An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main goals it set when it launched an offensive last October by taking control of Laukkaing, a key city on the border with China.
I swear, sometimes it almost feels as if news organizations don’t actually like democracy at all. They’re sure as shit doing an awful job of defending it in the US, at least.
I mean, I feel like the enemies of democracy want us to lose faith in the media because good journalists doing real journalism can actually hurt them, and I also feel like writing about complicated stuff for a general audience on a deadline is just really easy to screw up, so I do try to stick up for them when they’ve got it right or not assume the worst when they don’t, but yeah there are definitely some times I get that feeling too
The problem is that the West has decided to associate democracy with liberal ideals… And then proceeds to support Israel, which democratically decided to not support those ideals.
Democracy and liberal ideals are not the same thing. One is not required for the other.
I swear, sometimes it almost feels as if news organizations don’t actually like democracy at all. They’re sure as shit doing an awful job of defending it in the US, at least.
I mean, I feel like the enemies of democracy want us to lose faith in the media because good journalists doing real journalism can actually hurt them, and I also feel like writing about complicated stuff for a general audience on a deadline is just really easy to screw up, so I do try to stick up for them when they’ve got it right or not assume the worst when they don’t, but yeah there are definitely some times I get that feeling too
The problem is that the West has decided to associate democracy with liberal ideals… And then proceeds to support Israel, which democratically decided to not support those ideals.
Democracy and liberal ideals are not the same thing. One is not required for the other.