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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I said it was from a biased source, not that it was wrong, but if you want to see an example of why it’s bad compare the death count in the CNN report vs. this one. It’s not “thousands” gunned down, even according to Hamas:

    The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said 104 were killed and more than 700 injured in the incident, one of the deadliest since the war in Gaza began.

    It also includes IDF statements which paint a very different picture of events:

    In an initial account, Israel said Gaza residents surrounded the aid trucks and looted the supplies. “During the incident, dozens of Gazans were injured as a result of pushing and trampling,” the Israel Defense Forces told CNN.
    An Israeli military spokesperson later said in a briefing that there were two separate incidents involving aid trucks.
    First, he says trucks went to the north and were swarmed by crowds, with trucks running over people. Subsequently, he says, a group of Palestinians approached Israeli forces, who then opened fire on the Palestinians.
    “The truckloads went into the north, then there was the stampede, and then afterwards, there was the event against our forces. That’s how things transpired this morning,” the spokesman said.

    I don’t believe anything offhand from such a source, especially on matters regarding Israel, nor should you. Stick to credible organizations if you prefer objective reporting to emotionally charged propaganda.




  • This source is heavily biased against Israel. I wouldn’t trust them for news regarding this conflict.

    While it demonstrated a clear opposition to Israel and the West, The Cradle did not appear to weigh in on other topics relevant to right-left U.S. politics. Site searches for “liberal,” “conservative,” “right-wing,” and “left-wing” yielded few results.
    However, The Cradle frequently cast “far-right” Israeli politicians in a negative light. While the reviewer noted that this was likely due more to the region’s specific politics than any alignment with U.S. partisan polarization, The Cradle’s clear anti-Israel stance made it difficult to justify a Center rating.
    The reviewer noted a general trend of coverage sympathetic to Arab Muslims and suspicious of Israel and the West. This could be seen in The Cradle’s extensive coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict, which often highlighted faults by Israel. Notable headlines included “Israeli police unable to verify ‘Hamas rape’ stories,” “Israel defender Alan Dershowitz named in Epstein court docs,” “Michael Hudson: A roadmap to escape the west’s stranglehold,” and “‘Unprecedented’ surge in West Bank settlement activities.” The Cradle also published interviews with representatives of militant groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Middle Eastern politicians like Iraqi ex-PM Adil Abdul-Mahdi.





  • Your perspective is distorted, things are incredible and getting better by most metrics.

    • The average person today lives better than kings of old.
    • We have abundant water, food, and sanitation. In America, food is so subsidized that it is ridiculously cheap by historical standards.
    • Your odds of dying to violence or disease have never been lower in all of human history.
    • You have all human knowledge at your fingertips, and technology is expected to keep improving our lives in novel ways.
    • You can visit any place on Earth in a matter of hours and have access to cheap exotic foreign goods.
    • Civil rights are protected a lot more today than they were in many/most civilizations of the past.
    • Entertainment is abundant and cheap, and takes forms that people of the past could only dream about.

    While we certainly have our challenges to overcome, like climate change, wealth inequality, and social problems, let’s not forget how good we have it.


  • Your perspective is distorted, things are incredible and getting better by most metrics.

    • The average person today lives better than kings of old.
    • We have abundant water, food, and sanitation. In America, food is so subsidized that it is ridiculously cheap by historical standards.
    • Your odds of dying to violence or disease have never been lower in all of human history.
    • You have all human knowledge at your fingertips.
    • You can visit any place on Earth in a matter of hours.
    • Civil rights are protected a lot more today than they were in many/most civilizations of the past.
    • Entertainment is abundant and cheap, and takes forms that people of the past could only dream about.

    While we certainly have our challenges to overcome, like climate change, wealth inequality, and social problems, let’s not forget how good we have it.