• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Funny that just last week an American was shot in the head, executed by Hamas, and there wasn’t an Intercept article mentioning it. Maybe it’s just not fashionable to be outraged about it, and it wouldn’t get enough clicks.

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      5 months ago

      People expect terrorists to shoot innocent people in the head. They don’t accept it when people claiming to fight terrorists shoot innocent people in the head.

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        5 months ago

        I would hope that if you are any kind of US citizen, you would not be happy about it either. There are forest and trees, but you only see one.

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          I’m not. I’m also not cynically using it to whatabout in favor of a genocidal apartheid state like you’re doing.

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          We only fund one of these warring terrorist groups. Do not see that difference?

          Our taxes paid for the killing of a US citizen.

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            5 months ago

            So the Intercept is triggering you with this death for a purpose of government funding, while ignoring the other? IDK which is worse and it is what I said originally. Shame these young people died, but in one case we know what happened, but in this case we don’t.

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              5 months ago

              So the Intercept is triggering you with this death

              Just ignore it if it makes Netanyahu look bad!

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              5 months ago

              so you dont see the difference between us killing one of our own and someone else doing it?

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                5 months ago

                Both are dead.

                We didn’t kill anyone. We don’t know the facts, that’s why the US State Department is investigating.

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                  US State Department is investigating waiting for idf to investigate.

                  It’s almost been a year of Israel indiscriminately killing in the area and the state department still refuses to do an investigation. Still waiting for Israel to investigate themselves.

                  But yeah sure. We’re totally gonna do something other than fund and supply weapons

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                    This has nothing to do with the finding of fact as to how this woman died

                    In fact,it’s not true. First, let’s ignore the fact that this woman apparently from small arms fire which we don’t supply to the Israelis. Congress wrote a bill to supply other weapons to Isreal. to Isreal. It was unable to put restrictions on sale. That left it in Biden’s lap. Biden asked State to evaluate how the Israelis were using weapons as it pertains to standing US law. The result was that State could not find a legal reason not to supply.

                    You can have your own feelings on the matter, but not your own facts

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      Are you actually claiming there was no media coverage of the murdered hostages?

      There is a very good argument that the role of non mainstream news sources, like the Intercept, it to shed light on the news that mainstream media doesn’t raise.

      If the CNN was blasting 24 hours the news about this American being shot, I’m pretty sure the Intercept would not bother either.

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        Just an observation on the nature of media and events. The Intercept is hardly mainstream. Instead of reporting facts it produces outrage purposed dribble, and this is a good example. In this case, those facts are not determined, and the US State Department is seeking them. That’s the way CNN reported it anyway. Should this turn into an Ashli Babbitt situation, the Intercept will not report it and it will not be here because it won’t suit the fashionable narrative.

        On a side note, I wonder what this story has to do with US Politics. Although I do see a mod in the string who should be able to explain that, but probably won’t