If you're only reference for terrorists are movie villains this makes complete sense.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Implant IEDs inside hostages, just like in Metal Gear Soliderino! so-true

    Does this r*dditor even realize what the I in IED stands for

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      1 year ago

      Literally a thing that happens in Metal Gear Solid(so yeah, B movie) except its the CIA's CIA that does it and it doesnt actually even manage to properly kill any of the important people in the literal helicopter that it exploded in above open ocean.

      • sexywheat [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        in the literal helicopter that it exploded in above open ocean.

        guys common that's like rule 3 pathetic

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          1 year ago

          Its really funny to me that a point blank IED explosion into an ocean helicopter crash results in literally just a time skip and no named character deaths, so it stuck in my brain.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I see you have never met the la li lu le lo (people who are convinced that metal gear solid predicted the entire course of the gwot and the early 21st century)

          spoiler

          (they were right)

          :codec😃

  • the_kid
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    1 year ago

    he has a point, they should also start inspecting all vehicles in Isntreal too. what if Hamas rigged one of them to explode if you go under 50 mph?

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    If you're only reference for terrorists are movie villains this makes complete sense.

    You (probably) joke but it's true. It may be extremely paranoid to say this, but I can't help but feel the US government is entirely aware of the propagandistic power of television and have made full use of it in that way for decades, and I don't just mean movies and TV shows.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Nah, I think you're overreacting, there's no way the US government would use the media to dehumanise the US's enemies. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch a marvel movie where the good guy heros fight terrorists in the middle east with the US army and then maybe play some Call of Duty.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Justice Scalia responded with a defense of Agent Bauer, arguing that law enforcement officials deserve latitude in times of great crisis. "Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles.... He saved hundreds of thousands of lives," Judge Scalia reportedly said. "Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?" He then posed a series of questions to his fellow judges: "Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer?" "I don't think so," Scalia reportedly answered himself. "So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes."

      • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The paragon of law in the most powerful country in the world.

        The most powerful ethicists and philosophers are powerless against his flawless dictations.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          1 year ago

          “Of course fish isn’t meat!” [Scalia] boomed. “Why else do I—and millions of Catholics—eat fish on Fridays during Lent?”

          “But from a scientific perspective,” I responded, “isn’t meat just the flesh of an animal? And aren’t fish animals?”

          Scalia scoffed. “You’re telling me the Pope has been wrong for centuries?” (Source)

      • anaesidemus [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        "Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?

        Fuck yeah, isn't a hero supposed to be able to handle the consequences of his actions? The ends can only justify the means so far

    • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Barely a conspiracy. The Pentagon consults on basically any Hollywood movie involving the military at all. So all of them

  • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    What if Hamas rigged the inside of a hostage so when a doctor does surgery a little man springs out like a jack-in-the-box, and "pop goes the weasel" plays, but the little man is actually a tiny Hamas terrorist so as the tune ends he shoots the doctor? Scary, right?

    • GhostSpider [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      No, Hamas will put a bomb inside a hostage's guts and another inside her vagina, so when the rescue team is leaving with her on the copter she will blow up as she jumps from it, leaving Big Boss unconscious for 9 years. 😔

      Hamas is exactly that kind of shit bag group.

      • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Hamas will capture the wrong guy and spend, like, 15 minutes monologuing at him with a revenge speech he's been practicing for decades. Only to get killed by their own giant robot, shortly after.

        • GhostSpider [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Sins of the Father plays while Hamas awkwardly stares at the American hero~

    • Knoq [comrade/them, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      What if Hamas rigged the inside of a hostage so when a doctor does surgery a little alien springs out and sings "Hello my baby, Hello my honey, Hello my nightime gaaa-al~!" with a barbershop hat and cane before leaving the diner? Really Scary, Right??

  • robinn_IV
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    1 year ago

    Omg and then the IDF bravely disarms the explosives with giant digital clocks on the front with only one second left and they all hug while Hamas is captured by a U.S. Army team. A mid credit scene shows one Hamas member about to get up but then a car drives over them and the end credits roll.

    • Rom [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Don't forget the witty one-liner

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes, they are both violent primitive savages blinded by their own bloodthirstyness and also expert doctors that can surgically implant explosive devices into unwilling hostages without causing them to, you know, die from that.

    Something something fascist's enemy.

  • HornyOnMain
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    1 year ago

    so-true it's just like in batman!

    • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Remember when they were doing TDK Joker analogies with Syria or something during Obama's first term?

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I forgot this happened in Dark Knight too. Hamas is the hecking Jonckler confirmed joker-gaming

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Then again:

      https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvPNgxU/

    • biden [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Let's be real, in burgerland at least your average 15 year old has better critical thinking skills than most right now

      • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        Definitely think that on average the longer you're saturated in propaganda the worse the brainworms get so older you are the worse the critical thinking tends to be

        • biden [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Not necessarily, most Gen X voted for Dubya when they were zoomers' age. I think it's more, most teens and 20s nowadays don't watch mainstream media and get their information from social media like instagram or tiktok, which have a way less tightly controlled narrative than the news (especially the latter)

          • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            Ya that also. Many many things at play and certainly it would be foolish to believe young people are immune to propaganda or something

  • VHS [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    never underestimate the ignorance of amerikkkans… most of them seem to get their idea of Hamas from ISIS (beheadings, throwing people off roofs, no rights for women, killing Christians). but i see that r*dditors somehow stoop even lower