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It’s fulfilling its role as media of publishing information that would ordinarily be used for accountability: Trump is doing something else than he promised he would.
Not every article has scope to show the human consequences behind decisions.
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Is your username No More Yanks? As in no more Yankees?
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No, that’s not what I mean.
Encouraging political accountability is a key responsibility of the media in a democracy. These reports help voters, watchdogs, and parliament to exercise their role of holding politicians accountable. Admittedly, this is an imprecise process and this system is not functioning well in the US at the moment. Still, the media must keep (and improve) reporting on items where political accountability comes into play.
In this case it’s a clear cut case of breathing campaign promises. It’s important to report on this because it’s relevant to those who voted Trump into office.
The media should also report on the consequences of those strikes, the human suffering, the destabilisation that it causes etc. However, this might not be information that Trump voters find relevant. However wrong this may be.
It’s fine if you’re arguing that this angle is being underreported by Salon and other US based media. I expect this could well be that this is the case, but I don’t know as I don’t live there. All I’m saying is that the editorial choice not to do so in the same article.
would anyone like to take this opportunity to say that kamala wouldnt have been any different? I offer now as the time to do that
Schodinger’s Cat… She never became President so the presumption that she would be equally as bad will never be proven.
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“Almost more”?
air strikes on what???
Anti-War President
How could the Democrats do this to us?!?
Exactly what I was thinking. I remember talking to unhinged so-called “leftists” in 2015 and 2016 and if they weren’t going to vote for that sockpuppet Stein, they were going to vote for Taco because he’s “for peace” and “Hillary was going to start WWIII”. Weird how all this shit parrots exactly the talking points Putin was trying to get out there…
These dipshits are some people I know IRL, and in the years since it’s gone two ways - either they don’t even admit to saying any of the inane and stupid bullshit they were saying in 2015/16, or, they voted for him AGAIN because “he didn’t start any wars”. The first group doesn’t say who they voted for, usually, meaning - they voted for Taco again, or they threw their vote away by petulantly voting 3rd party or sitting out.
JFC. And these people range from boomer to Gen Y; even in 2015 this shit should not have been new to them. I think I understand how Hitler came to power a lot better now - a whole lot of apathetic dumbasses that believe that just because they don’t care about politics, that politics won’t care about (and come for) them, but also a whole lot of whiny ass babies not doing the right thing because they were not given a pretty pony and whispered sweet nothings.
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This headline got you writing all that. Now go and see how many airstrikes Biden paid for with your tax dollars and who the victims were.
Trump used American pilots, Biden just have weapons and money to Israel to destroy Gaza.
That will teach those gEnoSiDe JoEs to mess with the non-voting left!
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Literally everything this guy does makes me realize how much a shut human he is but also how fucking brain dead his supporters are. Good work you stupid fucks, good work
Good news - it never gets better, only worse.
Wait. Okay, . . . what’s the opposite of good again?
That is an insane number.
“Almost more” seems nonsensical. Is it almost equivalent?
Are rates and ratios just too difficult? 529 in five months is much higher comparatively than 5** in four years.
Like, you could just say Trump has done airstrikes at more than 9 times Biden’s average so far.
Some people think he should win a Nobel Peace Prize.
By some people, I mean him.
Netanyahu mostly
