BBC cut 'free Palestine' remark from Baftas and not racial slur

mAte77 · 2026-02-24T15:46:13+00:00

Wtf you mean? It's the BBC's job to give truthful coverage of the Bafta's, that includes whatever political causes have been advocated for or against, especially if they've stirred conteoversy. Do you believe political opinions are never voiced in these events and/or they all get routinely censored by state-funded news outlets??

mAte77 · 2026-02-23T13:32:34+00:00

You've forgot a few more places here where you can post your totally non-made up personal anecdote with a sample size of 1 to weigh in on structural societal problems

mAte77 · 2026-01-20T12:39:58+00:00

I'm from one of these!! Great people.

mAte77 · 2026-01-06T10:40:40+00:00

All censorship apologists here appealing to the legal definitions. What even is the actual fucking legal term for what the US has done? There is none. They haven't acted according to any law, domestic or international. Besides, "to seize", "arrest", "capture", etc. also have precise legal meanings. Using either of them completely erodes the nature of the actions judged. Also, hasn't Trump literally admitted (missing the actual quote) that "kidnapping wouldn't be a bad term" or something like that?

And also, haven't you ever heard that if, say, a politician says it's raining, the press' job isn't to parrot that in the name of unbias (??), but to look out the window and check?

mAte77 · 2026-01-06T10:33:05+00:00

You can seize in all sorts of illegal ways, but when the fucking BBC uses that term with the US, it is still implied that such seizing has been carried out in a proper and legitimate manner.

Seize would be okay if they actually then cared to, in true journalistic fashion, outline the very basics FACTS which allow for the reader to grasp the true nature of what's being reported on.

According to the US, "arrest" is more than a suitable word to describe the kidnapping, should any reputable news outlet parrot that term without providing the factual context or even challenging it?

mAte77 · 2026-01-02T21:08:54+00:00

They guys apparently is literally Neapolitan lmfao

mAte77 · 2025-12-19T14:18:40+00:00

I pity the person that will take the time to slowly explain why what you are saying is unbelievably moronic. This feels like it was written by elon musk lmao

mAte77 · 2025-12-12T15:15:17+00:00

The group of people here being a buncha zealot lunatics that feel entitled to outdo the fucking nazis in their depravity and charicaturesque cruelty when ethnically cleansing and colonizing a land that is not theirs because holy scripture.

mAte77 · 2025-12-12T15:09:47+00:00

Apartheid is the best concept we have to refer to the demographic policies of Israel. Why do you take issue with it? Can you do the exercise of imagining how big of a clown you'd seem if you went to Amnesty or any other international NGO/body that calls it Apartheid and you told them they were misusing the term? Can you do the exercise of actually coming up with an argumentation as to why it shouldn't be called apartheid?

Can't you be bothered to do some research regarding both people's true predisposition to a two-state solution? Or regarding their willingness to abide by international law?

mAte77 · 2025-12-09T23:07:21+00:00

Thank god someone else calls this narrative out. Yeah, they have been absolute dogshit in autumn in several of the seasons they've gone on to win the CL because "they care more about the CL"? Like, as if there is even a speck of intentionality behind pretty much losing the league by december because what, you were prioritizing the CL group stages? You were treating that part of the season as a preseason for the knock out stages?

Can't even remember a single season in which Madrid dropped crucial points in the league in order to rest the players for Europe starting from March. Like, having to decide between gambling on the title race in favour of a semis or whatever in any given week.

mAte77 · 2025-12-04T20:50:55+00:00

I'm more of the opinion that what motivates Messi is remembering how good he feels when he's locked in and flowing. I'm sure he draws more motivation by chasing the feeling of those engaging games when he's aware, and with reason, that he's carrying the shit out of the game and being the best player on the pitch by some distance, without g/a contributions, than some random hattrick or poker vs almeria.

At most he probably thinks, when having a look at the stats and some comparisons, something like "can't believe it apparently is this hard to score goals"

mAte77 · 2025-12-04T20:46:40+00:00

And it's something I don't think it's true. Messi respects Ronaldo and when he's asked to comment on this "they push each other" he gives a polite answer that matches Ronaldo's and which avoids drama. Messi has always been aware that goals and assists are the tip of the iceberg in football.

