• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    That’s weird. Why do the titles claim he said the opposite of what you quote? The more I listen to him directly (rather than read headlines about him), the more he starts to seem like just a classical tory from the 90s or 00s.

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        6 months ago

        I suspect that Powell would be disgusted by someone like Farage. Powell was wrong-headed and eccentric, but not a con artist. And he was responsible for the deaths of many Nazis and Japanese Imperial soldiers.

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      6 months ago

      Because we live in a society that doesn’t read articles anymore, and gets all of their news just from headlines.

      It’s easier for editors to make a provocative headline than it is to make a balanced one.

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      Because he actually did say the opposite of what was quoted? It wouldn’t be the first time he was talking out both sides of his mouth.