I'm so fucking sick of today's media climate. It's not just that we're only exposed to biased news speaking to our base. But today, we're effectively shielded from reality. Unless we make an active effort to see other points of view. And this is harder than ever. Because Youtube and Facebook are invisibly filtering out the stuff you should see, in favour of the stuff you want to see. It's like everyone is delusional at the same time. And we have no way of knowing who's the most delusional. Is it me? Who the fuck knows?!? This is in a time where we have more access to correct information and fact checking than ever before. But how the fuck do you fact check stuff if it's unclear what needs to be fact checked, and what fact checkers are reliable?
I noted early last week that the Zelenskyy flying out to meet with Trump for the mining agreement sounded "suspicious" (this is before the meeting). Having Zelenskyy fly out to Trump was passive-aggressive.
Then they decided to hold a public meeting with everyone... before the signing? WHY?! There is absolutely no reason for that.
Finally, Zelenskyy is being trolled, he roles with it, but then VP Vance goes for it all, when he suggests "diplomacy". VP Vance's statements were trolling, lies, and intended to incite a reaction. This is extremely unusual for the VP to be the attack dog in person. Zelenskyy notes that Russia violated diplomatic agreements already... and then Vance pulls the emotional derail. Trump doesn't really get going until Zelenskyy makes the note of VP Vance speaking loudly. That is what triggers Trump? This is wasn't triggering, this was all intentional. They dragged Zelenskyy out to DC so as to create this public spectacle.
What makes matters even worse, as noted above is just how Web Board that conversation went. Then Trump suggests Zelenskyy doesn't want peace, when Trump noted one of the benefits of this mining deal was that Zelenskyy could "fight on".
