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[–] 106 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

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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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sources told NBC News Iran sent a communication to President Donald Trump in the days before Saturday night's strikes on its nuclear facilities, threatening to activate sleeper-cell terror inside the United States if it were attacked.

    https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/department-of-homeland-security-terrorism-bulletin-threats-us-sleeper-cells-iran/3773879/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ‘This is madness! Iran could do what we do all over the world!’

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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!

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  • [+] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You're not wrong but the people in charge and those voting for them only seem to understand this type of rhetoric. If we don't break their hold on power it will only get worse for Iranians (and Americans).

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago
    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Pretty sure I know what the top Halloween costume will be this year!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    New fear just dropped. I'm not going anywhere fuck this. I mean I already avoid crowds, now I'm gonna avoid them even more

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is the plan

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

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Fuck this imperial terrorism propaganda. USA is the actual terror regime. Get a clue, libs.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why would you direct this at libs when the right are the ones going batshit crazy?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    Blames only the libs

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Internationally, most people mean the pro-corporate 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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Krasnov and his fucking thugs set the precedence.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean if an unidentified person in a mask tries to abduct me they're getting shot in the face.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, because you chose it? Can you just not choose idiotic things perhaps?

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is this actually happening or is it liberal wishcasting?

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