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Re:U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, ... by r00fus on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:09PM (#15502009)
> It paints a vivid picture of the media consistently doing the government's* bidding by painting our mass murdering allies as heroes, while massively amplifying minor crimes committed by those we consider enemies

Not to normalize the atrocities but I think you can generalize and say that we should expect any government to be doing the same. The issue with the US is purely the hypocrisy.

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Re:U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, ... by Udik on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:27PM (#15502152)
No, the issue with the US (and other western countries) is not an absolute one (the level of hypocrisy). It's a more personal one: we are the targets of their propaganda, and we believe at least some of it.

Looking at a distant country denying its crimes when they're denounced daily from the pages of our newspapers might be unnerving, but doesn't affect us. Knowing that part of what we actually believe, or our own news sources tell us, is propaganda, is much more enraging.

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