Those seem like a lot of contract disputes that are common in business. I was a buyer for a small defense contractor and we would have at least a dozen or so payment disputes going in both directions every year, each one a different claim of wrongdoing.
Like most inflammatory headlines about Trump for the last decade, there’s often much more to the story than what the propagandists want you to believe. USA Today is one of the most brazenly biased outlets in the country.
I have the impression that most US medias are super biased, social media platforms included.
Everyone has biases. Generally speaking, I find sources who own their bias to be more reliable and less deceptive. It is the outlets who cast themselves as “just the facts” and then go on to engage in blatant propaganda that I find most troubling.
Broadly speaking, there is very little trust left in professional explainers of politics. We’re watching a lot of these organizations crumble because of it.
Locally the Maine Wire has no pretense of a neutral position, but they do a great job of supporting whatever they report on. Every other media outlet in Maine is ideologically left and blatant propagandists for the ruling regime.
Opposition media is always good to pay attention to, but I now draw most of my own conclusions from what I can directly observe the government doing.
Of course. And I agree. But there’s also variaton on how biased are we talking about. Blatant propaganda being on the other end, and just a slightly different ankle on the other.
I am completely unbiased but for one thing: acceptable pizza toppings.
Like this?
Whwt I meant earlier, that it seems to me that US media is generally more divided and biased than in Europe, but it’s just a gut feeling based on a scattered anecdotes.
Actually, Canada is responsible for that one.
Damn. Did not know.
Many media outlets make sure to sprinkle good journalism in with their propaganda, but I can’t think of a single “mainstream” media outlet I have any baseline trust in anymore. All credibility is gone, squandered in a failed effort to stop Trump’s election. Fox never had a lot of credibility with me in the first place. I still have my 20 year-old copy of the “Outfoxxed” documentary on DVD.
For an example of an “explainer” of politics who I’ve found and recently begun viewing, this guy gives what I found to be a very good take on German politics. He clearly states his support for the AfD, then goes on to give his very informed perspective.
I’ll take this all day over any mainstream news outlet. They all seem so fake and curated to me now, even the local level ones. The lack of mention about the Chinese mafia connection to the local fire this week was a perfect example of how they do that at all levels. It is all about creating and maintaining a narrative and/or defending the indefensible in 2025.
This guy seems like he’s doing it for a hobby, sort of like I do.
For an example of a fairly mainsteam “explainer” with Harvard credentials who is EASY to spot as being deceptive, Maine’s own Heather Cox Richardson is a great example. Her output is staggering and each paragraph requires careful examination of her words. You wouldn’t know that the Biden administration deliberately flooded the nation with as many people as possible if you believed what she wrote. You would know all about how Biden’s sincere efforts to close the border that were being stymied by Republicans in Congress. We now know that was a complete lie, and they all knew it at the time.
Richardson is surely intelligent enough to understand exactly what she’s doing. It’s the WHY that I’d like to know, but that’s probably easiest explained by the money she makes disparaging Republicans while not being overtly woke.
Edit: Youtube is still at their old tricks. I just clicked on that video again and the publisher added a curious comment. The #noAfD was added to his video and he can’t remove it. Clicking on it takes me to what appears to be a variety of anti-AfD videos, aber ich verstehen nicht alles. Meine Deutche is nicht so gut. Ich vergessen alle meine Deutch.
The general sentiment seems to be the same it is here in Maine. Call anyone who doesn’t want the country flooded with foreigners a Nazi.
Interesting clip. I did not fully disagree about it. Germany’s history, philosophy and their affects sociopolitical culture is an interesting topic. Not sure if Germany is really overrun by islam though. Maybe he also represents the German culture and the reasons behind their behaviour in a bit monolithic way.
He also forgets to say that also the left is more popular in East Germany. West is generally more traditional conservatives, east is left and AfD.
So good articulating and good knowledge of philosophy, but some facts are a bit assumpted.
But I enjoy quality detailed arguments, which are not always found in biggest medias around here. Specialized smaller medias and devoided hobbyists often produce better ones.
This does not contradict my earlier argument.
They are definitely on a similar demographic trendline as Maine.
Lewiston isn’t majority Muslim, but it definitely will be within a couple of decades, assuming that State of Maine continues to pay for Muslims to live in Maine and have large families with money it extracts from Maine taxpayers. It seems equally plausible in Germany, local policy differences aside. It appears to be the same playbook being run there that I observe in detail locally.
The public school is currently 50 percent Muslim and observes Muslim holidays, up from less than 1 percent in 2000 or so, while the city’s population has hovered around 40,000 for the entire time. I see no signs that trend will discontinue.
