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"Tankies tell me the "capitalist media" is hiding the truth from me. Asking what, specifically, is a bannable offence."
(lemmy.world)
Original Post:
I asked, concisely and simply, what was being hidden from us. Most of them just berated me, one user claimed the Syria conflict to which I provided a link to a recent UN Statement on which quite accurately reflected the conflict start to finish. Another user claimed that the recently declassified Nixon era documents about the Chilean revolution and coup, but I was able to find a 1973 archived Newspaper accusing the Nixon Admin of having a hand in it from New York Times, meaning it was already a mainstream theory at the time.
"No you see, I found this one article hidden in the UN website that the western press wrote 1 single article for which wasn't put on their socials or on their front page. They do tell the full story!
What? The 400 articles telling the opposite narrative are evidence of the opposite? Preposterous!"
The lie on page one and the correction six weeks later on page thirty-nine cancel each other out!
I can almost kind of appreciate the western media apparatus in a kind of Machiavellian way sometimes. It's just so well set up to deceive people while keeping people thinking they are more well informed than literally everyone else on the planet, layers and layers of obfuscation and misdirection.