• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    Everyone needs to know the places they get their news from.

    You mean like how you frequently post from an outlet (this one) that refuses to disclose its ownership or funding source and is widely believed to be funded by the Qatari government? Or is it different when it’s you?


    Edit: Totally mixed up users. Straight-up my bad.

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        Well yes. I was Qatar the whole time, funding Jibril Wales’ government mouthpiece.

        Obviously I’m talking about Middle East Eye if you want to be a smarmy, obtuse shithead about it while dodging the concern you have no response to.


        Edit: Totally mixed up users. Straight-up my bad.

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            Oh, sorry. I was mistaking you for pete_link. There’s no good explanation for that; just a total brain fart. Sorry, pele. I have to take the L on that; crow eaten. And I do, for what it’s worth, appreciate you calling out Axel Springer. The owner is a massive piece of shit, even if e.g. Politico is quite reliable for US politics. I just saw it as severely hypocritcal because, well, I thought you were pete_link. Because I was being a dumbass.

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                I deserved worse for this, so I appreciate you giving me more dignity than I gave you. You learn pretty quickly on Qatari astroturf farm Wikipedia to accept that, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you’re just inevitably going to be the stupid, confidently incorrect fuckface, and you don’t stick around long if you can’t adapt to that. You cope with it, I think, by fully internalizing that you have to hold yourself accountable in the same way and to the same standards you expect of others because doing otherwise rots your own behavior, your ability to set realistic, useful expectations, and your position to call out others if you think they’ve been negligent.