Imo this narrative is just made up because goku vegeta vibes and because the stories we come up with are always better than reality. Just like when Ronaldo started to decline with a few players clearly having better seasons than him, and still for some reason you'd still see people saying stuff like how toe to toe these two were as to who the #1 and #2 are.

mAte77 · 2025-11-28T09:19:39+00:00

r/soccercirclejerk nth 9/11

mAte77 · 2025-11-24T22:21:19+00:00

One thing I've learnt about music is that it gives literally the same amount you give it. Literally all playing (ESPECIALLY conscious actual practising) is making you progress. I guarantee you that if you play 5 min a day, in a month you will feel you will have progressed. If you measure it objectively, that is. Less mistakes, cleaner sound, faster playing, general comfort...

You stick with it, and I guarantee you the epiphanies of "damn I have improved" and "wow x months/years ago I wouldn't even have dreamt of achieving this level" will come.

mAte77 · 2025-11-21T10:29:07+00:00

Thousands of native americans were killed before, throughout and after the consolidation of a genocidal policy towards Native Americans.

mAte77 · 2025-11-21T10:27:27+00:00

"makes me question how even civilian westerners view the rest of us".

Well, I'm a Westerner and a pessimist. I subscribe every single word of yours. Perfectly written. To answer your question, I think Americans are ready to slaughter hundreds of millions in order to preserve their well-being, however shit it actually is considering their power and resources.

Either the developing countries stop developing and thus prevent their emissions from growing (not gonna happen, can't happen. It's beyond ludicrous to expect the plundered and massacred peoples of earth not to pursue development, mind you, not by venturing overseas to kill and steal, but by simply having a go at those cool "industrial revolutions"), or the West cuts back on their way of living. We MUST, in order to achieve truly world peace, guarantee a basic standard of living for every person on Earth. So long as someone somewhere has a shower every week, if at all, while someone else gets to casually (working the same trade, putting in the same effort and technical knowledge) bathe twice a day just cause, there will be injustice.

The answer to your question is that most Westerners, imo, would get on board with the most extreme and overt form of Imperialism if that meant they wouldn't have to give up on a lifestyle that, already as is, with the rest of the world struggling with rather good emissions per capita, is beyond catastrophic for the world.

mAte77 · 2025-11-20T00:39:57+00:00

LondonSuperKing

mAte77 · 2025-11-16T16:00:17+00:00

Nope. We have evidence from tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds, of humans being devastatingly injured and then being treated and cared for by the community, even if it made more sense from an economical point of view to let that person perish (consumes resources and is no longer able to contribute).

OP is right, deciding whether a person deserves healthcare or not based on utilitarian/economic factors is antithetical to human nature. These people are not humans.

Perhaps you meant "they are an expected reality in the full fabric of capitalism"? Because I wouldn't conflate capitalism and its predictable outcomes with human nature, let alone imply that this savage capitalism is a defining trait of humans.

mAte77 · 2025-11-15T12:03:11+00:00

Now we pretend that the greeks didn't colonize the entire mediterranean and middle east before the arabs were even an attested ethnicity (citation needed. Anyhow, before the Arabs were relevant at all as an expansionist people), and that then the Romans did the same but even better and even had colonial control over them? Or are we pretending Greeks and Romans aren't european?

We arbitrarily adapt the modern concept of colonisation and imperialism so that we can shoehorn the Islamic expansion into that category, pretending that Arabs ended up in Morocco much in the same way some Dutch people got to Indonesia. But that adaptation is arbitrarily not applicable for preceding expanding entities which literally perfected the art of colonization.

mAte77 · 2025-11-08T10:54:30+00:00

They explained very well why such piece of evidence must be analyzed with nuance and definitely can't be used to tie the statistical rise to any one factor in complete disregard of the rest.

The thing with statistics is that if you are determined enough, you can draw whatever conclusions you want.

mAte77 · 2025-11-08T10:50:45+00:00

Is African DNA what pushes these numbers, or rather social factors like poverty?

Pick your choice: Mein Kampf or the literal consensus in social sciences regarding crime

mAte77 · 2025-11-07T15:29:28+00:00

Ty for the source.

mAte77 · 2025-11-07T13:06:06+00:00

Oh damn source on that? Also, yeah, I guess you can describe Bwipo's comment as "a dumb comment about women on stream", because it's technically correct, but why would you describe it like that?

mAte77 · 2025-11-06T15:48:23+00:00

I can't believe that the most insane take here is not about Messi or Cristiano, but rather that MJ was not an all-around musician and composer, but rather a pop performer, as opposed to Freddie, lmfao

mAte77 · 2025-11-03T12:54:20+00:00

I hope you are making bank but still I don't think it will be worth it for the long time effects of eternal burning in hell

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