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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•'Hetero Awesome Fest' planned for Idaho capitol during LGBTQ Pride MonthEnglish41·1 month agoYou don’t need to answer that question. It’s bullshit.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•'Hetero Awesome Fest' planned for Idaho capitol during LGBTQ Pride MonthEnglish42·1 month agoNice anecdote. How about you give some data for that instead of making people tell you their anecdotal ages?
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Jews Have Religious Right to Genocide, Says Israeli Supreme CourtEnglish132·2 months agoSigh. This was already explained by someone else. It’s called cynical sarcasm, (or bitter sarcasm, rhetorical provocation, hyperbole, provocative irony, etc.) It’s meant to express outrage by drawing an extreme comparison, not agreement with it. The “just made” phrasing is part of that - they don’t actually think history was undone and revised, and its a bit disingenuous or outright obtuse to interpret it that way.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Jews Have Religious Right to Genocide, Says Israeli Supreme CourtEnglish312·2 months agoMaybe you’re misunderstanding DarkCloud’s comment? DarkCloud is not saying Hitler was right. DarkCloud is saying the Israeli supreme court just ruled that Hitler was right, and that doing that is completely fucked up. Which I think you agree with.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Biden Recalls Seeing ‘Colored Kids’ on Bus During First Major Speech Since Leaving White HouseEnglish382·2 months agoA bit clickbaity.
Reminiscing about his childhood in the Pennsylvania city on Tuesday, Biden said, “I remember pulling in, pulling into the parking lot and I had never seen– I had never seen hardly any Black people in Scranton at the time, and I was only going on fourth grade, and I remember seeing the kids going by, at the time called colored kids, on a bus going by.”
He recalled, “They never turned right to go to the Claymont High School. I wondered why, asked my mom, ‘Why?’ She said in Delaware they’re not allowed to go to school, in public school, with white kids.”
Emphasis mine. He was trying to make a point about how they were treated differently.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO InterestEnglish2·2 months agoBased on how this has gone somewhat viral, it seems like a lot of people are having trouble with it.
I skipped over it at first too, but was suspicious of the language and when I saw CWWN described as “authoritative” I stopped reading and started trying to figure out where it was coming from lol.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO InterestEnglish2·2 months agoLook above that. It says the full text is a reprint from a Soviet newspaper. The line you’re quoting as being confirmation comes from a Russian/Ukrainian newspaper, not the CIA. The hint is the “authoritative” in the description of “Canadian weekly world news”.
SUBJ*SUBJ: PAPER REPORTS ALLEGED EVIDENCE ON MISHAP INVOLVING UFO
TEXT TEXT: // ((REPRINT FROM THE NEWSPAPER TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: “COSMIC REVENGE” – FIRST PARAGRAPH PUBLISHED IN BOLDFACE)) ((TEXT ) AFTER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DISSOlVED, IN 1991, THE KGB TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION, A lOT OF MATERIAL FROM THAT DEPARTMENT FOUND THEIR WAY ABROAD,’ IN PARTICULAR TO THE CIA. AS REPORTED BY THE AUTHORITATIVE MAGAZINE CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, *U.S. INTELLIGENCE OBTAINED A 250-PAGE FILE ON THE ATTACK BY A UFO ON A MILITARY UNIT IN SIBERIA, THE FILE CONTAINS…
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO InterestEnglish21·2 months agoIf you mean “confirmed” in that it shows that the CIA knew this article had been written and kept a copy, then yes.
Or if you mean they are confirming the contents of the article, well yeah, I guess they are confirming that this russian(?) newspaper wrote about an article some tabloid rag wrote, then yeah, I guess that’s true, too.
But if you’re saying they’re confirming the contents of whatever the Canadian world weekly news might have written, then no, not by any means is this file a confirmation of that.
CWWN made up a story that involved soviets; Ternopil Vechirniy picked it up and wrote their own piece on it; the CIA kept a copy. That’s it.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO InterestEnglish6·2 months agoUh, Canadian Weekly World News was like the Inquirer. Edit: maybe I’m remembering the name “The Inquirer” wrong, but in any case it was tabloid schlock
This is a made up story from the 90s.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Donald Trump suggests US could join British CommonwealthEnglish26·3 months agoThe USA can join the Commonwealth by becoming a Territory of Canada. Just give us a sec while we change the rules on representation in the house of Commons.
There’s only one article on this site and then some “Lorem ipsum” text. A bit of a sus source.