Phew. Good thing we didn't vote for Kamala.
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I have been complaining about getting tricked by [email protected] several times over. Oh would I love to be tricked right about now.
The sick Orange POS would take a gold Tokarev pistol from Stalin.
And put it on his desk in the Oval Office next to the Diet Coke button.
One day, decades from now, people will read about these men in the same way we read about Mussolini and Hitler. They'll be reading with bated breath about the atrocities they committed and we'll be asked by our grandchildren how was it possible to even happen. Hopefully they'll live in a world where none of this would be possible and they won't comprehend the evil and cruelty that we got to witness, they won't be able to understand how so many millions cheered for these monsters. Come to think of it, I don't understand why so many millions cheer for them today.
Nope, this turn in history will go beyond decades. We have entered the dystopian age where corporations will run or replace governments.
There's no coming back for this one.
Corporations 1, people 0.
If it's anything like Reagan, there's probably going to be some revisionism.
Israel had invested billions and continues to invest record numbers every year into propaganda and desinformation, in particular revisionism of its own history. And countries like the US and Germany are helping them with it.
For instance in some places in Germany it was decided to make it mandatory for teachers to use a leaflet called "Mythos Nakba" - Nakba myth, which is claiming the ethnic cleansing of around 750.000 Palestinians before and during the formation of Israel in 1948 to be a "myth". Of course this leaflet comes from an Israeli propaganda organization, with connections to the government funded "Zentralrat der Juden" - central council of Jews. The "Zentralrat" used to be a representation of Jews in Germany but has been usurped into a key organization of Israeli propaganda in Germany over the past decades, while continuing to claim to represent the mainstream of Jews in Germany.
This is particularly insane in Germany, where denial of the Holocaust is a common trope of the fascists too.
IF they had verified each individual target before detonating it could have been the single operation with the highest success rate for hitting actual militants and the lowest civillian casualties out of everything Israel has done lately, but instead they just detonated like a thousand pagers and pissed off Lebanon immediately after a US Diplomat came by to criticize them for escalating tensions in Lebanon.
Actually, it still might be. Pretty low bar.
I wonder if Trump's Gold Apollo will blow up, too.
That's fucking macabre... And since it's from Israel, there's probably a bug in the pager too...
Does it come preloaded with C4 or is Trump expected to add that herself?
One can hope
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Wait, this is real?
I was thinking the Onion is trying to be creative but damn reality is worse than fiction can be.
Irony is dead
It's real
Apparently so. I’m at a loss for words for once.
All I want to do is just a string of expletives at full fucking shout for a few hours, this is beyond insanity. Am I just in a decade long coma and this is all paranoia running wild in my brain? It would make more sense than.... this.
Terrorism twins
Imagine the outrage if a world leader gifted another leader a golden model airplane after 9/11.
Insanity.
There they go, best buds, genocide bibi and ethnic cleansing don.
That is twisted
Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be a kaboom!
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
Kaboom is lurking on the conservation Lemmy. Probably re-evaluating his life choices. Or most likely not, because that requires self-reflection.
Fucking grotesque. Hey why not make a lampshade of human skin next time. Sick fucks.
As a Canadian, It’s crazy how easy these two played the American left by starting a genocidal war and having musk and the oligarchs use all propaganda machines to turn it into the Democrats fault. And the left just ate it up despite how blatantly obvious it was. The left splintered and had a “no, YOU’RE the fake leftist!” Argument among each other while the right unified and laughed at you guys
I mean it seems more because Biden's administration was hugely pro-Israel and consistently the destruction of Gaza and the death of Palestinians, and Harris started plainly her policy was the same. Harris ran on a campaign of telling parts of the left that they didn't want their vote and courted mythical moderate Republicans.
And I voted for Harris, but this was by far a loss due to the Democrats abandonment of their base and what polling clearly showed people wanted change, irrational or not, just something different. Running on a same-as-Biden platform was a massive blunder.
if only there was a way for the democratic party to not be accused of sending weapons to a country actively committing war crimes . alas , it is the voters faulrv
It's almost as if there should be 3-4 parties because not everyone in one party is going to agree about everything else that others in that party agree with if it's supposed to represent 50+ percent of the population.
Great, I mean you guys keep saying this. I’ve been hearing it from Americans for decades. Maybe that’s the problem, you guys always have this defeatist attitude like “well if the system was better” well it isn’t, so work within it, or you personally get out there and work to change it. Otherwise there’s nothing you can really do but complain. You don’t get to just complain online about a lack of change, you actually have to go out there and help in some way physically
Working within the system would mean to collectively vote for a third party with positions that aren't as far right as the Democrats. This is why the goons of the system made so much effort to discredit this approach and tell people that voting "the lesser of two evils" is as good as it gets, while also hyping up the next election as the all deciding one, so no one develops long term political strategies against the Oligarchy.
I never said I'm American, I live in a place with more than two parties. It's not perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than if there were only two.
The right is always unified. Blind loyalty to the team captain is their one positive attribute. Look to our own slimeball cons for similar - but properly muted because #canada - idiocy and worship.
I wouldn't call it positive, but it is very successful.
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I seriously thought this was an onion article!
I wish it was. Sadly, the world is an extremely ugly place.
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It would be the funniest thing if they were exact copies
Yeah, because that's not fascist behaviour. Fucking hell.
Hopefully, it’s exactly like the originals and someone leaks the code.
Brb, programing an autodialer.
Zios invented modern terrorism. The pager terror attack was just the latest.
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