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[–] 52 points 8 months ago (7 children)

What’s your actual fucking goal?

I'd wager that the part they aren't saying out loud has to do with a few different things:

  1. Distraction from Epstein, which seems to be working. Iran operations now dominate the news cycle.

  2. War offers some economic gains, at least in the short term for a few big players.

  3. War fits into the "law and order" narrative Trump is desperately trying to milk, in a way that the DHS debacles have not done. Unprovoked attack on Iran even just as a show of force has been a conservative wet dream since at least the Bush Jr. days.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Each day this happens it looks like they’re trying to breed more terrorists too.

    They’ve now blown up a hospital apparently, on top of the elementary school.

    Things were relatively quiet since ISIS/Daesh got destroyed. This is just going to make the world worse.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly, as much as I hate the Epstein distraction narrative, it probably did play a role because Trump is petty like that. At the same time, this distraction is much more impactful than what it's distracting from.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    yeah, I hate that "EVERYTHING IS A DISTRACTION!!!!!" now.

    It's fucking NOT. I'm sure they ARE trying to do some things as distractions, but most of it is just simply evil.

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