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Post by jdredd on Dec 15, 2022 13:57:33 GMT -5
An article in the NYT today claims that people who think arming the Ukrainians is s bad idea are tools of Putin’s disinformation. But then I’m well aware of the NYT’s neocon slant, just like I’m aware of WION’s anti-China slanted news. There are no unbiased news sources.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 16, 2022 15:25:26 GMT -5
Meanwhile, while the NYT cheerleads NATO’s war on Russia, they apparently have labor problems and alleged to be bringing in scabs. Makes me laugh.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 21, 2022 6:32:35 GMT -5
Old Bret has chimed in with big rant in the opinion section of the NYT. He’s cheerleading for America to “stand tough” and be like WC against Russian and Chinese aggression, or we are a bunch of doomed pussies, just on time for Maximum Leader Zelensky’s PR tour of the US. What’s the Schiller quote I love so I’ve probably mentioned it more than once? “Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain”, and I still think arming Ukraine was especially stupid.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 23, 2022 14:17:21 GMT -5
It’s Mr. Brooks’s turn to ride the Zelensky bandwagon along with almost the whole of Congress. (Did they want to bathe in reflected “glory”?) I haven’t seen this level of herd behavior since…I don’t remember. And if you want to dissent, you run the risk of being associated with weirdos like Tucker Carlson since the left is MIA.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 24, 2022 14:35:27 GMT -5
The NYT has a top of the page article on line about 36 victims of the Russians in Bucha. Yes, it’s awful (and here comes the but), but what’s interesting to me is to see the NYT engaging in this kind of cheerleading for US involvement. Looking back at 1914 again, Britain engaged in generating a lot of outrage describing German actions in Belgium, helping to generate cannon fodder to march to the trenches.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 25, 2022 14:31:28 GMT -5
Another day, another inspiring article praising the Ukrainian resistance on the front page. Such blatant and tiresome propaganda.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 7, 2023 1:03:10 GMT -5
Needless to say, the credibility of the NYT has dropped considerably in my eyes.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 8, 2023 12:35:44 GMT -5
The NYT has its almost daily puff piece on heroic Ukraine fighting the evil invaders titled “Volunteers seeking revenge against Russia”. Mostly they are Chechens.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 15, 2023 13:51:54 GMT -5
Oh boy, this is fun: David and Bret conversing on what has happened to the GOP. Basically, they say “I didn’t leave the GOP, the GOP left me.” At least they are doing some self-reflection, which the Democrats seem incapable of. I claimed any self-respecting Republican should have left the party when Trump was nominated, so I guess I have to add any self-respecting Democrat should leave Biden’s corrupt warmongering party.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 21, 2023 13:34:20 GMT -5
Bless its Neocon soul, the NYT has another editorial today denouncing Putin and cheerleading Biden’s war against him. Whatever. It cheered the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq too. And it has jumped onto the regime change in Moscow. Personally, I think we need a regime change in Washington too. Biden still has two years to get us deeper into this fiasco. Of course, questioning our involvement puts one in MAGA territory since there is no Left. Who knew that being anti-war would make you a rightie?
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Post by jdredd on Feb 5, 2023 12:36:09 GMT -5
Do good old David French has received asylum from the National Review in the NYT. Does the NYT really need another neocon? I guess they are going full in. Just in time to continue cheerleading Zelensky. But was it a good move for David to join the MSM? Probably the money was too good to pass up.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 14, 2023 17:50:19 GMT -5
While it looks likes Russia is on the verge of taking the the city of Backmut, claimed to be strategically significant, what is the NYT reporting? Yesterday was a puff piece on Russians volunteering to fight Russians in Ukraine, the numbers I am guessing are very small. And today they are focusing on one dead American aid worker and other Russian war crimes. And I pay for this?
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Post by jdredd on Feb 15, 2023 9:56:20 GMT -5
Today Bret Stevens took a break fron cheerleading Ukraine to do some China bashing. Something about how we should react with steel to China’s vinyl balloon invasion, and of course listed all of China’s many sins, including, of course, Tik Tok. And our holy duty to sell Taiwan billions of dollars worth of arms. When you have the NYT to give us the neocon spin, who need the WSJ?
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Post by jdredd on Feb 18, 2023 18:18:24 GMT -5
It’s a year since the start of the war, so the NYT has chimed in. Besides the usual puff piece about some hottie Ukrainian teacher who has taken up arms, the NYT editorial board did its neocon cheerleading of the war. Again. And that is followed by Nicolas Kristoff advocating more escalation. They did note that $150B has already been promised to Ukraine, and they mention how dissent to the war is only from the “far left and far right”. At least the left gets a mention even though most have been MIA opposing the war. No one can predict the future, but I will bet that history will condemn neocon bloodthirstyness.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 19, 2023 13:07:01 GMT -5
Another day, another cheerleader for war chimes in in the NYT. This time it is David French, the.newest refugee from the National Review. There is so much to argue with him about I wouldn’t know where to start, but I could start at the ending: “It’s awful to say this about any war, given the horrific loss of life, but this one is winnable.” How can he be so sure? But sadly and tellingly, he gives the far right Tucker types the blame for a growing anti-war sentiment. Maybe because it is the militaries of NATO countries are sounding the alarm of dwindling arms reserves going in huge amounts to Ukraine. And how about this: “Instead, domestic agreement is fraying, As The Washington Post reported last week, the Biden administration is telling Ukraine there are no guarantees of future support, and it’s “raising the pressure” on Ukraine “to make significant gains on the battlefield” in the short term, while Western aid still flows”. Nice. Push them into a bloody offensive with no certainty of success. Well, hell, the Ukrainians have a million men in uniform so they have lots to spare.
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