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2 hours ago““I’m crazy about coffee. You know what? I’m crazy about my people,” Netanyahu tells the aide.”
Oh, man, he was so close!
“I’m crazy about coffee. You know what? I’m crazy about my people,” Netanyahu tells the aide.
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15·2 hours agoThe Fourth Estate specifically refers to the press as being independent of government operations. It’s pretty much what the first amendment is about.
So no, an article talking about what the press is doing or failing to do is not necessarily political.
Now, an article talking about, say, Bari Weiss being in the tank for Trump, that would be appropriate for !politics@lemmy.world as there’s a direct connection between the news reporting and US Politics.
Go back to the article Squirrel had removed and find the political angle in it.
Same thing on the corporate article. Yes, we get it, corporations are bad. What makes it political? Where’s the policy or politician directing them? Oh, right, not there. Just corporations being evil. Not politics.
I don’t think they’d give up their US paid universal health care. 😉
Lets try to keep this simple since I see you can’t keep up.
!politics@lemmy.world is specifically for US Politics.
You posted this story:
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-replicating-its-gaza-war-tactics-lebanon
It was removed and you were directed to appropriately post it in !world@lemmy.world where it belongs.
I want you to go over that article very carefully and point to me where it states the US is in any way involved in the invasion of Lebanon.
You can’t, because it doesn’t.
For example, like this one:
That is something that COULD be posted to !politics@lemmy.world as it specifically indicts a US politician and is directly related to US politics.
Again, not a function of US POLITICS.
When US politicians get caught lying that’s absolutely fair game for !politics@lemmy.world and it’s a delight every time!
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/26/politics/george-santos-admits-embellishing-resume
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/portland-national-guard-trump-lies-doj.html
https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/05/did-trump-just-get-caught-in-another-massive-lie-appears-so.html
6·3 hours agoYour “heritage” lasted 4 years and ended 161 years ago.
Once it’s set up, it can’t be changed and I didn’t set it up.
I agree though, should be US Politics and World Politics, US News and World News.
That way the folks who don’t care about the US Death Spiral don’t have it inflicted on them.
I TRY to keep that stuff out of !world@lemmy.world but then we go do stupid stuff like Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland, Canada. (sigh)
First - 100% props for dammed/damned. Chefs kiss!
The problem is that US politicians are absolutely blind when it comes to Israeli war crimes. I personally know people in Southern Lebanon impacted not just by what Israel is doing there NOW, but what they have been doing there, Jesus, going back to the 90s through multiple illegal occupations.
All the politicians see is “Hezbollah attacks Israel? ZOMG! More money for defense!”
Ignoring the fact that, the reality on the ground is, they will kidnap a doctor in the middle of the night, tell him if he resists, he will be shot and killed, haul him off to treat a prisoner with no compensation, and then dump him on the side of the road like so much trash when they no longer have a use for him.
That’s a true story from the brother of one of my close friends. The difference is, I have the decency and common sense to blame Israel for it, not the US.
It’s Israeli policy to bulldoze homes, not US policy:
Wrong analogy.
Someone tells you “Hey, someone has been breaking into my house, stealing things and breaking up the place.”
“Gee, that’s awful, you know how to fix that? Shotguns. Here you go!”
Then they go down and shoot up a school.
You didn’t tell them to shoot up a school. You helped them with a legitimate need.
The problem is they come back to you and go “Damn it! They broke in again!” and you provide them guns again hoping, beyond all hope, that instead this time, maybe THIS time, they’ll actually use them to defend their home.
Nope, this time they shoot up a hospital.
But their illegal use of the weapons is not what you authorized or intended.
It’s literally the first line on the sidebar:
- If the goal is to restrict posts to us politics, why aren’t you using a com like /us_politics?
Good question, the community was set up before I was brought on board, I can’t say why they set it up that way, simply that it is.
- If the goal is to restrict posts to US politics, why don’t the impacts of US foreign policy or reports on domestic coverage of US aided foreign wars not count as pertaining to the US?
Unless the news article specifically points to US policy or political action, it doesn’t belong in Politics. This isn’t six degrees of separation.
World exists for non-us World news.
- US taxes are paying for Israeli bombs used to genocide Palestinians. How is that not related to US politics?
Because no US politician or policy authorizes the genocide. That’s an Israeli war crime. The US provided funding for legitimate defense, not genocide.
You can see what they THINK they were funding through sites like this:
https://www.ajc.org/news/what-every-american-should-know-about-us-aid-to-israel
Now, you and I both know Israel isn’t ACTUALLY using the funding for that, but that’s on Israel.
As I said in another post, the funding was done in good faith, Israel is using it in bad faith.
People hate it when you explain what does or does not go in specific communities. 😂
LOL Israel isn’t the 51st state… yet!
Huge difference for the people who legitimately believe Israel has a right to self defense. The problem is they also can’t recognize that Israel moved to offense ages ago.
The funding was provided in good faith, it’s being used in bad faith. That’s the difference.
US Politicians are not directing the media or corporations to take these actions. It is NOT politics.
If you have to get out your red yarn to explain why it is, you lose the argument.
When an article specifically links US and Israeli policy, it is fit for Politics.
If there is no specific link between the two it goes in World.
I don’t see how it can be possibly be clearer than that:
Please review the posts you had removed and explain how these are, in ANY way US Politics:
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-replicating-its-gaza-war-tactics-lebanon
Any mention of US personnel? Policy? Politicians? No? Goes in World. Not Politics.
What the US media does or does not do is also NOT politics. Again, appropriate for World, not Politics.
Similarly, what US corporations do is not Politics. World please.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/there-no-ceasefire-gaza
You are correct, there is no cease fire in Gaza, who is doing the shooting? Israel.
You are wasting time arguing here instead of re-posting to !world@lemmy.world as I repeatedly encouraged you to do.
I’m sorry, but it’s absolutely not. Look at the posts Squirrel had removed:
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-replicating-its-gaza-war-tactics-lebanon
Any mention of US personnel? Policy? Politicians? No? Goes in World. Not Politics.
What the US media does or does not do is also NOT politics. Again, appropriate for World, or News, not Politics.
Similarly, what US corporations do or do not do is not Politics. World please.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/there-no-ceasefire-gaza
Correct, there is no cease fire in Gaza, who is doing the shooting? Israel. Not US Politics.
They were told repeatedly where the posts were appropriate and chose to argue instead of simply re-posting in the correct community.
Please review the posts you had removed and explain how these are, in ANY way US Politics:
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-replicating-its-gaza-war-tactics-lebanon
Any mention of US personnel? Policy? Politicians? No? Goes in World. Not Politics.
What the US media does or does not do is also NOT politics. Again, appropriate for World, not Politics.
Similarly, what US corporations do is not Politics. World please.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/there-no-ceasefire-gaza
You are correct, there is no cease fire in Gaza, who is doing the shooting? Israel.
None of these stories are remotely similar to stories about US mercenaries taking action in Gaza. That’s why they were removed from Politics.
Absolutely agreed, but that doesn’t make Israeli war crimes a topic for a community exclusively for US politics.
Post up a story about the US House and Senate voting to fund or de-fund Israel? AIPAC swinging US elections again? Sure.
Israel committing war crimes is World news not US politics.
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