Claes de Vreese ☑️As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index.
The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@claesdevreese Ah, but, the gammon response would surely be to claim that whoever drew up that list was a woke conspiracy so the list itself is fake news.
Professor_StevensHere in America, all criticism from foreign sources is considered dismissible as envy. Indeed, a lot of my neighbors see such criticism as actually flattering.
Worth noting their details are a bit aged. It says, "The US government continues to pursue the extradition of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who remains in detention in the United Kingdom." He's in Australia, having pleaded guilty with sentence of time served.
@Professor_Stevens @claesdevreese Envy of what? The guns? The lack of health care? The lack of holidays? And that was before Trump. Which did they have in mind that we should envy, I wonder.
Martijn Tonies ✅ 🧷@TimWardCam the opening of The Newsroom is still valid. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxdaU9AsnU
@Professor_Stevens @claesdevreese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxdaU9AsnU
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The Newsroom Speech by Jeff Daniels (with subtitles)
@mt @Professor_Stevens @claesdevreese Hang on ... I've only just realised ...
If MAGA gammons think that America is already the best country in the world, then it's already "great", no?
So why does it need to be made great again?
Flic@TimWardCam @mt @Professor_Stevens @claesdevreese depends if you're measuring its greatness against all those communist countries in Europe (unbeatable) or against a made up version of America from roughly the 50s where racism was ok but minorities liked it and sexism was ok but women were happier at home anyway, and mediocre white men got all the plum jobs and mostly just drank and smoked at the office while their secretary typed their letters.
@TimWardCam @mt @Professor_Stevens @claesdevreese of course Britain has a version of this which is why we had to vote to "take our country back". Turns out it's very difficult to make your country "back" into a thing it never was, though
@Flisty @TimWardCam @mt @claesdevreese
I watched Brexit fairly closely (as much as one can, from over here). I think hearing the phrase "repatriation of power" is when I realized the United States has no monopoly on shameless right-wing bullshit.
Say, how has that worked out? Is there a general mood in the UK about whether or not Brexit was a good idea? Or is it all now just in the past?
@Professor_Stevens @Flisty @mt @claesdevreese Population surveys show that most people think it's crap. But these are still divided between those who knew it was crap to start with and those who now say "this isn't the #brexshit I voted for" (it is, of course).
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"this isn't the #brexshit I voted for"
Without a plan that the leave-side was going to following, how can you tell?
@mt @Professor_Stevens @Flisty @claesdevreese The only legally possible #brexsbit was a blind #brexshit, where what you got was what you got. And that's what they knowingly voted for. So *anything* that resulted would have been the #brexshit they voted for.
@TimWardCam "brexit is brexit", I remember.
As useless a phrase as could be.
@mt @TimWardCam @Professor_Stevens @claesdevreese it does demonstrate the value of stupid slogans to shut down conversations though. Anti-Trumpers need one. "Returners" in the UK need one.