• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Social Media is the true Emperor’s New Clothes. Now all the world can see the “elite” are just as dumb as the rest of us.

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      7 months ago

      Double edged sword. It’s also a case of only being shown what they want to show us. Certainly change the information asymmetry, some better, some worse.

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        7 months ago

        I highly doubt all of these officials have that resolve. I am confident most of them succumb to the urge to just post whatever drivel they feel at the moment. It requires so little effort.

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    7 months ago

    I imagine their dermatologists are swamped with PR people who are facepalming so hard it actually ripped major patches of their face off.

    For most of the last 75 years they could at least say “ooh, look, democracy”, “we’re far more westernized than our enemies”, “outpost for repressed diaspora” and “we made economic development out of nothing, what ever got built when it was Palestine” and it was enough to nerf most Western complaints. If they kept a low profile, they could slow-motion a genocide and get away with it. They had mastered a delicate ballet.

    Thry got greedy, figuring they could leverage October 7th into a license for a full scale territory grab, and now they’re in full crackhead-with-a-Kalishnikov mode.

  • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Not to mention shooting your own civilians. experts warning - it’s a genocide

    oh yea, and blocking any sort of food aid into Gaza, great PR move…

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      7 months ago

      most moral army in the world kills civilians on both sides of the conflict to remain fair and balanced

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        7 months ago

        Targeting aid convoys is war crime tho. Don’t see that in every conflict

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    7 months ago

    Yeah Israel wants to be protagonist so bad. But there’s a real war in Ukraine where both parties involved strugle to gain superiority against the other. One of those parties needs our help before it gets overrun.

    Then there’s Israel conflict where superiority is clearly completely one sided.

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      7 months ago

      Well, they found a solution to that ::: spoiler spoiler attacking Iran for no reason. :::

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    7 months ago

    cartoonishly evil scumbaggery using literally evil cartoon characters as their proxies. incredible.

    in-
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    7 months ago

    Fire-hose propaganda is not for people who pay attention to current events. It’s kinda like those scam emails with the bad grammar: they’re trying to filter away the tuned-in to get to their core audience.