Was waiting for Adam to say something, anything, on Ukraine.
When it comes to "taking sides" CN is usually silent, only commenting on media idiocy rather than expressing ideological sentiment. If only more journalists could actually adhere to that principle.
I think they're a lot more radical than they let on, so its for the better.
I don't know what pod you guys have been listening to, but my :citations-needed: is explicitly anti-US empire
Yeah absolutely. Their faux-neutral NPR tone helps keep them approachable for libs and makes them one of the best baby leftist's first podcasts for people who haven't really gotten over all the brainworms, but it's still fairly easy for the rest of us to read between the lines.
Oh yeah, they definitely are. I think the most I’ve seen the mask slip was when they critiqued “do you think Israel is a legitimate state?” with “no states are legitimate.”
literally only known to a few dozen people on the entire planet
i don't think you can run a modern nation state like that, not even in presidential systems like the US or Russia where executive power is nominally concentrated in one person. you can't keep that many people in the upper echelons of government (also military, intelligence, finance and industry) in the dark about what is really going on without making your nation inoperable and highly vulnerable to that one guy in charge having a bad day. so i'd say that take reeks of "secret puppet master cabal" brainworms and / or a severe case of great man theory.
Idk I think he's referring to the current status and objectives of the war on the ground, and it's probably only the top military and executive brass who review the compiled reports and make decisions on them. Add up the military and intelligence personnel who compile those reports, and I don't imagine it's much more than 60 people per side who have the most detailed (but important) bits of info
A few dozen with all the facts and thousands with the piece they need to play their part.
It's how corporations work under capitalism. Division of intellectual and physical labor at work
Adam can have little a overly wordy vocabulary as a treat
No, you're wrong. It is Fartpoo.
Source: I work at the Washington Post
This doesn’t seem right but I don’t know enough about Washington Posts to dispute it
rather than couching it in high minded, ostensibly neutral"fact checking"
The greatest trick liberalism ever pulled was convincing the world it isn't an ideology
:thinkin-lenin: hmm...
I think I can get behind this. seems reasonable. I think.
