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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your entire argument was about the soviet union and its cold war relationship with the US. I have had it up to my nipples here on how fixated you all are on the US, I am not from the US, I don't like the US, I am sick of somehow having to explain to people who apparently think the US is evil but simultaneously think the world revolves around it.

WE GET IT YOU ARE AMERICAN AND YOU ARE DIFFERENT BUT LIKE MOST AMERICANS CAN NOT STAND WHEN SOMETHING IS NOT ABOUT YOU.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The quote is from "inventing reality by michael parenti". the cold war is an EXAMPLE, the authors POINT is that media will interpret literally ANY EVENT in a bad way to make enemies look morally inferior and bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Are socialist states immune from this fallacy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

But I am not media, the post I made is my honest take, and in this case the media stating this news is wagner and the russian state. How does this wall of text help me understand the apparent flaw in my statement?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

They are suggesting that you have learned to reason backwards from certain conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah connect the dots by yourself, you cant be this unironically oblivious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I can and very much am. Please put some effort into this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know what an example is? What about an analogy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why do you ask? I think you replied to the wrong post