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  • TL; DR: propaganda still works in the age of LLMs.
    by api
  • ...among the cultists.

    I'd say what's important is seeing how the American administration is embracing this stuff.

    by cyanydeez
  • The irony of this article being fully LLM-written
    by fxwin
  • A decent article... but what is this nonsense here:

    > This erased the continuous reality stretching back to 1948 the Nakba, which displaced over 700,000 Palestinians and depopulated hundreds of villages (Morris, 2004; Pappé, 2006), alongside decades of military occupation, settlement expansion, and a sixteen-year land, air, and sea blockade.

    The author himself erases things here, namedly the various attempts of Israel's neighbors to wipe Israel off of the map, or many Arab and African nations expelling their Jewish population (that often was there for hundreds if not thousands of years) to Israel.

    The conflict is murky enough as it is (and in fact dates back to far, far longer times, including the collapse of the British Colonial Empire that wrecked many other nations with repercussions to this day, first and foremost India/Pakistan), there is no need to act like one is neutral and then in fact be selective.

    Honestly, if there is no need to bring in the Israel/Palestine conflict into a topic (aka, you're discussing everything but the conflict itself), then just don't. It is far too complex, many points of view are determined by the timeframe one is considering... just don't. You will shoot yourself in the foot.

    by mschuster91
  • You lost me with this "Similarly, on World War II’s Eastern Front, the Soviet Union absorbed the catastrophic brunt of defeating Nazi Germany, losing 27 million soldiers and civilians (Ellman & Maksudov, 1994; Harrison, 2003). Yet modern Western consciousness treats that sacrifice as an awkward footnote, replacing it with Hollywood GIs storming Normandy."

    You know what Western Consciousness lacks? A clear information Soviet Union is directly responsible for starting WW2 by attacking Poland (my country) in concert with Hitler.

    There would be no WW2 if not for Ribbentrop-Molotov pact.

    Soviets indeed helped fight Hitler once he switched from being an ally to an enemy. If he didn't choose to attack them it would've never happened.

    Furthermore they enslaved the countries they came to "liberate" for 50 years and hunted the remainder of our army till 1960s. So forgive me if I do not consider them worthy of any praise whatsoever.

    by Roark66

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