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AP: Polish journalist suspended for calling [John Lennon's song] ‘Imagine’ a ‘vision of communism’ during Olympic opening (archive.ph)
posted 1 year ago by FrozeInFear 1 year ago by FrozeInFear +52 / -0
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– 83671R18 29 points 1 year ago +29 / -0

John Lennon is a lazy shitbrain who could not make his own bed, imagine that!

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– Mpetey123 26 points 1 year ago +26 / -0

That song saved America. Remember when all the celebrities sang it to us during covid? How could anyone call this a banal, nihilistic, simplistic, blasphemous, saccharine sack of shit song communistic?

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– FrozeInFear [S] 12 points 1 year ago +12 / -0

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TVP said in its statement announcing his suspension: “Mutual understanding, tolerance, reconciliation — these are not only the basic ideas of the Olympics, they are also the foundation of the standards that guide the new Polish Television. There is no consent to violate them.”
State media has been an ideological battleground in Poland for years. It was used as a mouthpiece by the right-wing populists who governed Poland from 2015-23. Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a centrist politician whose broad coalition took power in December, acted quickly to remove their control of the airwaves.

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– ailurus 15 points 1 year ago +15 / -0

“Mutual understanding, tolerance, reconciliation — these are not only the basic ideas of the Olympics, they are also the foundation of the standards that guide the new Polish Television. There is no consent to violate them.”

So, they're saying that communism is opposed to mutual understanding, tolerance and reconciliation? Otherwise, why would you bring down the banhammer when communism is mentioned?

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Probably because they think Communism, like Fascism, is bad. While this is true, they cannot articulate why it's bad.

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– Adamrises 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

The same way Lizzo is beautiful, until you say a girl looks like her.

Leftism/Wokes are a woman ideology. So they can hold mutually opposing points and not see an issue with it.

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– ghostfox1_ 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

So when they claim it was right wing propaganda, did what they mean was that they were mostly left wing, but sometimes pointed out leftist bullshit and how immigration was bad?

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– deleted 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0
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– Knife-TotingRat 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

I remember when people displayed Solidarnosc posters like they do Ukranian flags today.

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– undecidedmask2 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Globohomo does not like to be called out.

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– Grumman 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

The journalist isn't wrong. Even without considering communism, it's a horrific song: "Imagine there's nothing in life worth fighting for" is a dystopia, not a utopia.

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– Socalwackjob 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Globohomo getting offended at journalist merely suggesting their butt buddy's signature song is maybe alluding to communism is funny to me.

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– Totsugeki 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

John Lennon sounds suspiciously like "Join Lenin." I doubt it's even his real name.

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– c35312fb3a7e05b7a44d 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

speedrunning the airstrip one

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– Gizortnik 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

The Childless Cat-ladies are over-reacting to being called out again.

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– deleted 40 points 1 year ago +40 / -0
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