An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main goals it set when it launched an offensive last October by taking control of Laukkaing, a key city on the border with China.
Also, yeesh, that headline… Like, I’m sure if people wanted to do a deep dive into this topic the ethnic ties and traditions that are shared by these different rebel groups are important to understanding them and what’s going on here, but would it have killed the AP to describe them as “pro-democracy guerillas” in the headline instead of saving that one for the article and going with “armed ethnic alliances”? You start telling Americans about armed ethnic alliances and they’ll be demanding airstrikes before you’ve finished your sentence.
I swear, sometimes it almost feels as if news organizations don’t actually like democracy at all. They’re sure as shit doing an awful job of defending it in the US, at least.
I mean, I feel like the enemies of democracy want us to lose faith in the media because good journalists doing real journalism can actually hurt them, and I also feel like writing about complicated stuff for a general audience on a deadline is just really easy to screw up, so I do try to stick up for them when they’ve got it right or not assume the worst when they don’t, but yeah there are definitely some times I get that feeling too
The US constantly and persistently butts it’s head into foreign elections with millions of dollars in funding in one hand and CIA agentsthousands of unmarked weapons useful in a coup in another, and you’re crying about enemies of democracy?
The greatest enemies of democracy are the countries who lead the spread of democratic ideals today.
The problem is that the West has decided to associate democracy with liberal ideals… And then proceeds to support Israel, which democratically decided to not support those ideals.
Democracy and liberal ideals are not the same thing. One is not required for the other.
Fuck the Junta. All my homies hate the Junta.
Hear hear, fuck military dictatorships.
Also, yeesh, that headline… Like, I’m sure if people wanted to do a deep dive into this topic the ethnic ties and traditions that are shared by these different rebel groups are important to understanding them and what’s going on here, but would it have killed the AP to describe them as “pro-democracy guerillas” in the headline instead of saving that one for the article and going with “armed ethnic alliances”? You start telling Americans about armed ethnic alliances and they’ll be demanding airstrikes before you’ve finished your sentence.
I swear, sometimes it almost feels as if news organizations don’t actually like democracy at all. They’re sure as shit doing an awful job of defending it in the US, at least.
I mean, I feel like the enemies of democracy want us to lose faith in the media because good journalists doing real journalism can actually hurt them, and I also feel like writing about complicated stuff for a general audience on a deadline is just really easy to screw up, so I do try to stick up for them when they’ve got it right or not assume the worst when they don’t, but yeah there are definitely some times I get that feeling too
“enemies of democracy?”
The US constantly and persistently butts it’s head into foreign elections with millions of dollars in funding in one hand and
CIA agentsthousands of unmarked weapons useful in a coup in another, and you’re crying about enemies of democracy?The greatest enemies of democracy are the countries who lead the spread of democratic ideals today.
The problem is that the West has decided to associate democracy with liberal ideals… And then proceeds to support Israel, which democratically decided to not support those ideals.
Democracy and liberal ideals are not the same thing. One is not required for the other.