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> The discussion was not about benevolence, or honesty, but of free press.

yes my point exactly. Are you suggesting the press in the US isn't 100% propaganda both on the left and right?

> You make it sound like you would like the world to fall into a black and white good guys/bad guys hollywood formula.

not at all. I dislike that idea and much rather we all live with less but instead get along. But it's much worse: it's not a future scenario, but we're already there! Whether you look at US, UK or any other place in the West identity politics distracting from the biggest money grab/heist in history (on the back of the poor as well as whatever is left over from a middle class). Just look at the divide among people in the West (in their own countries).

The press feeds on that negativity and is very much guilty of maintaining it. There is nothing to be proud of when it comes to our press! Speaking of the US specifically instead of the West, the majority of people there is too poor to afford feeding themselves without 2 or free jobs, nobody there got time to worry about complex problems and how well a story was researched. They're perfectly happy with bite-sized outrage and identity bullshit not caring about some "foreign wars" when they don't know if they can eat tomorrow or whether their children will be debt slaves for the rest of their days. Free press doesn't exist if people don't listen to them and rather tune into FoxNews, Breitbart, Infowars (and CNN on the other side of the spectrum).



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