nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 journalists are likely to say they're just reporting the board's view, not making their own judgement. They're avoiding libel claims. It's the same when they use "scare quotes". But they seem happy enough to print lies when it suits them. It's all weasel words.
I'd love for journalists to just come out and use the words racist and sexist, wait for the libel claim, and prove themselves right in court.
nostr:npub1shw9yn8j44v9h8y3f3czfrpr9q9d5750jlf5xgxljkjhwr508wjsejaesf "Rolling Stone founder fired after saying women and black musicians were 'less articulate'". Gives the facts, allows people to make up their own minds.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 journalists are likely to say they're just reporting the board's view, not making their own judgement. They're avoiding libel claims. It's the same when they use "scare quotes". But they seem happy enough to print lies when it suits them. It's all weasel words.
I'd love for journalists to just come out and use the words racist and sexist, wait for the libel claim, and prove themselves right in court.
nostr:npub1shw9yn8j44v9h8y3f3czfrpr9q9d5750jlf5xgxljkjhwr508wjsejaesf I'm a journalist and I could write a headline for this story that would be more accurate and be just as legally sound.
It's interesting that I posted two similar stories at the same time but this one got more shares - I think that casual start "Oh, and..." could function as a kind of rhetorical device?
Like, posts which start with that kind of phrasing have more of a hook. I did it accidentally but I think some people use it as a technique.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3
when Meir Kahane, a Rabbi that can't be described any other way than the Jewish equivalent of a Nazi, was elected into Parliament in 1984, all other parties refused to even acknowledge him, his speeches was boycotted, and a special law was passed to bar him from running in the next election.
40 years later, one of his most prolific students is now the minister of national security who oversees the police.
nostr:npub10l3fwt2j350myv2n2ajxkkfngn2cvnvgt9purdslp75869jtec7s7xht5s yes it's absolutely bloodcurdling.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 nostr:npub1ezxuyey29gdneq8qqva23f6ktz83nws3l38vvd0mdw2tsey4lmqq0y74mr Exactly. I'm pretty sure that the reason both the Labour and Tory parties campaigned against AV for the 2011 UK referendum was not because of any immediate effects it would have had (very little) but the realisation that with AV both parties would eventually split up. In retrospect we can see that would probably have been over Brexit.
nostr:npub12u7khzdl0w9qydjy36dwwc65mjwgtd7amm72h6mly4w26yc6t3as2rwtsg nostr:npub1ezxuyey29gdneq8qqva23f6ktz83nws3l38vvd0mdw2tsey4lmqq0y74mr that's an interesting point, that AV might change how politicians feel about the threshold for striking out on their own, as several did over the last 10 years but disappeared.
nostr:npub19fcv2nflra09c6p9xz8c8detwj6uy07u4z4m25qh836mnvxtatdq6aay3c maybe because so many of them are IT people who feel they own the place, or own the cultural rights to it. Like gamers in gamer spaces.
nostr:npub1pkm5tuceyhq2atmxjcdnhw7e7x8klg4c0q2j8wz87avhjuavgn6s9fkhar "you cook food, why don't you want to shove a carrot up my ass?"
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I tend to blame the people, because none of these appeasement politicians are lunatics, fanatics or extremists who try to sell their agenda no matter what.
They are just career politicians who carefully calibrate their words and actions to the probability to get votes.
Don't know their names in Norway, but here they are called Söder, Merz, Wagenknecht....
nostr:npub1xev3gg6v5us322llztha8kge0gxwnz0lgq2f5f7adksxuqx70g8stccgy3 ok, I understand.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3
Oh ok.
So who's to blame?
The politicians or the people?
nostr:npub1xev3gg6v5us322llztha8kge0gxwnz0lgq2f5f7adksxuqx70g8stccgy3 if I had to choose just one of those options I'd say the politicians.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3
Are you aware that in Germany we are facing exactly that same problems today in this hour?
nostr:npub1xev3gg6v5us322llztha8kge0gxwnz0lgq2f5f7adksxuqx70g8stccgy3 yes, that's what inspired my post.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 Yes. I meant theater as in the actual military term theater of war.
Doesn't make it any less brutal.
nostr:npub12sevhhk383sjm9fu3thcuwd3x4t6e0wyd687mkltys8pfzkhmglsxumw80 thank you for explaining.
nostr:npub1ug8yq5ccfa64v3p6axqw8f94qxlznep53l22vjuecpd3629cqjhsgnytkq finally the answer to what Tiggers eat - it's meth.
nostr:npub1tlqlv4ktw83eewd4rawr64g4ssrrpujn99t9y4tkze2say4zsgzqymhmsx nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 I honestly thought that virulent racism had died out in the UK, some time in the late 80s or early 90s when I stopped seeing racial slurs and “NF” graffitied on the London Underground. It was a major shock to see it all come back and get mainstreamed, albeit with a broader choice of targets.
nostr:npub1yamt4pnum78u4ludkwfttlmcltu5gsygqc8f8e62t4hcv32vvlmq0d2l9d nostr:npub1tlqlv4ktw83eewd4rawr64g4ssrrpujn99t9y4tkze2say4zsgzqymhmsx yes it came back so fast and against so many different people.
nostr:npub1kegqm6nccp8av6hqlwnchr0hqxq448x8jeeczuyway38nx37uszq7lgzem Germany's fascism vaccination seems to be wearing off.
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Thankfully the UK &NATO chose to accept Russia's fake explanation rather than escalate things when a UK spy plane in the Black Sea was shot at & fortunately missed. The US can be trigger happy too.
nostr:npub16luc28k04khgr3fsxqy896ljzaxjpwtsuxgu0jaezydp5xh5rgaq5z5aha all the fears of escalation based on either Putin or Nato wanting more war seem to be without grounds.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 indeed. But then the only countries in Europe to use FPTP voting are Belarus and the UK.
Curious, that.
nostr:npub1ezxuyey29gdneq8qqva23f6ktz83nws3l38vvd0mdw2tsey4lmqq0y74mr Britain is still using parliament Vista and hasn't upgraded.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3
Okay. What's happening in Germany that is concerning? I can't find anything recent
nostr:npub1zlc7g4mjtlv076l9dgnvp9z37mfc2xysu5frjs6s2g8reu0uzveq0yesew it's the CDU in Thüringen moving towards working with the AfD.
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I have no idea. I thought the subtoot was the snarky indirect post, and the supertoot was what it was actually referring to.
nostr:npub1zlc7g4mjtlv076l9dgnvp9z37mfc2xysu5frjs6s2g8reu0uzveq0yesew there's two toots linked by a reply, if that helps.