Not often Piers Morgan asks a good question.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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    18 hours ago

    what changed??? mainstream news is questioning Israel now?? why??? I haven’t seen anything like this in Israel’s entire history

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      13 hours ago

      Did you see the latest images coming out of Gaza? They’re drip feeding humanitarian aid to crowds of people herded like cattle in wired fences.

      It’s utterly outrageous, even by Israel’s standard. Their activities are too repulsive to ignore for a lot of commentators.

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      18 hours ago

      piers is not exactly mainstream, and he’ll do everything to get clicks. including having people on who regularly shit on him, because he knows it gets views. he loves it, and that’s all he cares about.

  • AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf
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    20 hours ago

    Here’s where Israel fucked up with their supporting trump play.

    If the whole world has turned their back on the US because of a despotic leader, what makes you(Israel) think they’ll continue to support you? You’re a MUCH smaller player on the international stage than the fucking US.

    You done fucked yourselves.

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    1 day ago

    Today Piers was not a twat.

    He should frame that because it’s a pretty rare event.

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      He’s started to really come around to the right side of this. Good to see, better late than never

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    1 day ago

    Gtfo with claiming this is blood libel. The Israeli government is so painfully and pathetically predictable.

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    Amazing how she says that they’re “human shields” like that makes it different or better.

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      15 hours ago

      Think it more along the lines of Piers Morgan agreeing with you. It’s more factually correct and feels better.

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      2 days ago

      It’s just incredibly easy to gain popularity with that.

      But yeah. No matter what a cockwomble he is, he is right about this. But you know what they say, even broken clocks are right twice a day.

      You agree with him on this. Don’t let that make you think you agreee with him, full stop.

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        15 hours ago

        It’s not like he’s taking a big moral leap here, he’s calling out the murder of children. Even a really bad person will usually find that objectionable. Taking this easy moral position doesn’t mitigate the rest of his terrible history.

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        I wouldn’t even be sure he’s right on this per se, rather than just a rat jumping a sinking ship.

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          Well yeah. He’s in the right band wagon, is my point.

          He didn’t pick it for the right reasons or early enough, but he is — at least in this video — on the right side.

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        2 days ago

        Eh, that one sounds like he was being an asshole to get a reaction, got a reaction, then harangued the person about it. People laugh in a a lot of “unfunny” situations.

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      2 days ago

      broken twat.

      with 100s of bs opinions it is a matter of time before one coincidentally happens up be correct

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      Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Just because you agree with him this one time doesn’t mean your opinions are aligned.

      I’m definitely not a fan but to see him finally calling this shit out says a lot.

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    2 days ago

    You’ve really fucked up when Piers Morgan calls you out, especially when it comes to Israel. Damn, what a fucked up time we’re living in…

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      Unless I see evidence of him being legitimately critical of Israel prior to 2025, I’m gonna assume he’s only calling them out now because public opinion has overwhelmingly turned against Israel.

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        You probably won’t find anything, he’s a twat, and has always been a twat. But everyone has their limit, and seeing 4k videos of children burning alive was probably his.

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        20 hours ago

        So?

        Different people have different breaking points.

        Are you really going to be a fucking hipster about people coming around to Gaza and talk down because they supported an oppressed people later than you did?

        Fucks sake dude.

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          It’s just pathetic. We’ve been on the streets for the last 20 months and we’ve said as early as October 2023 that this is genocide. We’ve been cancelled, beaten up by the police, harassed, threatened, lost jobs, been called extremists, delusional, Nazis, antisemites, terrorist supporters by the likes of Piers Morgan and unfortunately by most liberal journalists and politicians as well.

          There’s no coming around and there’s nothing to applaud when people are taking a stance against genocide. It should have never been controversial and all of these people "waking up“ now are deeply complicit in this and they will be deeply complicit in the next thing where consent will be manufactured to commit other atrocities in the name of democracy and Western values.

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    2 days ago

    I absolutely detest him, but at least he has the guts (even if it’s just for ratings) to ask these questions and make these genocidal maniacs look inept. The majority of “news” media just pander to them.

      • It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.org
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        2 days ago

        He’s a prick at the end of the day, hence I said possibly ratings. I assume also he’s seen the vast swing in public opinion and wants to make sure he’s somehow on the “reasonable” side. In this specific clip though, he’s on the money.

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      When all you sell is outrage words lose their meaning and things that should cause public outrage become entertainment in the “minute of hate” sense.

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    Yeah now that Israel has fallen out of favour and others have already publically condemned their actions of course Piers won’t miss the oppurtunity to talk over somebody in the name of journalism. Don’t get me wrong - the ambassador can get fucked too. But I still remember all the crap he said about Palestine like a year ago. He was one of the public figures really pushing the “Palestine supporter = hamas terrorism enjoyer” narrative. The killing of Palestinian children hasn’t just started now and he was on the side of the perpetrators the whole time. This interview changes nothing about what a greedy, self righteous piece of shit he is.

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    So is it finally okay to call out Israel on their bullshit now that comfy media personalities are doing it or is that privilege just for them?

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      No, you have to wait until traditional media like the evening news and print newspapers do it as well. Because the average boomer is still fed lies about the situation through those.

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        Yeah and while they were busy telling us the last 20 months that we’re Nazis or antisemtimes or whatever for being anti-genocide now that they’re "waking up“ they’re pretending that they’re already aware and tell others that they "can’t look away anymore"as if they’d be some kind of martyrs who break some taboo. It’s pathetic, really.

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    1 day ago

    Gotta start washing your hands so you can later say “look, I stood against genocide”

    Better than doubling down for sure tho.