Oh I understand the other good they do, so I’ll never condemn them but they won’t ever recieve money from me.

Hell if I’m in the car I still put them on, but my trust in them is greatly eroded. I wish their coverage had remained centrist, but it really seemed completely tuned to justifying the conflict not providing the facts

NPR largely lost my support after the way they covered the Palestinian genocide.

I’ll never forget them running a story after the attack in Israel by Hamas. They interviewed a Jewish family in an affluent town in upstate New York. Emphasizing how afraid these wealthy Americans were. The children made it sound like Hamas would crawl through their windows at any moment. It was ridiculous.

They reversed a bit now that public opinion, and that of their audience, soured on the conflict, but it changed my view on their news significantly

“The man in the photo mimicked the sound of herding sheep, treating Palestinians like his livestock.”

Per the photographer

Fellas is it anti-semetism to do journalism?

You need the recent context from the news. This is clearly referring to a piece ran by an Italian newspaper that photographed a Israeli “settler” or soldier (unclear) in the westbank.

Not the original article but here:

https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2026/04/15/JLFWIAKWU5H2XCY77YP4EETBHQ/

As you can see the hairstyle and yarmulke are spot on and accurate to real world events.

The teeth are exaggerated both to characterize the image, as lets admit that’s not a very usual grin, and to emulate Cleetus a Simpsons character.

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Cletus_Spuckler

That is why the teeth are messed up. The use of Cleetus is intentional to point out how fucking backwards Israeli is in its “settlement” policies.

So yeah in the context of current events this is not a “minstrel poster”.

I mean MAGA is mostly made up of Protestants/Evangelicals. There was kinda a whole thing about thinking the pope was wrong

Many of the regions are at least partially claimed by native peoples

What’s always got me about that is how big is a piece of broccoli?

Yeah I don’t know what this guy is talking about. I grew up in a very rural very republican part of a southern state and I sure as shit never heard anybody call anybody a Pharisees.

Or at least not outside of a church

Idk man maybe we can just start with not having a pedophile and convicted felon as president and go from there.

I think it’s best to say they used to be able to, but not anymore.

Trump has also gutted the military command structure and filled it with his goons. The equipment is still there, but those that know how to effectively use it are gone.

Maybe he’s running an absolutely stupid overbuilt ventilation system

You also get to be a major religious figure to Bajor

Maybe i should buy a digital alarm clock. Would probably help start my day faster

Voted against him, protested, made my plans, and got out of the US.

I’m fundamentally opposed to everything that criminal is doing. Unfortunately my power to change his regime is limited.

Doesn’t have much to do about slavery as a punishment for a crime.

Nows the part where you get upset because I haven’t personally started an armed rebellion right?

Which is why I am against that too.

I would be okay if it is offered as a choice. Either you go sit in jail for the same number of hours or you go do community service. Equitable and not forced labor.

The way a people’s government is shaped and interpreted is a direct result of the collective experience of that culture

I mean 70 years ago the entire Korean peninsula was directly shaped by like 6 foreign powers into what it is today.

Still don’t see how that green lights slavery or how any of this is relevant to the issue I’m discussing.

I fully understand how different cultures form and operate. I even have a degree to back it up, but I’m not going to have an anthropological or sociological debate on slavery. Slavery is never fit to be a punishment for a crime. That is what I am talking about. Why do you keep trying to drag it from that topic?

I pass judgments on all governments when it comes to violating human dignity.

You try to make this a race thing is fucking weird. I’m judging a government’s actions not the entire population of South Korea.

And when it comes to human rights I take an absolutionist stance on morality. Slavery is never okay

You must understand the American South had a unique history and people which led to the way they…

You’re defending slavery here. It’s the same problem with the US system.

I’m not saying prison time isn’t warranted, just that slavery is not an appropriate form of punishment or rehabilitation.

That’s the tricky part about having morals is they extend to people I don’t like like this guy.

Oh wait a minute I only heard about the statue bit, the deepfakes does change my mind a bit. It’s certainly not victimless in that case. I’m still not comfortable with 3 years, but more than 6 months seems more appropriate in thay case