Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proudly and embarrassingly declared that he only "speaks American" while in a room filled with leaders from Latin America.
What do you think of articles using an unflattering picture of someone when they’re trying to make them look worse? Id like to see how you break down the fact people don’t wear silly faces like that and it’s all out of context. This goes deeper than people realize.
For me the use of cherry picked photos like that is a big red flag about the absence of Journalistic integrity of that publication and that shit (as well as a lot of other slimy Propaganda techniques) is all over the place, especially (but not only) in the Press in Anglo-Saxon countries.
I follow the Principle that people should be judged by their actions, and Principles apply to everybody indepently of their political color, so I abhor misportraying of a situation by people closer to me politically just as much as I abhor it when done by people far from me politically - if you put your principles aside for some political colors but not others, then they’re not really principled and instead you just have principle-sounding slogans you use in politics.
And to address your first part, I do analyse any shocking pictures in the same way and with the same skepticism (the bigger the claim the bigger the proof required) - for many it’s not hard to figure out alternative explanations which have a high probability. You can tell if it’s a true skeptical analysis like I try to do or just denialism like many people do for political ends by 2 things:
Do they do it always to “protect” one political side but never a different political one?
Do they use low probability possibilities to dismiss high probability ones? For example, claiming that Musk was doing a “from my heart to you” movement rather than a “NAZI salute” when he did his salute, TWICE, in the Republican party conference - in terms of probability based on context, his past comments and even the details of the salute, the “NAZI salute” was a much higher probability explanation than any other explanations put forward by people who seemed more driven by liking him than anything else.
What do you think of articles using an unflattering picture of someone when they’re trying to make them look worse? Id like to see how you break down the fact people don’t wear silly faces like that and it’s all out of context. This goes deeper than people realize.
I totally agree.
For me the use of cherry picked photos like that is a big red flag about the absence of Journalistic integrity of that publication and that shit (as well as a lot of other slimy Propaganda techniques) is all over the place, especially (but not only) in the Press in Anglo-Saxon countries.
I follow the Principle that people should be judged by their actions, and Principles apply to everybody indepently of their political color, so I abhor misportraying of a situation by people closer to me politically just as much as I abhor it when done by people far from me politically - if you put your principles aside for some political colors but not others, then they’re not really principled and instead you just have principle-sounding slogans you use in politics.
And to address your first part, I do analyse any shocking pictures in the same way and with the same skepticism (the bigger the claim the bigger the proof required) - for many it’s not hard to figure out alternative explanations which have a high probability. You can tell if it’s a true skeptical analysis like I try to do or just denialism like many people do for political ends by 2 things: