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May 2, 2026

The creative team behind many of the viral sensations featuring Lego characters and storytelling critical of the war launched by US-Israeli forces against Iran two months ago, posted a new video on Saturday that seeks to forge solidarity between everyday Iranians and Americans suffering from the conflict, and who desperately want to see the fighting brought to an end.

“The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a DC think tank focused on US foreign policy. “The music, lyrics, and imagery are all designed to appeal to disillusioned Americans.”

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The US has given up on all of it's real strengths because Trump is too stupid to see anything but raw military might as important. The US used to be so good at winning people over through its promotion of human rights and liberal values of freedom. It was always a mask, but it was a very valuable one. It certainly never won over everyone, but it bought them enough good will to allow Pax Americana to persist. Trump has torn that mask clean off, not realizing just how much he would change the game for everyone. The very confidence and desire to be the dictator of the most powerful empire on earth has made that empire significantly less powerful.

[-] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago

They needed the mask when the USSR offered competition. Once there was "no alternative", they went mask off.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago

It's not just him though, there is a whole admin that is also happy to do this and these people will still be around ready to start over in another future republican government, even if it's democrats that get in next time. A bug chunk of America appears to be happy to be on this path now.

They won't be so happy when they get to experience the Great Depression 2: The Real Electric Boogaloo

[-] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 9 points 13 hours ago

they won't give a shit, the economy is just something for poor people to suffer through

That big chunk of Americans ain't all rich

[-] msage@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

Thet never care.

2008 wasn't that long ago. Do they remember it? Or 2020?

but those recessions were obviously the fault of the undocumented transgender immigrant women with disabilities who had all their surgeries paid for by their hard earned tax dollars

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

So true. I'm glad that people acknowledge this "Liberal values" shtick was opium.for the masses. The global south has always known the US as a rapacious imperial force for resource theft, exploitation and violence

I mean, I don't have a normal perspective for an American by any stretch of the imagination. Most people here still think that America is or at some point was great.

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