Russia and Ukraine

[Deesse23]

Corporate media in the anglophone world are obedient spokesmen for the US military/industrial complex. It cannot be trusted. 

And here, ladies and gentlemen is "the crux", the core of Bels Problems with trying to understand what is going on in everydays political life.

#1 Generalisation
Some media certainly are, some arent. But he makes a sweeping statement. Makes life so much easier, to run around and paint with a broad brush....also if you are kind of intellectually lazy (like not looking up what kinda fuel a modern gas turbine can use, or who even designed this turbine)

#2 He says "...can not be trusted", which sounds very rational. You need to (cross)check, verify. But what he actually means is :"is always wrong, and therefore any other source which contradicts is right".
Again, if "his sources" claim that Chrysler designed the powerpack for the M1, why bother reading CNN? CNN is, per definitionem ("..obedient spokesmen...") an anti-russian propaganda outlet. Ergo: Anything that contradicts CNN must be "not anti russian propaganda", and thats what Bel is looking for, right?

He starts out with "i can not trust big, public and official outlets because they are ant-russian propaganda" and ends up, literally, quoting articles from a personal friend of Vladimir Putin*, AND HE FINDS NOTHING TO BE WRONG WITH THAT!

The problems with his methodology of truth finding were so elegantly exposed by Thump who pointed out that Chrysler did not design the M1 gas turbine and any CURSORY search about propulsion of modern MBTs would have turned out that they all are able to run on various kinds and qualities of fuel. It would have been so easy for Bel to correct his process.

Just minimal effort on Bels side would have saved him from embarrassing himself. But his focus is not finding the truth, getting his facts straight, not even the most simple ones. His focus is finding "alternative truths", and presenting himself as smart(er), superior by presenting them. He wants to be part of a "select few".

This is his motto:



Much like with his pseudophilosophical babble, its more about him and his appearance, than about the topic at hand.

* former austrian secretary of state whose wedding Putin attended, gifting her with jewelry worth tens of thousands.