Lmao this is already out of date, missing "we're blocking the strait to unblock it"
"Hurp durp, high prices Democrat Party durrrr"
"It's all biden's fault for leaving this mess for President Trump"
A kernel of truth to this, if you recognize that both Republican and Democrats have wanted the Iranian government overthrown and replaced with American loyalists for nearly fifty years.
The Obama/Biden strategy was to let the State Department polarize the rest of the region against Iran and squeeze them until they capitulated. The Bush/Trump strategy has been to outright assassinate Iranian officials, seize Iranian assets abroad, and plot an invasion of the sovereign territory.
We have a bipartisan consensus on wiping the IRGC and the Muslim-led anti-American government off the map. The question was never of policy, only of strategy.
I work with a bunch of magats and a lot of the customers are magats as well. A customer was talking to me about current events and the magat boss cuts us off and says to the customer, "Careful, hes not like us". Like, excuse me? the hell did you just say? You're right, I can think for myself.... They complain of echo chambers but create bubbles around them in real life and refuse to even talk to people who aren't "like them".
Why do you work there?
Im looking for other work but its slow going. This job was what i could find at the time.
Healthcare is tied to employment in Free America.
idk about you but I also have to pay my bills and then pay to eat here is USA otherwise I lose my home or die
Money probably
It is so hard to get a decent work in the USA now, so that it is no wonder why this guy tolerates it for as long as he can.
I'm pretty convinced that there are real people, and there are bots/inciters.
The vast majority of the ones you (and real people magas) hear are bots and inciters.
I wonder what level or percentage of bots and inciters would be needed to destabilize a country's people, and what level of influence like this would be needed to sustain it. Honestly? Probably not much, the United States is constantly on its own internal cold civil war and has been since the beginning.
Maybe there's a great intellectual threshold needed to see through the bullshit, and most people are born into systems built to prevent seeing through that threshold by any means necessary.
I'm convinced about the bots but am none too sure about the real people.
I'm still seeing a lot of red-pill bumper stickers and trump flags in the back of pickups.
I'm not saying there's not paid trolls on the internet, but there are still WAY too many supporters with IRL, local impact shit the way it is.
Well i know there can be billions of bots but there's literally 70M real people who actually voted for him lmao
https://medium.com/@shel0774/reddit-the-heart-of-the-internet-the-face-of-manipulation-b2653bba054c
The lies in the meme are identical to how Russia handles optics in order to project strength from a position of utter fucking weakness. Apparently that's how your country operates now too.
You think far, far too highly of Americans. By international standards most aren't even educated and would be considered grade school drop outs. Adding onto that over half the US population has been exposed to unsafe lead levels in their water and environment for their entire lives, including at least half still exposed today.
The Iranian regime did kill a lot of protesters although the exact number is hard to verify and it should not be used as justification for war crimes and terrorism from the American Regime against the Iranian people.
The people of Iran are in a lose - lose situation.
Edit: The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported over 5,000–7,000 deaths
This is correct. The People of Iran need time to sort through their problems, and freedom from sanctions from the West so they can trade with the rest of the world.
We are both starving the Iranian people and bombing them. All while failing to achieve democracy like we say we want.
"As punishment for Iran killing their own civilians we are going to kill more of their civilians" -12d chess with time travel
Preemptive strike on a children's school
Wouldn't want them to grow up and die in a protest.
But tbh, we really don’t know what secret intel they have
In brighter news, the trump house near me took down their trump stuff. Now it's just generic "god bless America" conservative stuff.
It was probably the "praise be to Allah" thing, wasn't it?
I live on kinda the outskirts of the ghetto, drive through it everyday to get to town, and there's this one house, dilapidated af, looks like it should be condemned, busted ass Ford Explorer non-opped on the dogshit-encrusted gravel path—and it's had Trump signs all over the front fence for ten damn years now.
Idk how to make people like this understand that Donny John literally would not piss on you if you were on fire. He'd just call you white trash, then rape your daughter on his way out.
Glad yours took their signs down, but damn. Lotta people have decided to die on this garbage ass hill.
Another maga take: "I'm okay with getting US soldiers killed since we are killing more of them"
Missing the classic "YOU JUST HAVE TDS"
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