Pravda online is what you’d find in the grocery store if Marat were alive and in charge of Weekly World News. Its feature writers are the madmen who wave apocalyptic signs on street corners; its opinion pages are disturbing looks into the minds of those who think racist dogs constitute racial dialogue; the stories are unsupported, irrelevant, and often painfully misleading.
“Homo rapiens be damned: Savagery is not programmed into our DNA” (a title which contains the greatest portmanteau of the English language) summarizes much of Pravda for us:
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Western Civilization (read Eurocentric, patriarchal, capitalist, speciesist, imperialist, and Christian), the most powerful perpetrator in the brutal and merciless assault on non-human animals and the Earth, codified its sociopathic license to rape by inventing an anthropomorphic deity that gave it the “divine right” to dominate and exploit.”
Pravda is a paper whose hatred extends beyond national borders or skin color to encompass the very idea of monotheism. They are able to generalize not only social or political groups but the aggregated culture of three continents. These factors make the paper not only unpalatable but irrelevant. Going to Pravda for current news is like going to Wikipedia for pornography. It's there but why, God, why.
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