Had to write Ground News over this “center biased” article today. Really disappointed in this. At least they have it as “mixed factuality” but to say that this isn’t extremist to claim courts trying to hold people accountable isn’t biased?? It would be one thing if it was about the need to defend themselves in court (which with what their officials and actions have made very hard to do) but it’s calling the court illegitimate! Might as well read “this system set up (in part) to hold countries accountable for crimes committed against their citizens and other countries shouldn’t have any power over me because I am the chosen country who can do no wrong!” If China called the ICJ illegitimate it would be plastered all of the news for weeks! But it’s the US’s little buddy the zionists so it’s the “centered position to take” that the court is in the wrong and whatever actions caused another country to say “what the fuck you cant do that” is unworthy of seeing a day in court. That would be like beating someone to death because they might know someone who hurt you (essentially what’s happening when they bomb refugee camps to hit Hamas) and when their family sues you for the act going “they deserved it because I someone they might have known the person who hit me and left me this bruise!” That’s how the bombing of schools and hospitals looks to me after the admittedly horrible acts of October 7th. I hope South Africa brings up the fact that the IDF and IOF have now had to admit that some of the deaths on that day they blamed Hamas for were actually their actions! I don’t like when anyone dies to violence but you can’t claim victim when you’ve caused more than 13 times the amount of total deaths on the 7th since the 7th. Ridiculous country. Ridiculous news cycles. South Africa I’m rooting for your case!
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i've seen so many youtubers i respect being sponsored by ground news, and conceptually i like what it's promising, but i'm extremely wary of any and all youtube sponsors.
do any of y'all use it or know people who do?
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Something about this feels dystopian
By dystopian, I mean the idea that media literacy is struggling to catch up to a lot of folks because the platforms change and algorithms make things easier is terrifying. It's cool that people can band together to make things like this but my skepticism is high with everything.
This seems good, almost too good. It makes me wonder who might be the target for this. Maybe older folks? Or maybe those who read news on their computer and phones?
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No no no, you know what REALLY doesn't smell right to me? The fact that we have apps promoting themselves as "unbiased news" in a way that implies left-biased news isn't the same as reliable, accurate news.
Mother Jones is rated highly factual. Jezebel is rated highly factual. Yes, mediabiasfactcheck.com brings with it the same inherent question of "Who's watching the watchers?" but still
What is it that you contribute, Ground News?
Because based on your advertising, it sounds like you offer little besides centrist pandering.
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so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.
first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.
it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.
and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.
you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.
and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.
your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.
in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.
in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.
so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.
you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.
once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.
and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"
you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?
hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!
you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.
we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?
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you know that arundhati roy quote that goes "can the hungry go on a hunger strike? non-violence is a piece of theatre. you need an audience. what can you do when you have no audience? people have the right to resist annihilation” but now i realise sometimes your audience are just people who will witness your annihilation and simply choose to say that unfortunately your blood greases the wheels of the world and simply register the fact that they have witnessed and condemned your annihilators as their duty while disavowing any attempt you make at resistance. palestinian journalists can broadcast till the end of their world and it would not move the needle on this kind of audience.
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Family of Distinguished People.
So like what if, the Fenton family is just a family full of heroes, villains, and vigilantes. like.. just imagine a long line of people that had or has contributed to the world somehow. Like the Fenton parents as Supervillains, Jazz as a Vigilante, Danny as Hero. Dani just decides to travel not too interested, but does help with her family if needed, Dan does the same thing.
BUT WHAT IF joker is actually a close relative of the Fenton Family (ex. Uncle, Cousin,Family Friend) and like he's just there all happy with his (found)family during family reunions, birthdays and shit.
And the batfam are just like so confused and stressed to why the joker goes missing once a month.
While Joker is literally having a game of Monopoly with the elementary kids at amity park (the kids couldn't bother, they've saw scarier things they handled scarier things) cue Joker giving the kids a hundred dollars because he lost.
This is just one of my what if prompts, that i got locked up in a vault. Might delete this later who knows.
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Admittedly, my stance on Harleen Kaur is a bit of a witch-trial.
It is axiomatically true that unbiased, benevolent news can't turn a profit without compromising its integrity.
So...
Either (A) Ground News was always in the pocket of some bigger entity, and we will only realize in hindsight, years down the road, that this app was manipulating us to further a much more subtle political agenda.
Or (B) Ground News was sincere in its goals all along. But the only way they could ever convince me of that would be to run out of money and go defunct.
If Ground News is righteous, it will die. If it doesn't die, then it was always representative of some nefarious power and shouldn't be trusted.
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