I want to delete reddit but I like following worldnews and politics to get a general feel of what's happening. Yeah it's all libshit but my radicalization is a fairly new development

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There is a bunch of stuff that other people have mentioned but really you don't have to and probably shouldn't just read those and nothing else. Mainstream outlets that aren't on the completely wack side of the mainstream like Reuters are fine to be read critically, it's just that you have to know that in certain topics it's gonna be nonsense and you should look at what the leftist outlets are saying about the same topics.

      Also redfish doesn't quite have news exactly but it has nice updates and short videos on stuff happening all over the world.

      • Nyarlathotep7 [they/them,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Oh for sure, I don't plan on just reading news to reaffirm my beliefs. It's just that I have only been exposed to mainstream media so other than Jacobin, I didn't really have a place to see news with a left-bias. Also I've run into the issue where lots of the news sites I currently use straight up don't mention things that don't cater to to the US. Like you said tho anything must be read critically

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Oh yeah Jacobin is one decent outlet, another is redfish as I said but that is not quite a news outlet, just a fun thing for updates on various stuff, some smaller blog type stuff, Le Monde diplomatique is decent, some other stuff in other languages... Things like Grayzone etc you should be careful with because while they often have great stuff they're also pretty much propaganda and while they can be useful as such, they won't always really say what's going on or anything like that. For instance, the Nagorno Karrabakh invasion was a pretty big thing that happened recently but all Grayzone had about it was some article about how it made the Syrian mercs that Erdogan used sad or something. Grayzone is focused more on promoting Russian foreign policy so of course they're not gonna care much to cover the whole thing. There is a similar obvious bias with stuff like Telesur but they are generally better than the mainstream American shit.

          • Nyarlathotep7 [they/them,comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Huh, I didn't know that about Grayzone, thanks for the info then. I'll check out redfish too, world news is one of the things I'm trying to learn more about so sounds useful.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Is that the one that defended Weinstein?

        Edit: yep

        A partial guilty verdict was achieved through subjecting the jury pool to a torrent of media filth and creating an intensely hostile climate in the courtroom, aided and abetted by a trial judge who manipulated the proceedings in such a manner as to prejudice the jury and ensure Weinstein’s conviction.

        The testimony of the three principal witnesses, Annabella Sciorra, Mimi Haley and Jessica Mann, was full of inconsistencies, gaps and implausibilities. Each of these women maintained long-term and friendly relations with Weinstein for years following the alleged attacks, asking him for jobs and favors, not indicating in a single email or text they were his victims.

        :what-the-hell: