This is the plan
Trump thinks that people will then demand a strongman president to protect them.
I don’t think Trump thinks this. I think his puppeteers think this and he is just the shameless puppet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
True. I remember riding the bus thinking some of my friends were probably starving. 99.99% of us are closer to being starving and homeless than we are to Jeff Bezos. We don’t vote like, though.
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I mean if an unidentified person in a mask tries to abduct me they’re getting shot in the face.
i expect itll actually be more like this;
you’re walking from the car to the grocery store in the carpark
it goes black and your arms are pinioned to your sides.
too late to draw a gun.
Either die on the spot defending yourself or either die eherever they might take you. “never go to a second location” is the wisdom
Its not gonna be “a person”, its gonna be “a gang”. Goodluck if you don’t have like a militia to protect you.
A far more likely scenario is a certain secret agency will do so as a false flag operation. Public opinion in the US is still not supportive of a war against Iran but that could change.
Fuck this imperial terrorism propaganda. USA is the actual terror regime. Get a clue, libs.
Why would you direct this at libs when the right are the ones going batshit crazy?
Leftists do not like libs. Many leftists believe that liberals contribute to setting up the breeding ground that fascists rise from. Many leftists believe that liberals partake in a system that even allows for fascism to rise.
I do not care to explain further. Research can be done, or perhaps someone else with a bit more energy than I right now can jump in :)
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Some people want to place blame to absolve themselves of any responsibility they may have.
“Not my circus, not my monkeys. Not my problem, just the countries.”
Liberals haven’t lost their minds and can be talked to obviously.
Far Right wing (Republicans) literally having full control of everything
Blames only the libs
the libs know about it, they helped set it up.
How about both
amplifying the “iranian terrorists are coming to get us” narrative hurts brown people more than it helps anything
using one racist narrative to fight another.
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).
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.
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!
First they came for the immigrants
Then they came for the activists
Then they came for the blue man group
Finally America had had enough
If they’re white, “lone wolves with mental health disorders”
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.
The difference now is that refusing to show ID used to be grounds for most people to call the real police.
And get shot by both
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?
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?
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:
It’s hard not to wonder if the bump back in late March or April was from the folks selling stories right now
Why not go with the much more common example of white supremacist
Because that’d be preaching to the choir. Trump voters don’t care about white supremacist attacks.
So the solution is to reinforce their racist beliefs?
Will the real terrorists please stand up?
If you google how many people were murdered by “iranian terrorists” versus white supremacists, the result might surprise you.
‘This is madness! Iran could do what we do all over the world!’
Iran has drones, and shoots targets withoutfirst confirming if the target even is their intended target?
I thought only the USA did that!
Please do not spread misinformation - we only make ourselves less credible when doing so.
US and Israel do that, not Iran.
No, they don’t. They’ve been extremely reserved in target selection.
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
No body armor
I noticed that too, I hope they get what’s coming to them.
They are
I know of at least 2 cases
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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
We don’t avoid them, but we do make a plan before we go. And, we always wear tennis shoes so we have the best chance at a speedy exit. So depressing that we have to think of these things.
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.
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.
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
our ally… we… us… we… our… we…
Fuck the nationalist “we”. Cult speak. Never ally with fascists. Never support genocide.
Pretty sure I know what the top Halloween costume will be this year!
