Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty is straight up State department propaganda.

Very wise. He spent his nights with the fairy by the river.

Let's not have advertising slogans in posts about products here on Lemmy. Reddit really has that going on if you're into it.

ISTG stands for It's Studio Giblets

Would be funny if Boeing started cutting corners with their hitmen, too.

I'm not your Buddy, Holly

Went downstairs and had a cup

Putin got 87% of the vote and yet in polls he only got 86% support. Definitely rigged.

https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/

https://www.ned.org/democracy-story/russia-polling-for-democracy-the-yuri-levada-analytical-center/

That's because you haven't tried cool ranch yet

As long as you get that feeling, then no need to evaluate the content of things. We have teams of people to do that. Then they tell you what context cues to look for instead of evaluating it yourself.

Since Reuters is writing this up like it's just the norm for Pakistani PMs to be charged with crimes, rather than giving context, here's an article explaining that the US pushed Pakistani lawmakers to remove Khan. He was friendly to Russia and visited Putin just at the moment that the Special Military Operation began (aka invasion of Ukraine). He was also on a serious anti corruption campaign which would have threatened the very strings the US pulled to unseat him. He is hugely popular in Pakistan, and when there was an attempted assassination the crowd rallied around him to protect him.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/

EU to Hungary: get on board with the payouts or we break your knees.