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    This is so well played!

    Now Iran can attempt an attack almost openly on the US soil and many will believe it was an inside job. Well, that’s what happens when you have 0 credibility at home due to your compulsive need to say BS all the time.

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    … The world has gone very wrong when this doesn’t even sound so unbelievable. I only see one issue:

    So far the US seems to have given up trying to make pretext for anything. Trump can do anything he wants and be worshipped for it.

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      He still has to manufacture consent, and blaming the brown people for random bombings is the classic way. It’s not just unbelievable, it will happen.

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    I find this claim I just read in a headline more credible than any of the claims released by the Epstein network because I feel like that’s pretty fucking obvious they’re either trying to provoke an attack or make a false flag look more believable.

    Just a friendly reminder that this happened a few weeks ago:

    European police agencies said on Friday that 22 people had been identified as being part of attacks involving a series of exploding parcels in ‌Europe in 2024, which the Russian military intelligence service was suspected of being behind…Explosions occurred in courier depots in Britain, Germany and Poland with security officials suggesting they were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States.

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      I like the Iranian ministers, they just casually walk with their people in the middle of a war and have the balls to call these guys out in front of everyone.

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          We murder ours for not putting out, and our information about other parts of the world is largely curated by a fascist regime. Let’s please not forget that

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            There doesn’t have to be a good guy in this story. It is perfectly plausible for this entire mess to be driven solely by villains while the innocents, who have no control over any of it, be its victims.

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              Yeah I don’t get why people are choosing sides when the sides are a Pedo-fascist regime and a theocratic dictatorship. This war is stupid af, but I wouldn’t shed a tear if the Iranian regime collapses due to it.

              R.I.P. to the innocent Civilians caught in the crossfire.

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              I kinda default to “underdog=good guy” in these situations. The people with trillions of dollars reaching across the globe to grub for more are typically in the wrong.

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    Tbh pushing this narrative far and wide is going to do a LOT to defang the impact of any sort of false flag bullshit the orange regime might attempt.

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      Didn’t the FBI already say shit about bombing California?

      Given every accusation is a confession with the GoP I immediately figured they were going to do it themselves and blame Iran. And that California was chosen to try to scare it into line, much like other blue states have been targeted by the current administration.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      not to put an extra tin foil on my tin foil hat.

      but now, given the US government, even if Iran did perpetrate a 9/11 style attack. I will assume it was a false flag attack by the US.

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      what’s the difference? the orange pedophile couldn’t care less about public opinion and it’s clear by now Americans will not mount an opposition of any significance at this point

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      That just means they’ll have to make it so big that it literally shocks the U.S. into believing they’re dealing with an existential threat.

      You know all that uranium you keep hearing about on the news…

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            This is such an annoying reply that I see everywhere. Yes, you need to treat a disease, but sometimes a single symptom can be the most threatening part of a disease.

            If I’m having a heart attack, I don’t need a diatribe about diet and exercise to fix the disease, I need CPR to fix the symptom.

            He may just be a symptom of a greater problem, but he’s a pretty big fucking problem by himself.

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              Well said. I don’t get the impulse for people to be like “there is no solution here. Trump gone won’t change anything” which is just stupid. Yes there is a huge systemic problem… but your metaphor here works well to explain why the take of the other person is not helpful.

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                All of it is helpful. This is just public discourse, and it’s important that we don’t become one dimensional in our understandings. Nobody here is going to make an argument so precise and well done that it’ll motivate any one of us to go to the local gun store and start target practice. Helpful in this context is being wise, flexible, understanding, … don’t let yourself become distracted, predictable, or blind.

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                  I agree with you for the most part, but if your words are easily taken as “it’s hopeless” that is not good.

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              Yeah, well, you don’t take care of yourself after a heart attack, eventually you’re gonna die from one. We’ve had several heart attacks.

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            And yet he is the worst president in history. Are we to give up because the corrupt system and idiotic public, both of which give him power, exists?

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    Well, how else is the pedo felon going to justify imposing martial law to avoid the bloodbath midterms?

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    I honestly think this is part of the plan.

    If there’s a 9/11 style event before 2028, it will open the door for Donald to became a true dictator, and even better, the American people will line up behind him and support it. (As evidenced by Dubya getting reelected after all the dictator shit he did post-9/11.)

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      It’ll have to be soon. He’s sundowning hard lately, and it won’t be much longer before he won’t even be able to get through a speech even with a teleprompter.

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        You’re not wrong. That’s almost certainly, in part, a driving factor behind the urgency of starting these wars now.

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    Nobody does false flag attacks like the US. One must just assume that if something like that happens it was fully planned and deployed by the Burger admin, that’s always the most probable scenario.

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    It’ll be an oil refinery if they’re smart and the power grid if they aren’t. Telegraph everything

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    Wow! In my feed 17min ago it was announced the security chief was killed by an Israeli airstrike. Lemmy moves fast!

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    You’re talking about America, the biggest terrorist/genocide state on earth. I don’t think they give a crap which flimsy excuse they need to use to cause terror on nations across the planet. They love war and terror, all to a degree

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    Well, if you’re gonna get blamed anyway, might as well do it …