i know western media lied about iraq, cuba, vietnam, china, palestine, libya, pakistan, yemen, and somalia, but north korea?? no way, impossible!! they would NEVER lie about north korea!! this is the one time they are absolutely accurate and telling the truth!!!"
that's how most of you sound.
"The western media lied about Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq, but they're absolutely telling the truth about vaccines!! Vaccines are absolutely true! This is how yall sound" and also, when has the Western media ever lied about Pakistan? Or Somalia? This is a child's understanding of geopolitics, just go on a wikipedia page of "Wars involving the US" and add them to your list? Oh, so were the western media also lying about ISIS, the Taliban, Assad, Putin and Hitler? You really have a selective memory.
you can disagree, but be respectful if you want to talk to me.
I'm being fairly respectfull btw, I don't know what respectful means in the context of Tumblr but I'm trying to. With that said when has the Western media ever lied about Pakistan or Somalia? And my point still stands, why did you pick up such specific examples, the Western media didn't lie about Assad or ISIS, or Putin? If you add this than your simplistic point looks weird.
Western media lies about North Korea. The lack of rigorous fact-checking and manipulative, contextless headlines is a documented fact. Please check out the work of Dr. Suzy Kim from Rutgers University.
additionally western media does in fact frequently lie or at least leave out critical information when it comes to the groups and people you mentioned?
when it comes to isis, western media often ignores isis' ties to the syrian free army, in order to frame the sfa as democracy loving freedom fighters even though there are islamists all throughout their ranks. not to mention the fact that isis only got as big because of the invasion of iraq.
the us armed the afghan mujahideen during operation cyclone and many of those same mujahideen later formed the taliban. how often does mass media talk about this in relation to the taliban?
the most common narratives around hitler are also incorrect. often the holocaust is framed as the act of a mad man who had the country under its spell, in order to absolve the mass of germans who participated of guilt. the class character of fascism as a primarily petit bourgeois phenomenon is also generally ignored. the nsdap's ties to industrial capitalists both in germany and outside of it, and the fact that the inmates of concentration camps were slaves who provided free labour for german industry are key to understanding the rise of european fascism, but most media and history about the third reich conveniently leaves out that part.
this addition is too long already, but i think you get the point.
Western media already lied about putin invading ukraine, ignoring Donbass and Ukrainian attrocities.
Its always the anarchists that love to deep throat state department propaganda despite claiming to be anti us
so i have something to say about online anarchists because at some point you people have to actually notice the pattern for the love of god. every single time the United States decides some government in the Global South is Evil Authoritarian Regime ™️ suddenly there’s an entire ecosystem of NGOs, “civil society” influencers, soft-power think tanks, and activist networks all repeating the exact same language about decentralisation, anti-statism, “horizontalism,” and the absolute unquestionable need to dismantle existing institutions for the sake of “freedom.” and somehow this is always framed as totally organic and grassroots and definitely not connected to the fact that the United States Agency for International Development and affiliated liberal institutions have spent literal decades funding and cultivating these norms abroad
like wow. crazy coincidence that “abolish the state” discourse keeps materialising most aggressively in countries the western bloc already wants weakened, fragmented, liberalised, or opened to transnational capital. absolutely fascinating. i’m sure the destruction of state capacity in places already devastated by sanctions, intervention, and debt somehow empowers ordinary people instead of multinational corporations and foreign interests
