• Disaffected Scorpio@lemmy.world
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    Why do we have to pin a country on this action? Sure, now, it would be easy for Iran to do something. It would be just as easy for some group of people, like those who tried to kidnap Gretchen Widmar, or Vance Boelter wannabes.

    Trump, Pam Bondi, and Tom Homan have unleashed chaos. Plus SCOTUS.

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      Because a certain demographic of the US doesn’t give a shit unless something personally affects them. Homegrown terrorism doesn’t affect them because obviously they won’t be the targets. Iranian terrorism is scary to them.

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        It’s a big country, the USA. I have a hard time sometimes remembering we have 340 million human running around. It’s easy to believe things don’t affect us. But, it’s like I tell people, when one human in Indiana loses their First Amendment right, we all do. We may not immediately feel it but the precedent has been set.

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          I’m specifically talking about Republicans. You could show any amount of atrocities to them and they’ll hand wave it until it personally affects them. Head over to leapordsatemyface for some good examples of people yelling “I didn’t vote for this!” when it’s literally exactly what they voted for.

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      We keep pinning shit on other countries. My parents used to say “there are starving children in Africa” as if there weren’t any homeless children in our neighborhood.

      • Disaffected Scorpio@lemmy.world
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        True. I remember riding the bus thinking some of my friends were probably starving. 99.99% of us are closer to being starving and homeless than we are to Jeff Bezos. We don’t vote like, though.

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    This is the plan

    Trump thinks that people will then demand a strongman president to protect them.

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      I don’t think Trump thinks this. I think his puppeteers think this and he is just the shameless puppet.

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    So foreign terrorists could cosplay as domestic terrorists and we’d have no way of knowing which kind of terrorist they are?

    Interesting times we live in

    If they come for you, don’t worry your bags will meet you at the destination. Get on the train.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Well…if they’re white, domestic terrorists.

      If they’re arabic, foreign terrorists.

      It gets really fun when the blue man group join in. Then you don’t know WHATS going on!

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    Or why average Americans don’t just do the same and go rob a bank or convenience store … just arrest people randomly, zip tie them, take all the money and leave everyone behind.

    The best part would be the local news reporting the masked robbers looked like this and ask if anyone has spotted them

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    I like the concept of planting this idea in people’s minds, but then (even more) innocents will die.

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      Far Right wing (Republicans) literally having full control of everything

      Blames only the libs

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        Internationally, most people mean the anti-regulation right when they say liberals. It’s exclusively a U.S. thing afaik to equate liberalism with anything left of center, which causes a lot of confusion.

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          That doesn’t change what I said. There’s fascism in power now in the USA, not liberals anymore. That’s why I specified far right rather than standard right.

  • solsangraal@piefed.zip
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    amplifying the “iranian terrorists are coming to get us” narrative hurts brown people more than it helps anything

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    Yes although the recent political murders shows that you can literally just dress up as a cop and drive around in a fake police car shooting people in the head. This stuff has always been possible.

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      The difference now is that refusing to show ID used to be grounds for most people to call the real police.

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    And here starts the planting of the idea that Iran is going to attack American soil… Media outlets including posts like this on social media are now shifting the narrative to make American’s fearful and to help shift blame and hatred onto Iran. It’s as if the much publicised ICE raids with narrative about their lack of identification was actually planned, or something. There’s like a playbook of this.

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      Not just US media. The Australian news went from “What the heck is Israel doing?” to planting seeds for both the idea of a terror attack on US soil and Iranian “regime change” into public space in only four days. They all fall into line without question when the US is writing the narrative.

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      Yeah, our ally attacked iran without cassus belli, iran retaliated, and we bombed iran in response.

      If iran chooses to attack us in response we should br mad at our president for starting it and regardless we should demand peace and accountability

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    Are the Iranian terrorist cells in the room with us right now? Why not go with the much more common example of white supremacist domestic terrorism?

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Because media gaslighting works so well that people usually aren’t aware that they’ve been affected by counterfactual narratives before they start actively reinforcing them by repetition.

      The Google trends for this particular phrase:

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        It’s hard not to wonder if the bump back in late March or April was from the folks selling stories right now

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      what part of “thought exercise” do you not understand. its an extrapolation of current events, and hypothetical scenarios. not a statement of a factual event that has happened. You cant imagine this occuring?

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        Here’s a way to improve the “thought exercise”: make it take place in reality instead he imaginary world racists live in.

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      Why not go with the much more common example of white supremacist

      Because that’d be preaching to the choir. Trump voters don’t care about white supremacist attacks.