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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How can the IDF claim that they have precise intelligence and still kill majoritly civilians?! They are monsters!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

When everyone is considered a terrorist, you can't ever miss!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really don’t understand how Israel are beyond reproach by the MSM.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Main stream media as the other person said, but I’m as far from far right as one could get.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

You’re welcome.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Main-Stream Media. Usually used by the far right to refer to centrist publications/broadcasters.

Edit: not intending to say that the GP is far-right, and I completely agree that it makes no sense for anyone to support Israel here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is some proper sneaky way of trying to undermine the OPs point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I don’t really see how that undermines anything, I just explained the abbreviation and mentioned how I mostly see it used. The only group I see screeching about how the “mainstream media” is biased against them is the far right.

Most people agree on which news orgs are “mainstream media”: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/07/broad-agreement-in-u-s-even-among-partisans-on-which-news-outlets-are-part-of-the-mainstream-media/

And an article on the topic of alleged bias: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/07/1115949410/republicans-have-long-feuded-with-the-mainstream-media-now-many-are-shutting-the