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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[–] 98 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Iran being smart enough to do the thing the US admin is too stupid to: win the hearts and minds of your adversary's civilian populace.

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Historians are going to have plenty of work to do describing how the US threw away all of their soft power over the course of some decades. Absolutely wild to see.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago

    Oh, it'll be easy: "Once their opponent dissolved, a portion of the US elite convinced themselves that 'history is over' and, being unopposed, they no longer needed to cultivate soft power and can simply seize whatbthey want outright."

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Not really, such things have unfolded a hundred times over in history, it's pretty much prophetic.

    Men like Trump pave the way for real dictators who in return pave the way for emperors who in turn pave the way for tombstones.

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  • [–] 53 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    That big chunk of Americans ain't all rich

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Thet never care.

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

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    "Peace.. not for the leaders.. but the innocent souls.."

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    And I don't hate the Iranians. I hate both of our governments, however.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, it's funny how many shills tried calling me racist for supporting the Iranian protestors in 2021 and later in 2025 and 2026.

    Like, if I was racist, then why would I care about their problems and empathize and express solidarity?

    The Iranian people don't deserve to be bombed by the US and Israeli militaries. They don't deserve to be massacred for protesting against police brutality either. Or to be beaten to death in police custody for not wearing a hijab "properly."

    There are some wild mental leaps that some people will go through to support a violent regime just because it's anti-West.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Here's the link for anyone who cares.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps us protect the community.

    Got anything besides youtube? They apparently don't want me to watch it (at least not without IDing myself to them...)

    Also, how the fuck does verifying the viewer's humanity protect the fucking community? I'm not commenting or liking shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Well that's annoying. Sorry, I did a search and that popped up and let me watch without logging in. VPN maybe?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    It might be my VPN. Reddit doesn't work in my browser either (the only time I go there is if a search result returns a link for something I'm reading about).

    There are some things I'll temporarily disable my VPN for, but youtube isn't one of them...

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    Muslim Iranian's have more in common with your everyday American's than your American Zionest Evangelical.

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    I wonder if that's why all the Iranian accounts suddenly stopped calling everyone "zionazis"?

    I won't comment on how/why they got that memo a few days before the video, but it clearly wasn't working and makes sense they're pivoting.

    From a purely technical standpoint, it always made more sense for Iranian trolls to commiserate with Americans online; play it as "the only country that wants this is Israel" would be super effective.

    Insisting anyone who disagrees is a Zionist just makes the label mean nothing and makes people disregard anything else the propaganda is saying, even the true parts.

    All they were doing was diving people who were already against Israel and trump

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  • [+] 31 points 6 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    yep. hate and despise are accurate words for this

    and tbf, I hate and despise a good number of my own countryfolk as well. it's disgusting how many don't give a fuck about other people

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Paix entre nous, guerre aux tyrans!

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago*

    AI slop-😡

    AI slop (but it's Iran)-😍

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    It's a good deed.

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