• MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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      1 day ago

      I suppose liberal in the old sense of the word, but Sky News is explicitly right wing. Used to be Rupert Murdoch's.

        • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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          1 day ago

          I know in Marxian terms that liberal encompasses almost our entire political system today - that is laissez faire liberal economics, or who Marx often referred to as liberals - the sort of faux Enlightenment 'rights of the individual' old liberals (Whigs... I guess).

          But the definition has shifted in the mainstream to mean supposed 'social' liberalism ('supporting' LGBT, wearing a kente cloth as a white person, supporting the bare minimum tax/benefit proposals) - social liberalism that does not challenge the economic order of things. In the modern sense, Sky News is not liberal.

          I know we like to be strict with our definitions, but I think calling Sky News liberal is a bit confusing - for Americans particularly - because iirc Sky is a British and Australian thing, whereas America gets Fox first hand, rather than through Sky. They're pretty explicitly right wing, and the right does ally with Nazis closer than liberals, even if when it comes down to the wire liberals support fascism over communism.

    • huf [he/him]
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      11 hours ago

      ahh, this takes me back...

      [Chorus:]
      Hitler was a sensitive man [x4]

      He went to art school when he was younger
      He wanted to be a painter
      Hitler was a vegetarian
      He was also a non-smoker

      [Chorus]

      He hired gay and handicapped officers
      He was concerned about overpopulation
      If Hitler were alive today
      He’d listen to The Cure, The Smiths, and Depeche Mode

      [Chorus]

  • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Yeah he changed it for the worst so wtf is this headline even saying??? I swear lib journalists have been injected with some brain-damage juice during training

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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      1 day ago

      Not liberal. Sky was owned by Murdoch until very recently. It's pretty explicitly right wing.