10-04-2024, 09:48 PM
I have no argument to add except that "we" do it too... obviously... so what does that say about what we have been 'told' about their numbers?
I'm not inclined to defend or attack anyone where the only way I know of the situation is from either of them... used to be that journalism offered a less biased view... but that's over, so all sources are suspect... as none of them can be relied upon to simply tell us what is happening without an obligatory judgement embedded in it.
Too many lies made worse by too many lying questions... and no authority to ask without being lied to somehow.
All I hope for is no more death, destruction, and platitudes.
I don't know, and can't guess what the people of China, Russia, Ukraine, or any number of other countries in troubled time are going to do. I can guess about what their leaders might do, but I can't judge the people by what their leaders do... I could judge their leaders, I guess... but then it becomes that whole game of personalities which I hate... it makes for too many tropes, and too many clichés from supporters and antagonists.
I'm not inclined to defend or attack anyone where the only way I know of the situation is from either of them... used to be that journalism offered a less biased view... but that's over, so all sources are suspect... as none of them can be relied upon to simply tell us what is happening without an obligatory judgement embedded in it.
Too many lies made worse by too many lying questions... and no authority to ask without being lied to somehow.
All I hope for is no more death, destruction, and platitudes.
I don't know, and can't guess what the people of China, Russia, Ukraine, or any number of other countries in troubled time are going to do. I can guess about what their leaders might do, but I can't judge the people by what their leaders do... I could judge their leaders, I guess... but then it becomes that whole game of personalities which I hate... it makes for too many tropes, and too many clichés from supporters and antagonists.