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    4 days ago

    What does that even mean? The Iranian government is a government. By definition it’s more than just a “propaganda source”.

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      News from the Iranian government is, de facto, propaganda. They aren’t going to tell the truth about themselves or their enemies.

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        Funny how you never feel that way about western state media. Or private western propaganda outlets. You only care when someone disagrees with your pre existing beliefs.

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          Oh, no, I regularly remove trash blog nonsense from Blogspot and Substack all the time. Fox/OANN are right out, so are the British tabloids.

          Junk sites are junk sites regardless of hemisphere. But that’s not what we’re talking about here, we’re talking about state sponsored bullshit sites.

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            I said Western state media, why the fuck are you talking about Blogspot or Substack or British Tabloid you dishonest fuck?

            But that’s not what we’re talking about here, we’re talking about state sponsored bullshit sites.

            Oy, shithead, you were the one trying to shift away from state media.

            fox/OANN are right out, so are the British tabloids. Junk sites are junk sites regardless of hemisphere.

            Oh look at that, non of the junk propaganda outlets that align with your ideology are included, those are all given a special parse. It’s only the ones that oppose you.

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              No, there are sites that oppose me that are perfectly fine because they don’t engage in bullshit.

              National Review is kind of the gold standard when it comes to conservative reporting, I don’t AGREE with them, but they aren’t removable the way the bullshit sites are.

              https://www.nationalreview.com/

              (Bonus - not state owned media either, but I don’t think William F. Buckley Jr. would recognize the current government as either Conservative or Republican, he would be horrified at what’s become of his party.)

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                he would be horrified at what’s become of his party

                Oh yeah, I’m sure the racist McCarthyist religious extremist would be horrified…

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                  I think it’s less that and more the conservative financial angle. If somebody told him the Republican party would be cheering a plan that adds $3 to $6 trillion in debt, he’d be apoplectic, if he didn’t just outright die on the spot.

                  Those kinds of numbers would be just alien to his generation of conservatives.

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                    What the fuck are you talking about? Are you completely ignorant of American history or are you just lying?

                    Knowing you, I’m assuming the latter.

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                Lol. The only example of a site you disagree with that you will allow is one that’s just a very slightly different flavor of western chauvinist neo-liberal? Are you fucking serious?

                Like, mate, this is just a straight up admition that you don’t accept anything that seriously opposes you. (And you’ve already admitted that you’ll happily slurp down sources that absolutely do engage in bullshit so long as they agree with you, including National Review.)

                William F. Buckley Jr.

                A right wing lunatic and a literal CIA agent… No wonder you like him and his propaganda outlet.

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                    “all Western Media is the same”

                    No, that’s you talking about any media opposed to the west.

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                    Again, I specifically said I don’t agree with them, just that they don’t spout bullshit the way Fox/OANN/etc. do.

                    They do though, it’s just bullshit that you’re hypocritical ass finds closer to what you agree with, so you give it a pass.

                    You can’t compare National Review to say, I dunno, Alex Jones or some crap. Not even the same UNIVERSE.

                    Yeah, you agree with one of them and not the other, which is the only standard you have. Because you a hypocritical toad.

                    But you’re blind, “all Western Media is the same”, got it. All Putin aligned media is welcome to feed you their cock all day, every day. Got it. .ml in action again.

                    Damn, you’re really just running odwn the list of zionist shitheel stick replies; we’ve go the “you’re blind”, we’ve got the fake quote that I didn’t say, we’ve got the grossly homophobic remark about Putin, we’ve got “but you’re from .ml!”: It’s a Zionist bingo in one line!