• @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    -15 days ago

    Iranian propaganda is not the best source for this.

    It may very well be true, this is not the org to believe on it.

        • They cite Douglas MacGregor

          US Naval Institute:

          Col. Douglas Macgregor USA (Ret.) is a decorated combat veteran with a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books and is the executive vice president of Burke-Macgregor Group LLC, a defense and foreign policy consulting firm in Northern Virginia.

        • @BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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          74 days ago

          And you tag everything not sanctioned by the empires media tendrils as “garbage”.

          Aren’t you one of those people who let’s MBFC tell you what to think?

        • @jackeroni@lemmy.mlOP
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          04 days ago

          Its clear friend, you have closed your mind to anything the empire deems as bad. I do hope that you can find your way

          • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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            -34 days ago

            I have closed my mind to Iranian, Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian and Israeli state propaganda sources, as everyone should.

            It’s a bogus news organization, if you can’t see that, then I’m not the one with vision problems.

              • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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                -44 days ago

                LOL I’m interested in nothing but impariality.

                State run media, by definition, is not impartial. Doubly so when talking about Russia, China, Ukraine, Turkey, Iran, etc. etc.

                • @BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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                  64 days ago

                  Doubly so

                  So I’m used to you contradicting yourself from one post to the next, but now you’re doing it from one sentence to the next.

                  And let’s be honest “impartiality” just means "agrees with your preexisting pro-western bias

                  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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                    -43 days ago

                    No contradiction:

                    State run media is biased in favor of the state running it. That’s a basic fact.

                    When talking about certain governments, it’s EVEN WORSE than normal government interference.

                    You think you’re getting honest news out of Pyongyang? Someone’s Pyonging your Yang if you know what I mean…

                    See also Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Ankara…

            • @jackeroni@lemmy.mlOP
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              You do not find it the slightest bit weird that they are all non-western sources? They’re good sources fighting against wrongful discreditation by the empire. Open your eyes and ears to what places like New Propaganda Radio (NPR) or New York Lies feed them!

              • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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                -24 days ago

                Non western sources are fine, sources from authoritarian governments are always sus.

                Example:

                Al Jazira, for the most part, is reliable*

                *As long as their reporting isn’t about Qatar or Qatari interests. They have a huge blind spot there due to their ownership.

                Kyiv Independent has some of the best reporting out of Ukraine.

                Kyiv Insider is Ukrainian state propaganda and should not be trusted.

                • @BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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                  34 days ago

                  So your standard is completely arbitrary and is just accepting the sources that agree with your pre held pro western opinion

                  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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                    -34 days ago

                    It’s not arbitrary, I wouldn’t trust Western run state owned media either. If it’s state owned, it cannot be trusted.

                    Look at who’s running Voice of America these days, you trust them? Oh, fuck no.

                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Lake

                    But has nothing to do with it being “Western” it has to do with it being a mouthpiece for the current ruling party.

                    You trust the news you get from Putin? LOL. Or from Ali Khamenei? Erdoğan? Because if you do, you’re being lied to and in your desperate attempt to avoid “Western” media, you will never know it.

                • @jackeroni@lemmy.mlOP
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                  24 days ago

                  I was going to reply then I realized your username. You’re the infamous zionist jordanlund. Yeah it’s pointless talking to you on this subject when you are on the payroll to reject all arguments

                  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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                    -13 days ago

                    No payroll here, and not sure how repeatedly saying Israel has been committing war crimes for decades and will continue until somebody forces them to stop makes me a zionist. LOL. Try again.