Darcy

EIC at @ProgressBarAU.

[Darcy @dmax3901]

Expecting a good, reasoned debate on this one #StellarBlade

[Progress Bar @ProgressBarAU]

With @StellarBlade, South Korean developer #ShiftUp asks "What if NieR: Automata was less interesting and more horny?"

https://t.co/KoD0As0b3d

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

we need a leftist Sebulba

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now official policy: No Palestinians will be allowed to live in N. Gaza https://t.co/hFQEvKl8RP

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

here's someone who's taken as much grief from as many sides as anybody and just won again because she's ideologically consistent and her voters know exactly who she is

[Polluxery @Polluxery]

It saddens me how such an imaginative and creative show struggles to get a season 2, this is one of those shows that's gonna be cited as a main inspiration for movies and games 20 years from now, it's peak sci fi.

[Hbomberguy @Hbomberguy]

If Trump loses Musk is going to kill himself live on X, the everything platform. Consider this my endorsement of a candidate

[Rose @rose_jlab]

i'm often saying this!!

[olivia stowell @oliviastowell]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Turning the conversation about Palestine into a question of "manners" or "tough interviews" is "bullshit" because "The topic is apartheid. Apartheid is the topic."

[🔶Coopsworth 👑 @Coopsworth]

Yo do you understand how BAD you fucked up that half a million people join your competitor immediately
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[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

Israel is currently burning people alive in their tents. This is happening right now. This will happen again tomorrow. This is Zionism.

This is what standing with Israel represents.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

“On 6 October 2023, there was quiet”

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You can’t even tell in the first headline that Israel is the one bombing Lebanon. The contrast in headlines is unbelievable.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Quick guide to war terminology

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Coates is obviously really smart but his morality is also so clear cut that anyone can understand it, which prevents him from being steamrolled by this bizarre hostility

[austin walker @austin_walker]

RTing this is the only contribution to palworld discourse i will be making