Cosmonauts arrive at space station in yellow and blue

Re:Cosmonauts arrive at space station in yellow and blue by qiskit on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:43PM (#30736465)

Cosmonauts are wearing almost entirely yellow uniforms and the media is twisting that as support for ukraine? If that doesn't show you that media is all propaganda and how desperate they are to latch onto anything, nothing will. Maybe yellow is zelensky's favorite color and they did it to honor zelensky. Left out of the article was any mention of the cosmonauts building an altar to zelensky on the space station. Maybe that'll be in tomorrow's news.

The propaganda during the iraq, afghanistan, libya, syria, etc wars was ridiculous. But the over the top absurd ukraine propaganda takes the cake. Everything from using video game footage as war footage to this. Unbelievable. And so many people just blindly accepting it.

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Re:Cosmonauts arrive at space station in yellow and blue by lolinder on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:51PM (#30736556)

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I'm not saying there's not propaganda from both sides, there obviously is. But this and the video game footage are readily attributable to the shoddy state of ad-funded clickbait journalism today, which is a separate issue from intentional propaganda.

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Re:Cosmonauts arrive at space station in yellow and blue by qiskit on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:57PM (#30736614)

> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

But when the "stupidity" always leans in one particular political direction, it's difficult not to attribut malice to it.

> But this and the video game footage are readily attributable to the shoddy state of ad-funded clickbait journalism today, which is a separate issue from intentional propaganda.

Not seeing how it is separate from intentional propaganda when it was done intentionally for propaganda purposes and it was spread all over news and social media for propaganda purposes.

You say obviously there is propaganda on both sides ( which I agree with ), but then you excuse this away...

I'm starting to like this aphorism better ...

"Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice".

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Re:Cosmonauts arrive at space station in yellow and blue by vanattab on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:26PM (#30737718)

>But when the "stupidity" always leans in one particular political direction, it's difficult not to attribut malice to it.

Does it really though? There is plenty of stupidity to go around.

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