• BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 months

    The news reporter wanted a feel good puff piece regardless of how inappropriate it is. The interviewee wanted to report the actual news.

    • Lupus@feddit.org
      3 months

      Careful with that quote, it’s by Kevin Alfred Strom a Neo-Nazi from an 1993 essay in the national Vanguard, a white nationalist publication and it refers to the antisemitic trope of world Judaism.

      I’m not criticizing you, just want to contextualize it because it could be misconstrued to be a antisemitic dog-whistle, especially in the context of the linked article.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        3 months

        It’s an axiomatic truism. It’s logic is self contained.

        To learn who is wet, simply find out who is in the water.

            • thesmokingman@programming.dev
              3 months

              You and I are in agreement; the user I responded to seemed to be implying otherwise.

              Edit: I think it’s a bit strong to say it’s “a literal white supremacist talking point.” Your average boomer is going to mistakenly associate it with Voltaire. I think folks that are some level below terminally online have seen one of the many pieces pointing out its origin. Away from the author, it could stand on its own merits which is why “kids with cancer” is a funny response to it. In the US, at least, I haven’t seen a lot of discussion from the white supremacists who run the government on this quote which further makes me question if it’s a literal talking point. Perhaps you are aware of groups that are actively pushing it? If not, it’s a bit more reasonable to say what the first response in this thread said. Be careful.

              • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
                3 months

                the user I responded to seemed to be implying otherwise.

                Not really. I’m just saying the quote isn’t particularly insightful upon analysis, source notwithstanding.

        • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nuEnglish
          3 months

          Is it? I haven’t studied philosophy (but I have studied math) - it seems to me that the Wikipedia article on Truism demands the statement to be true for it to be a truism. But it’s not true though?

          The way I see it, the statement can be construed as:

          I’m not allowed to criticize X -> X rules over me

          But, perhaps because “allowed” and “criticize” are subject to interpretation, there are plenty of groups you will be socially penalized for criticizing (see jokes about kids with cancer below the comment with the quote - I can’t figure out how to link to them). Many countries also protect minorities by making hate speech illegal, and yet those minorities are not ruling the country (though that’s probably exactly what the quote was originally meant to imply). If anything, the truism would be the ‘opposite’ implication:

          X rules over me -> I’m not allowed to criticize X

          Yet even this isn’t categorically true, like in democracies (which I guess brings in the interpretation of “rule”, as well).

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3 months

        Well, that just means he has experience ruling over people, and not allowing them to criticize him.

        That means it’s valid.

  • bagsy@lemmy.world
    3 months

    It really makes you wonder how these reporters are trained. What else can they not talk about on air?

    • Sundiata@lemmy.world
      3 months

      she smiles like the woman from ba sing se,

      the back in the 90s part screams body language of desperation to signal to him to play along and say what she wants him to say.

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    She was trying to do a fluff piece interview, and he was trying to drop hard facts. I’m glad he didn’t back down on his points.

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
      3 months

      Haven’t watched it but sounds like someone with strong convictions and an idea why things are the way they are. Hopefully eventually enough people recognize the fact that we need a functional society that allows the random person to feel comfortable. Cause if you get enough itchy people things get scratched.

        • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3 months

          30 seconds of sound when you’re pooping on the toilet at work, is 30 seconds too much sound. Hypothetically speaking.

          • modus@lemmy.world
            3 months

            You sit idly pooping while so much of the housing stock in the US is owned by hedge funds?

          • lobut@lemmy.ca
            3 months

            I’ve been next to lads in the stalls where they’re dropping bombs and on the phone on the same time. No shame. Barely stopped to grunt. Truly Gods among men.

        • orbitz@lemmy.ca
          3 months

          Pretty much I don’t care for random audio, I prefer text articles or comments to get the jist of things. I actually hate noise unless it’s for entertainment or another person (well sometimes I don’t care for that but polite society and all).

          A 30 second video would be a nice short article.

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
    3 months

    Crazy how fast she pulled back on that. Like she has been trained to not allow that sort of talk. It was almost instant.

  • commander@lemmy.world
    3 months

    As unhinged as social media gets, this is pretty much why so many end up trusting it over traditional media. The internet broke the veil of commercial reporting/journalism - media in general. Broke the trust on accepting public personas and not being suspicious of them behind the scenes. Sell out reporters/journalist/artists/etc are like scabs to labor strikers

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    3 months

    If the fediverse can focus on integrating content from from other fediverse sources extremely organically, the fediverse will win. I shouldn’t have to leave Lemmy to watch this video.

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3 months

      You need to leave? I could just watch it on the timeline. Using jerboa, I guess it depends on client.

      • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works
        3 months

        Woah, I’ve been on Eternity for quite a while and have heard about Jerboa a bunch in comments! Finally downloaded it based on this comment and sure enough, this video was the first thing in my feed and it even auto played silently on the thumbnail! (Turning that off immediately though lol)

        Thanks for the recommend!! ❤️

    • aka@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3 months

      It’s embedded for me ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

        • froh42@lemmy.world
          3 months

          Woah weird, I just watched it by clicking on it in voyager. Maybe something with the instance I’m logged in to?

          (Ok, voyager opens the loop link in an embedded browser window,)

            • froh42@lemmy.world
              3 months

              Ok, it sounded like you needed to manually open it outside. I agree it’s not perfect and can be improved , but it still works without needing to click too often.

    • ptu@sopuli.xyz
      3 months

      Are there some federated video sites? Most of the video results in duckduckgo are hosted by the tech giants, would be cool if there was some alternatives

      • night_petal@piefed.socialEnglish
        3 months

        PeerTube is the biggest player for fediverse video as far as I know. There is also Loops, which is where this video is hosted.

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3 months

      Huh? I watched it in the app (Jerboa) and it was no problem, I downloaded it too, and sync’d to my immich server, of course 🤓

    • chortle_tortle@mander.xyz
      3 months

      Did you have to leave on .world? I didn’t have to on my instance, but I don’t know exactly how all that works.

      In this case I’d say it’s especially good for the sake of loops rather than lemmy. Loops is quite a small platform, and looking at it now, this post has 23 likes and 2 comments. But two posts I’ve seen on lemmy, totaling ~800 upvotes and ~45 comments.

      Seems like pulling that info into loops would make it all feel much more lively, though I’m sure this isn’t insight to the already busy loops creator!

  • nexguy@lemmy.world
    3 months

    -“Snow is pretty”

    -“Mmhmm, so private equity owns…”

  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
    3 months

    She pulled back the microphone mid sentence when he refused to let the conversation get derailed.

    Very sus

    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 months

      Don’t worry, they’d make sure that clip of you’d never make it to air. 🫡