A neighbor of mine is a very lovely woman from somewhere in Africa who lives with her two small children, none of whom can communicate in English much at all after at least two years of living here full-time. The kids like to pet my dog, who is one of the most popular dogs in the neighborhood.
This is consistent with Maine government officials being on record stating that assimilation for “New Mainers” is NOT a priority. It definitely is not. I wish my neighbor no ill will, but someone is paying for her to live in that 3 bedroom home that had solar panels put on this year. Someone is paying for her new car. Someone is paying for everything, and I don’t believe she is an independently wealthy person who chose to settle in Lewiston, Maine.
Someone is also benefitting from it, and it isn’t the people of Maine who are footing the bill. That’s the really wild thing about woke to me. It isn’t nearly as organic as much as it was simply forced on the population, and we had to pay to do it to ourselves. We are probably a few years away from really understanding all of the moving parts, but they are becoming clear thanks to our First Amendment, and maybe the Second, too.
I’m just about done with Hitler’s Beneficiaries and it is inspiring me to try to tackle Janet Mills’ Beneficiaries, but I’m way short on the qualifications and abilities needed to write a similar book as Gotz Aly.
I just googled and maine has only 16 000 muslims, but Lewiston has a big chunk from this population. Interesting.
In this we agree on. Immigrant population should not be excluded from society (which they will be if they’re not given tools and incentives to integrate).
What a pizza shit !
There is no possible way that number is even remotely accurate. It is likely off by a factor of at least four or five. Possibly much more.
The US census specifically DOES NOT ask about religious affiliation. Getting a true number would be difficult, if not impossible.
Maine and nearly every nonprofit/NGO operating here go to great lengths to not track this information. I don’t believe anyone has a good count going, except individual public school districts who only track student body composition.
A LOT of people were pumped into the state during Biden’s administration and a LOT of people moved out and still are moving out. Not even ICE knows how many illegal immigrants are in Maine.
It is very fair to say that Maine is experiencing Islamification through human trafficking, similar to Germany and most Western nations.
Muslims have been welcome to live in Maine and practice their faith since Maine was founded, but did not until we began importing them with public resources. This seems to be the recurring pattern all over the west.
Bill Maher met Trump. Said he’s different behind closed doors.
Liberals are such malleable smooth brained rejects they’ll take anything the scum media says about him at face value
I can’t say about Maine, but I’ve heard this claim before several times, but haven’t seen enough statistical or anecdotal (first hand) evidence supporting it.
Does islamic immigrants cause problems in certain areas, where there are high concentration of immigrants and not enough integration? Hell yeah.
Is whole western civilization under threat because of Islam? Nah. Not buying that Huntington -stuff yet.
Islam is one element of the greater threat to Western Civilization under the umbrella of Socialism, or “Democratic Socialism” here in Maine that is the prevailing ideology of the Democratic party. It seems obvious to me that some kind of force is organizing this effort on a global scale. Who exactly that may be, I cannot say.
Maine has no history of Zoroastrianism, but if my town became 50 percent Zoroastrian in two decades through importing needy Zoroastrians with public resources, I would think it is fair to say we are undergoing some level of Zoroastranization.
I’d look at the situation completely differently if it were normal immigration, where people are self-selecting to move here to carve out a life through their own means. If thousands of Zoroastrians found success by moving here to do that through their own means, I’d have zero problems with it. That’s not what happened with Muslims in Maine, or in Germany as far as I can tell.
The clear goal seems to be overwhelming public institutions to create rapidly worsening conditions that then drive out political opposition while continuing to import the new voting bloc. That’s a main reason why Trump’s election was so historic. It stopped that formerly wide-open pipeline that Democrats said couldn’t be turned off by the President, when in fact it could.
Every locality like Lewiston that can have Democrats entrenched is a win. What happens in the wake of the policies is no concern if power can be gained. That’s the only way any of this makes sense to me. Securing power by any means is the priority. After that it is extracting wealth and spreading it around to the beneficiaries. If, after that happens, some good public outcomes take shape and can be highlighted, great. The lack of those good outcomes is why they simply call the opposition fascists here in Maine and seemingly everywhere else, too.
If the new arrivals were working out well and improving conditions, the policy would be trumpeted as a huge success with plenty of data to make the case. It isn’t, so we’re at the Nazi name-calling stage of this truly bizarre and destructive political movement.
I’d love to see Sharia Law implemented here… bye bye liberal rejects
I personally think this scale projects can not be done in secrecy globally. It takes too much financial effort and too many people. Nothing this big stays in secret forever. And why?
You blame socialism trying to destroy the world to make something new? Then they don’t need to do anything. Just wait. Our whole civilization is heading towards collapse anyway.
World is a chaotic place and people have way less control of it than we think.
