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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25204954

This is on my front page now and is almost entirely a critique against the MSM.

At the same time that article is also accusing the USA of helping mass murder of communists, two very dear "progressive" themes, so they let it pass.

These aren't accusations, even the US now admits their role in the massacres.

That's not the point, isn't it? Of course the accusations are probably true, but what about other serious accusations about mainstream media, about mainstream democratic politicians about Y-Combinator in particular and the SV culture in general? Will they be treated with the same attention?

It's a political piece about regime change ops that highlights phrases like "... U.S. backed authoritarian capitalist regime ..." and "... Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program ...".

This isn't a critique piece against today's MSM. It's a piece that makes the point that the US is the evil force in the world today. You can feel that way and have arguments about that. That's fine and fair. But it's certainly not an example for critique against the MSM in the context of today and this discussion.

> makes the point that the US is the evil force in the world today

What made you use that choice of words? Where are you from?

Probably the Title: “ How the US Used Disinformation and the ‘Jakarta Method’ to Change the World “

>The Jakarta Method is a 2020 non-fiction book by American journalist and writer Vincent Bevins. It concerns American support for the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66.

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