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[54🌻] LastWeekTonight: Israel-Hamas War: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)#Tournesol is an open-source web tool made by a non profit organization, evaluating the overall quality of videos to fight against misinformation and dangerous content.
I always wondered who John Oliver was. Especially after the whole r/pics thing lol.
Now I know, he’s a newsreader?
He’s a comedian.
In fact, he makes a reference to that in the first 90 seconds of this very video, which it seems you didn’t actually watch.
He’s a comedian & actor who hosts a news comedy program that does a kind of gonzo journalism. It’s generally pretty well researched in my experience.
One of the most level-headed takes I’ve seen about the war.
Usually I hear either massively pro Israeli government things, the conflation of Hamas/Palestinians, or outright support for Palestine to be a free country, rarely with any nuance.
Nuance is massively important when discussing almost every issue. It’s a shame to hear so few nuanced voices once war sparks. Not the first time either.
outright support for Palestine to be a free country, rarely with any nuance.
Uh… How is that a take that needs nuance, exactly?
…Yeah, I probably should’ve specified a two (or three) state solution instead of dissolving Israel and replacing it with Palestine.
Because the notion of equal and non dissmissable human rights and international rules apparently is a radical take nowadays.
Good to see John Oliver speak up for the civilians instead of picking one genocide over another.
