Yulia Tymoshenko is a great example. On the one hand, she’s probably guilty of any crime that you could imagine. On the other hand, she was railroaded. The fact that both are true doesn’t really make either case ‘nuanced’, just seriously fucked up.

Dude, deep breaths.

Dude, you’re blathering.

But Poe’s law strikes again.

b) What I’m saying is that since I’ve been burned once by BuzzFeed, I now treat things they say with skepticism, even when I agree with their premises. I think that’s pretty healthy.

c) Since BuzzFeed now requires extra vetting work, the threshold for me to care enough to read their stuff is higher. I have plenty of other things I could be doing or reading. I have a limited number of minutes.

And the whole point of my comment was that a dismissive “the reporter is probably lying” is a pretty bold claim to make. I did the work you didn’t do, because it’s wrong to call someone presumptively dishonest when two minutes of checking will back their story. You’re awfully comfortable with not having made that effort, and with my having made it for you.

The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared in outlets from the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner to the Washington Times to National Review and RedState — emerged in a filing this week to the Department of Justice. The filing under the Foreign Agent Registration Act outlines a campaign spanning May 2008 to April 2011 and led by Joshua Trevino, a conservative pundit, who received $389,724.70 under the contract and paid smaller sums to a series of conservative writers.

(other hyperlinks in the piece demonstrate articles praising Malaysia written by people the filing says Trevino paid, using money Trevino received to lobby for Malaysia).
You might also be interested in the part of the article where Trevino is quoted apologizing for his past lies about this question.

WE MUST KILL THE MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER!!!

To accuse one’s opponent of sodomy once may be regarded as malice; to do it twice looks like the government is decided by who yells, “You’re so gay!!!” most loudly.

And the proof besides his word? “A mattress with a sample of Mr. Ibrahim’s semen confiscated from a condo”. Makes no sense. But which was still made admissible by the judge. 

And Mr. Ibrahim was acquitted. Then they charged him again like Antinous said, with no evidence. So that he could be put in jail away from his family and not run for elections against the current ruling party.

This is politically-motivated at the most ridiculous. They couldn’t even dream of a more plausible fake charge. 

The judges, the cops, all rank and file have corrupt elements. 

They also killed a Mongolian model allegedly related to a submarine deal, blew up her body with military-grade C4 explosives. and deleted immigration records of her ever entering the country. This obviously involved high levels in the government, military and immigration departments.

Rest in peace, Altantuya Shaariibuu.

An opposition member, Teoh Beng Hock, was found dead while being interrogated over a trivial matter at the “corruption office”, and they said he committed suicide by jumping off the building. 

Billions are stolen every year from the public coffers through dubiously-awarded contracts. A large portion of government contracts in Malaysia are not awarded by open tenders, but instead given to cronies. 

Because commonwealth.

Why is there such a market in reading other people’s opinions?

 The irony of this comment… on a blog.