Thursday, September 12, 2024

Nuclear-Armed Ex-Colony Debate Fails to Reassure World

Yesterday Patrick Gathara of Al Jazeera wrote about the presidential debate in the way the American press tends to describe the rest of the world. The televised face-off between the leading candidates for US president amplified widespread concerns over the state of democracy in the troubled North American nation.

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Do I agree with all of the characterizations of the column? No. He gets over his skis a bit at times, detracting a bit from what it otherwise wonderfully biting satire. But he's also not wrong about most of it if you're being objective, and some of it is downright hilarious.

Always a good reminder that (a) the way we, as a country, think of the rest of the world is pretty ignorant and condescending most of the time; and (b) America is not exceptional, no matter how hard everyone here insists that it is.

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Nuclear-Armed Ex-Colony Debate Fails to Reassure World

I was confused at first when I read the headline, trying to figure out who it was referring to.

LOL! We really suck!

#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-09-12 04:02 PM

Sounds like a Onion headline.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-09-12 04:12 PM

We live in Onion World.

Fish don't understand what water is, Or what life on land could be.

Americans are immersed in BS every day... from Birth.

They Can't Handle the Truth!

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-09-12 04:16 PM

Americans are immersed in BS every day... from Birth.

They Can't Handle the Truth!

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer

Here's your rubles comrade.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-12 04:24 PM

The only thing in there that was wrong was the whining about Putin puppet Jill Stein not being in the debate.

#5 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-09-12 05:49 PM

Four rogue nations-I only saw one.

#6 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2024-09-12 06:34 PM

What a joke of an article! Al-Jazeera LOL! I jeer-a at your propaganda, and written by a college freshman, apparently!

#7 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-09-12 10:28 PM

AI. Bet you 20.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-13 12:40 AM

Al Jazeera did nothing wrong inpublishing that; Americans shoukd read it and push for leaders who want to solve problems. We can fix our democracy but it is hard when ome of the two major parties hares democracy.

#9 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-13 03:44 AM

Was this article a bad translation from another language into English? That's how it came off to me. Or someone who spoke English as a second language.

#10 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-09-13 11:11 AM

They Can't Handle the Truth!

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer

Speaking for yourself you may be right.

You wouldn't know the Truth if it bit you in the tRump.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-13 11:26 AM

well i'm sorry i read.

last two paragraphs:

[b] Further raising the stakes, the Caucasian bloc is home to four rogue nuclear-armed nations " the US, United Kingdom, France and Russia " which are in violation of their commitment to disarm under Article VI of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. There are concerns over what would happen should these weapons fall into the hands of white-wing Christianist groups.

In the coming weeks, the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will begin in the nearby city of New York, and during the high-level week when heads of state take to the podium for the general debate, how to rebuild faith in democracy in the US is expected to be high on the agenda. Given the failure of the internationally recognised Biden regime to enact crucial electoral reforms to prevent a repeat of the 2020 fiasco, the UNGA may be the last chance for the world to help save the US from itself and put the long-suffering American people on a better path to peace and stability.[/b]

"indeed, overly simplistic, old news repuked.

#12 | Posted by ichiro at 2024-09-13 08:24 PM

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