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Should people... Not be critical? There's always been so much glazing of the US throughout history
It’s not that they’re being critical, it’s that someone is being shady with some sort of motive. I don’t want the fediverse to get ruined with narrative attack bs, I want to talk to real humans who aren’t trying to manipulate me. If I was cool with that I’d just go back to Reddit.
I agree with you, but this is a link to a New York Times article, not some shady blog just made to push an agenda.
If people didn't find this article interesting, they could just not upvote it.
NYT isn’t exactly much better than a shady blog. Like most media now.
Okay but it's still regarded as a serious publication, even if every publication has some kind of agenda
what is your sources of info than? it better not be blogs, or another opinion article, because those arnt news either. you should do the due dilligence when looking at any news article, or article, verify the source and facts.
That's cute but Lemmy has the same agenda pushing bots that Reddit has.
The posters account is about a day old. For more context. (Voyager shows you an icon and age when accounts are new. Just like Apollo did)
And their account is now deleted. Definitely abnormal behavior.
Edit: it’s possible the voyager account age thing is confused by the deleted account.
Boost does as well, little chick popping out of an egg
Nice. I think it should be a standard feature. And the need is ever increasing, it seems.
i wonder if its these bot spammers im hearing about from another forum that is considering targeting lemmy like they do with reddit, as a way to warm up or drump up thier "eventual linking thier businesses). on the other note, it could be propaganda bots testing the waters.
It's the astroturfing that's objectionable.
Throughout history? Whose?
The USA's international opinion has been on the downtrend for like 20 years, with its precipitous drop like 10 years ago.
It's not the '90s anymore; the only people pushing American exceptionalism are ignoramuses and jingoists who will do that regardless of any facts, not normal citizens.
I've always found the other half of American exceptiolism to be equally stupid;the opinion that America is the worst country ever, ir, exceptionally evil or bad among history.
Yeah, every country that is a world power now is looking down from a mountain of ravaged bodies.
America is only the latest, and doing so in an era where the victims can livestream back the atrocities committed in the name of the country's "empire".
A lot of people in my country used to believe until very recently (and a lot others still believe) that the USA is the best country in the world (or second best because of nationalism) and that everyone wishes they could go there
Critical of bots? Yes. Among other things.
Always be critical of the source. That's not to say you shouldn't ever be critical of the content obviously.
Right but the source would be the article posted