MeanwhileOnGrad

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Meanwhile On Grad

Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!

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Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.

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Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

Oh well to be fair that is a US propaganda outlet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

all fake news is propaganda, some fake new is US propaganda, Radio Free whatever is US state department sanctioned propaganda targeted at foreigners similar to Russia today or whatever sheepooh is running for CCP

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RFE/RL

Additional considerations apply to the use of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). RFE/RL should be used cautiously, if at all, for reporting published from the 1950s to the early 1970s, when RFE/RL had a documented relationship with the CIA.

RFE/RL may be biased in some subject areas (particularly through omission of relevant, countervailing facts), and in those areas, it should be attributed in the article body. There is no consensus as to what subject areas require attribution. The scope of topics requiring attribution of RFE/RL should be decided on a case-by-case basis.

It hasn't been true for some time now and is generally found to be credible and fairly unbiased and RFA is seen in even a more positive light:

Radio Free Asia can be generally considered a reliable source. In particularly geopolitically charged areas, attribution of its point of view and funding by the U.S. government may be appropriate. Per the result of a 2021 RfC, editors have established that there is little reason to think RFA demonstrates some systematic inaccuracy, unreliability, or level of government co-option that precludes its use.

And MBFC:

In contrast this is what RT looks like:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It hasn’t been true for some time now and is generally found to be credible and fairly unbiased

And I have a bridge to sell you. It’s as much a CIA cut-out as it ever was.

And MBFC

MBFC is shite. Of course it’s going to give RT a worse rating than RFE: It’s run by an American physical therapist as his side gig.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

And I have a bridge to sell you. It’s as much a CIA cut-out as it ever was.

Source

MBFC is shite. Of course it’s going to give RT a worse rating than RFE

You're a tagged Tankie. Cult followers angry at an org calling out their dear leaders' propaganda outlet calls it "shit". Next up, water is wet.

If you think it's shit, then provide credible sources to backup your claim.

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