• TacticsConsort@yiffit.net
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    Gonna say it, this REALLY feels like a case of the news cherry-picking what parts of a protest they show. Between the unreasonable viewpoint that’s directly adjacent to a very sensible and popular viewpoint and the fact we KNOW the media have a very vested interest in trying to push pro-genocide narratives (such as anti-Israel protests being pro-terrorist)…

    Yeah, even someone as gullible as me? I’m not buying this.

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      UK news sources are very prone to behaving like that, if you ever spent time in r/GreenAndPleasant it’s shocking how much UK news you dont hear about. Anything vaguely anti-crown just doesn’t get coverage. Or protests in general.

      It’s part of why they media bias bot is laughable given it considers BBC unbiased

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        It’s part of why they media bias bot is laughable given it considers BBC unbiased

        Do you remember the “Sir you are being hunted” indie game? That is what i imagine the bot to look like, wearing tweed and living in his evil robot cottage.

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      This is the telegraph.

      Imagine Boris Johnson dressed in tweed and living in a cottage in Devon

      That’s their reader base

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    Among the placards on display on the London march was one showing a silhouette of Nasrallah, with the words “We will not abandon Palestine”.

    One example. One.

    Others declared: “Hezbollah are not terrorists” and “I love Hezbollah”.

    How many? How many out of the entire crowd?

    The placards were on prominent display, despite the Metropolitan Police warning on Friday that it would crack down on any displays of support for prescribed terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

    What does “prominent display” mean in the context of a public protest?

    They had two photos of such signs, clearly from the same group of people. Which must be a pretty small group considering that is the entirety of their evidence.

    Frankly, I’m weighing deleting this article as misinformation.

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      Fun fact. There were known neonazis around Shandon Simpson with a Hezbollah flag at the Protests at the DNC convention like a month or two back and far right media in the anglosphere, some pro Netanyahu outlets in Israel and zionist “journalists” in Germany used this as “proof” how the protestor were all terrorists. Meanwhile there were videos where the carriers were interviewed and it was painstakingly obvious to be neonazi trolls aiming to sow dissent and create these kind of images. Even the ADL recognized the culprits.

      I have written something in my substack about it (in German) if anyone is interested. The images and a tweet of the ADL alone are enough to tell the key aspects of the story. https://salehdt.substack.com/p/taz-fallt-auf-rechtsextreme-trolle

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    Really? You love militants who would probably rather kill you than have a coffee with you?

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        I suspect a lot of people are unhappy and are looking for solutions. They aren’t evaluating their solutions, just latching onto the first things that make them feel like change is possible.

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          This is the best explanation of anything I’ve read in years. I think you are spot on. There would be a lot less polarisation online if people understood this.

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          I think people are looking outside their persona atomization and realizing the world is much worse than the hegemonic narrative would have us believe. As more information becomes available, old ideology declines. The smug comfort of white bros is disturbed when their moral authority is questioned. If they can’t make lazy jokes about having coffee in a genocide, is anything safe anymore?

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      I mean, they are picking militants who are opposing genocide. Choosing ‘would rather kill you’ over ‘are killing you’ is logical in a limited context.

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      What the hell are you even talking about? Where do you people get the idea that Hezbollah and every other Islamist entity is like ISIS? Do you know a single thing about Lebanon???

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      Weird how I’m not seeing all the pro-terrorist signs in the photo of the crowd at the top of that image.

      I wonder if maybe the Telegraph, run by one of the conservative, ultra-rich Barclay brothers, might have some sort of agenda here?

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      “Holocaust-inversion” is one of those phrases that just immediately marks you as a hasbarist.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    “Allah is above them”

    Maybe, but the flying spaghetti monster is even higher!