this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
68 points (95.9% liked)

World News

38500 readers
3846 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Fuck the Junta. All my homies hate the Junta.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Hear hear, fuck military dictatorships.

Also, yeesh, that headline... Like, I'm sure if people wanted to do a deep dive into this topic the ethnic ties and traditions that are shared by these different rebel groups are important to understanding them and what's going on here, but would it have killed the AP to describe them as "pro-democracy guerillas" in the headline instead of saving that one for the article and going with "armed ethnic alliances"? You start telling Americans about armed ethnic alliances and they'll be demanding airstrikes before you've finished your sentence.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I swear, sometimes it almost feels as if news organizations don’t actually like democracy at all. They're sure as shit doing an awful job of defending it in the US, at least.

[–] BoJo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

The problem is that the West has decided to associate democracy with liberal ideals... And then proceeds to support Israel, which democratically decided to not support those ideals.

Democracy and liberal ideals are not the same thing. One is not required for the other.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)