• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Do they really think we're this dumb, or are we actually this dumb?

    In attempting to gain support they've:

    1. Likened the attack to 9/11

    2. Had IDF women do tiktok/instagram/whatever videos to honeypot people

    3. Likened Hamas to ISIS

    4. They're also making comparisons between Hamas and Nazis, and actually trying to convince people Hamas are going to kill every Jew in the world unless Israel does a genocide

    Again, do they really think we're this dumb, or are we actually this dumb?

    • flan [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      r/worldnews credulously takes whatever times of israel says at face value so yes we are that dumb.

      • pooh [she/her, any]
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        11 months ago

        /r/worldnews is heavily censored and probably full of bots, though.

    • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I think they're counting on the entirety of bourgeois media to make variations on Israel's messaging to target all sections of its audience, and to obscure the most counterproductive messaging from the same. You can do a lot with very little when you're backed by the institutions of the entire empire

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    11 months ago

    The 'personal belongings of one of the terrorists' was in a child's bedroom which was being used a Hamas base. Which was it? A store of 'personal belongings', a 'child's bedroom', or a 'Hamas base'? Because I somehow suspect no more than two Hamas members would have standing room in a child's bedroom, not even including the fact that it's apparently also storing the contents of bookshelves of all those Hamas members.

    Just such a nonsense story jamming as many keywords into one narrative as possible. Sounds a lot more like "we killed everyone in a normal home, including the children, but I swear guys we found a book with Hitler's face so it's okay"

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Various Hamas commanders sat around a plastic tea set, between a variety of stuffed animals, plotting the downfall of the West.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
    hexagon
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    11 months ago

    Also, I have books on my shelf that are untouched (swear I'm getting around to them) and they are not in as pristine condition as a book people were allegedly studying found in a war zone

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    I genuinely do not understand why Israel is so bad at propaganda.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      I'm more disturbed by the lack of media literacy the general population has to fall for this shit as hard as they have.

    • raven [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      But it works. We'll all still be chomsky-yes-honey in 2100 crowing about how they lied about the WMDs, ten or twenty such lies on, and no one will have learned a thing.

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      11 months ago

      They don’t have to be good since it doesn’t exist to convince anyone but to delude themselves into thinking they’re anything other than the second coming of Hitler

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      They don't have to be good at it when their target audience instinctively believes them.

  • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    Translated note:

    -GOOD point bring up with Ibrahim at next hamas meeting

    -infiltrate the NSDP

    -Jews control the selection process for art schools

  • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Not the most flattering picture of Hitler either. Like, if I was trying to spread his ideology I wouldn't pose him like a seething anime villain.

  • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    This is a cop with a bag of meth or fent in his pocket for a "routine traffic stop" involving a PoC and he leans down a suddenly finds the baggie under the floor mat or some shit, isn't it?

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    People don't realize that Mein Kampf is a really dense text, you have to make annotations and take notes.

    • jackmarxist [any]
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      11 months ago

      When I read it, it just felt like ramblings of an madman. Kind of like the shit basement dwellers who've not gone outside for a decade would write.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
        hexagon
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        11 months ago

        This is what I've heard and I find the idea of treating it like a Wittgenstein text and extracting every coherent thought you can from it incredibly funny.

        • pooh [she/her, any]
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          11 months ago

          Yeah it’s basically a big long unhinged rant. Sort of like an early 20th century German version of some chud wearing Oakleys and sitting in his truck making a 3 hour long video about god knows what.

        • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          To be fair, it does explain Jean Paul Sartre’s strange response of “Radical Freedom!” to the text — he thought it was just Wittgenstein

          Obligatory Existential Comic: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/393

        • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          Have a quick look through. It doesn't take long to realise it's mostly babble. Or to realise that modern politicians sound almost identical.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      It is so bad it's kind of laughable. And then you realize people took that shit seriously.

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    really disappointed when "never again is now" was the first thing I read before even the username

  • red_stapler [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I’m assuming this is like, a biography that explains how bad Hitler sucked and they assume westerners can’t read it.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      It's common for the book to be published in a heavily annotated form (heavier annotation than I've seen for any other non-religious text) refuting Hitler's claims and pointing out various lies. It's worth looking at the book for academic reasons, so I am glad it gets published this way.

  • moujikman
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    11 months ago

    So the book that features views of nationalism and racial purity, and how these views ultimately progressed genocide? Why would they read such a thing.

    • moujikman
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      11 months ago

      Mein Kampf advocated for territorial expansion based on "Lebensraum" (living space) for the German people. This involved a deeply racial component, as it involved the displacement or extermination of non-Aryan populations.