The "Putin murders journalists" line that every media hack now mindlessly parrots is, of course, lazy reductionism.https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-07/how-fair-is-it-to-call-putin-a-killer-as-o-reilly-did …
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Imagine if US journalists attributed every death which occurs within the US system to the president's personal whim. "Obama murders Afghans"
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I'm arguing that lazy US media hordes vilify foreign leaders using standards they'd never apply to the UShttps://twitter.com/Weishampel/status/884102810102575105 …
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Journalists are killed left and right in Mexico and its more dangerous to be a journo there than Russia. Does their President kill them?
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It's also less accurate. Reporters who criticize/expose Putin wind up dead b/c he orders the FSB to kill them.
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yes when US-made weaponized anthrax spores are sent out to 2 journalistic organizations and 2 politicians nobody here bats an eyelash
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also less accurate. The passive voice characterizes Putin as a powerless figurehead, and the murder of journalists as merely incidental.
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Hey you have to read this New Yorker piece:https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/883999983883735040 …
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Yes, and the US government prefers to mass murder any innocent peoples who are in its way for hegemony & profiteering for their corp pimps.
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Spot-on. The Russian state is very factional among higher-ups, especially "siloviki." Putin is only a part of the vast political machinery.
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By the way Communist China is a dictatorship that U.S. government has made major trade deals without getting any concessions on North Korea.
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That's a distinction without a difference
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it's amusing to think that Putin 'kills' critics/journalists but the most powerful empire the world has ever seen: the US does not
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