• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      that’s why I have no doubt that any attack in the US will be done by the US.

      my point being, that by being that sloppy and untrustworthy, even is Iran did commit an attack, everyone will believe it was the US. not saying they will. just that the US government is fucked either way

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        10 hours ago

        Honestly that might be something that could actually incite real rebellion by state governments and another civil war - the federal government carrying out a false flag so ham-handedly that it’s brutally fucking obvious that it’s a false flag.

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          8 hours ago

          unless it’s near the midterms, and they will be cancelled for some “national security”/ “emergency crisis” reason or bullshit.

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              27 minutes ago

              like he cares. unless the military/police turns on him, he can quell any rebellion and keep the grift going.

              tf do you think was the point of militarizing the police, turning ICE into the 4th largest military in America, and building massive concentration camps?

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        7 hours ago

        Is there a geographical reason to target California? Because, if anything, I imagine Texas would be the bigger target. California opposes Trump, Texas does not. Why would Iran want to target the enemy of its own enemy?

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          5 hours ago

          do you think there are “good"states and"bad states”?

          they are all the same, we started a war, and attacked civilian centers, we set the terms of engagement. random Californians are targets thanks to trump

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            3 hours ago

            Random Californians were put at risk thanks to Trump, obviously. I wouldn’t dare argue otherwise. My point has more to do with what I imagine the strategy of a state like Iran would be. I think your point stands, if the offensive were coming from China. Do you think Iran believes they’d stand a chance at accomplishing anything via an assault on US soil? If it were to happen at all, which I already believe to be quite unlikely, then I can only really accept it would happen with political precision. Iran would, if they were smart, try not to give Californians a reason to change their position on the war.

            do you think there are “good"states and"bad states”?

            Yeah, I do. There are states that are gerrymandered to hell, propagandized to hell, and serve the interests of a very small and damaging minority. That minority includes Trump and his enablers. You alternatively have the equally shit alternative states, and yeah… I picked that side.

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              2 hours ago

              in WW2, was there a distinction on which parts of Germany were more or less in favour of Hitler? When we carpet bombed Cambodia, did we looked into the regional polls? when we bombed Teheran, do they look at which neighbours and school girls were more or less in favour of the regime? When we endorsed a genocide in Gaza, did we ask to only target certain neighbours based on polls?

              This “In hope they spare the blue states” is such an unimaginably entitled statement. Sounds like “But I am one of the good guys!!!”

              No, the US has a long imperialist career of wars of aggressions and war crimes. You have personally benefited from them by having low fuel costs, you are not innocent, you might not have consented to this, but you are part of it, your taxes paid for it. If anything the US is the nation that need to be liberated.