The only political message I have

Mister Loser said:
I'll be perfectly honest, I am genuinely disgusted by the fact that our site is being misrepresented in all aspects, but honestly there's very few people I could even try to defend this event to without them thinking I'm disgusting. The media has poisoned the well that badly.

I honestly just like laughing at idiots on the internet in hopes that they'll learn. Byuu was not an idiot, there were some people here figuring he was a weirdo who said bad stuff but when he came here he was actively encouraged and helped by people on this site to improve. Journalists will choose to completely ignore that part of the story in favor of just spinning the "freeze peach bad" narrative, and in doing so they're self-restricting the freedom of the press.

I'd like to think I'm a morally upstanding individual, and what I'm doing here is not as reprehensible as it's painted to be. Idiots on the internet deserve to take responsibility for their statements and actions if they don't hide who they are, and I still sincerely believe that. I also believe that, despite what Josh said, the media really isn't all that bad, and journalism can be a respectable industry as long as the people reporting do their hardest to share the truth and send it out to the masses. What is bad is when the media proves to people that they are exactly who the dregs of society say that are. I don't want anybody to try and hide things to make their job easier, to satiate their narratives and cognitive biases. I, along with many others, want truth.

Please, give me the truth. Not lazily spun thinkpieces, not poorly written reports, the truth. The media has an important role as a watchdog for democracy, but all I'm seeing right now is an old hound laying on the front lawn who can barely bark.
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Fag.
 
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Rap Scallion said:
Man these shills need to go back to writing about Fyre Fest knockoffs and shit. Or maybe get a real job.
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Column-inches have gotten far more difficult for the modern journalist since the Kardashians decided to retire and Joe Biden was sworn in.
Journalism basically became the literary equivalent of shitty fast food in 2008 and has not improved since.
 
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DocHoliday1977 said:
*Munches popcorn
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“Munches….” :popcorn:
 
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Andrew Neiman said:
This is like going into a building where the janitors are doing a poor job and there's trash everywhere, and concluding that the trash problem would be solved if there were no janitors at all. You're indulging in a revenge fantasy, not putting forth an actual solution.
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Except it's more like going into a building where the janitors have been actively doing everything they can to trash the fucking place. Yes, having no janitors would be preferable to having jabitors that actively smash up the windows and piss on the floor.
 
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Null said:
From what I understand, they list place and date, not names.
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U.S. Citizen Deaths Overseas

Sec. 204(c) of P.L. 107-228, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, mandates that, to the maximum extent practicable, the Department of State collect and make available on the Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs Internet web site certain information with respect to...
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The list gives a date of death, cause of death and the prefecture in which the death occurred. The list is also so short that you can count the entirety of 2020’s Japan deaths with your limbs. Of the fourteen deaths that year, one was a suicide. Arakawa, where byuu allegedly lives, has a population of 208k. The chance that another Davido-kun in the same area decided to off himself on the same day would be astronomical.

We’re more interested in seeing if there’s simply nothing listed at all because it’ll validate the suspicion of a gayop.
 
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I think something to take into account here is that for traditional media, their entire livelihood revolves around their ability to control the dissemination of information. That means as dumb as it sounds, sites like KF are a direct competitor and thus there's a significant conflict of interest when it comes to accurate reporting of stories like this.

Hell, even on an emotional level it's got to sting when you're some useless journalist getting paid to write half assed bullshit while there are entire groups of randos online doing better more thorough research and producing more reliable information without getting a cent for it, especially when 90% of those people hate you.

Of course that's also why people shouldn't cooperate with journalists: they generally already know what narrative they're going to present before they start doing any research, so kind of like talking to the police after you've been taken into custody opening your mouth can only give them more ammunition to use against you.

Andrew Neiman said:
How huge of a persecution complex must you have to equate someone writing an unfair/inaccurate article with "the nobility of old"? This isn't 1789 and you're not being boiled alive for heresy; try to come back down to earth for a second. Fantasizing out loud about how you want to kill people for disagreeing with you just makes you look unreasonable.
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Whoa shit, wouldn't want to risk appearing unreasonable here on the intellectual debate forum Kiwi Farms.

Besides, in the real world discourse has nothing to do with reason, it's just about how many people you can get to agree with you.
 
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Bloitzhole said:
There's a reason bloody peer review exists and some journals are more respected than others. I'll trust Nature, the APA and Lancet and I'll choose to doubt any blanket statement about whom not to trust. 'cause trusting noone but yourself's just about as retarded as trusting everyone. The US mainstream media ain't the world and its retarded politics and whatever way they influence the anglo journalism doesn't matter for the journos I consider credible, so another "nope" on blanket judgement there. Nothing's as simple as black and white.
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Nope. The Lancet ran that article early in Covid where the data was made up. It was about hydroxychloroquine showing no benefit. The fuckers were paid by every high priced pharmaceutical company on the vaccine maker list. The Lancet took 3 weeks to retract the article but by then the US et al had already banned its use for treatment based on that fucking article.

I could give similar examples involving the other journals you mentioned, but I think I made my point. Science is political now.

Lancet retraction

Retracted too late article

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Lot of the misinformation from the media comes down to laziness more than anything else. A journo reads some other journo's lazily done piece and writes up their own article based on it, with another journo then reading the other pieces and doing his own piece based on the other pieces, and so on and so on until it can then be claimed there's a consensus in the news media regarding what really happened.

Even the video in the OP is from people reading a script to fill airtime like what they often get from CNN Newsource.

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You know Ron Pearlman was wrong.

War..war does change. It changed in the modern era to become less about "Completing an Objective" and more about "Nation Building forever."

But do you know what never changes?

Journalists, because Journalists are, have always been and will always be the worst scum on the face of the planet.
 
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