Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by titzer on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:35PM (#43211560)

It's a cultural problem that we let so much bullshit slide. America has come to love the spectacle, and loud wrong people can make quite a show.

In a just society, there'd be a price to pay for lying. Free speech has consequences. Be loudly and persistently wrong (even when corrected by actual experts with real facts) and you get penalized with turning down the volume. But it's the exact opposite in today's media atmosphere.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by llamaimperative on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:29PM (#43212530)

Totally agreed, just not an easy thing for intelligence agencies to fiddle with/defend.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by titzer on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:56PM (#43212857)

Sure, that's not their job. It's the cultural shift we've allowed in the face of an overwhelming onslaught on our attention span.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by llamaimperative on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:41PM (#43214101)

I agree… I was responding to GP who said it’s surprising that the IC has been “incompetent” at mitigating it. I believe, like you, it is not a job for the IC.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by UltraSane on Saturday March 01, 2025 @01:10AM (#43216457)

Alex Jones, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Joe Rogan are the four horsemen of the disinformation apocalypse.

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