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> A delightful take from a non-Western newsmonger, using the language the West uses when analyzing corrupt far-flung lands Author has a vast megathread on Twit
by Freaky 5y ago
> A delightful take from a non-Western newsmonger, using the language the West uses when analyzing corrupt far-flung lands
Author has a vast megathread on Twitter using similar language: https://twitter.com/gathara/status/1351038226581118986 https://twitter.com/gathara/status/1351038226581118986
"Winter storm batters huge swathe of covid-ravaged, politically troubled US, as it struggles to emerge from deadly coup amid dire humanitarian crisis that has killed nearly 500,000 and left one in seven households, including 18 million children, without enough to eat."
- adventured 5y agoThe joke is obviously on the author. Nobody in so called far-flung lands would have confused the January 6 riots for an attempted coup. And the US press would never have used language like that for such a riot, which featured so little weaponry and organization (up against the global military superpower). Putin has been protested against many times, the US press doesn't call the protests attempted coup attempts. People in far-flung nations can tell the difference between a riot - where, for example, the rioters were recorded on video being intentionally let into the government building in question - and an actual coup attempt. It's only domestically where a small group of politically motivated people are so wildly irrational or ignorant that they don't know the difference.