Mike Nelson

MMC captain, fishing guide, Banana Slug

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@RaoulMartinezTV No more excuses!
Good morning Raoul!

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@ICEgov

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@then0toriousjtb The responsible thing to do was to not torpedo Sanders who would’ve beaten Trump in ‘16.
Then in ‘20 they forced a senile genocide enabler on voters. When that gig was up, Harris doubled down on arms for Israel when an embargo would’ve won her 3 swing states. Sit the fk down.

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@davidsirota Dems will double down on Cheney.

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@RaoulMartinezTV How many championships you got? 🤣 Good morning Raoul.

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@OceansidePD Maybe instead of me trying to understand the helicopter flying over my house you could update this?

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@elicalebon @ZannSuz “Awkward hand gesture”

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@RonFilipkowski Surly voting for ongoing carpet bombing and genocide would’ve led to a Palestinian State.

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@dkevrafox2 There’s always the frozen tee shirt trick!

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@HeerJeet “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?
Here’s the smell of the blood still:
all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” -Lady MacBeth

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@Bubblebathgirl @cenkuygur Nothing says too far left like a Cheney endorsement.

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@BernieSanders Yet you endorse them every single time.

[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.

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@Davidlaz But he’s not wrong.

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

“She has not proposed to seize the means of production.”

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@jimmy_dore Sanders and AOC are right of center. Get up to speed.

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@RyanWaltersSupt You live in the second dumbest state and this is your focus? How about those three Rs?

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@RyanWaltersSupt Hey you may be among the dumbest and poorest states, but you ain’t woke goddamit!

[Mike Nelson @nelsonoregon]

@JRubinBlogger @RadioFreeTom It’s almost like the Democrats should run someone who can win.