that is profoundly ignorant

who are you telling to fuck off? if your family was also wronged by Japan why would you say that?

Does it bother you the coverage is “queer liberal does something wrong” when Republicans poisoned this major funding bull?

no not really, I think it’s completely fair to single someone like this out 🤷

It’s something Marco Rubio has been pushing for years and he was nominated for a cabinet position, so I guess he gets rewarded with this

I didn’t realize the loading thing worked on archived articles too, thanks

Actually I just put the link in and it still has the giant this is not a paywall thing that doesn’t let you scroll past it there too

Ty

I think if most people read VOA they would start thinking about American propaganda differently, when it’s done by MSM it’s a lot less crude than what VOA is pumping out, funnily enough they are one of the few places to have a mastodon account

https://mastodon.social/@VOANews

they also publish in like 50 different languages

https://www.voanews.com/navigation/allsites

VOA is analogous to any other state media ie RT, CGTN (not debating that VOA’s credibility/accuracy vs them)

it’s reporting that aligns with the interest of a certain business/political class that is funding it and most Americans would rather just read corporate MSM media than American state affiliated media so they don’t bother reading it

I doubt it means anything will change, but I think he is signalling that this specifically is an issue that he doesn’t really care about which is diverging from the wider Trump 2024 campaign, he almost certainly will still throw his support behind bans from the military and bans of trans youth care