• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    White House Twitter: Look at this video we took while we bombed them

    The POTUS: We love killing. We will kill all of them and take their stuff.

    Western media: It’s hard to tell what could have caused this. This is a very complicated situation

  • reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I also find it funny that during the protests in january and february, the IRGC violently suppressing demonstrations and killing protesters was treated as a transgression that merits regime change but now that Israel has done it, the attitude towards it is far more lax.

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      Uh, it’s obviously BAD when IRAN kills GOOD FREEDOM LOVING CITIZENS EXERCISING THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT to FREEDOM OF SPEECH and ASSEMBLY

      it’s GOOD when USREAL protects american FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY FUCK I was trying to do a thing and I just can’t even. Fuck amerikkka fuck issrael. This is so bad that I can’t even do a shitty bit about it. We should apologize for the lack of terror.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPM
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      The IRGC didn’t surpress demonstrations and protesters. It let demonstrations take place for like 2 weeks.

      Then a bunch of goons armed by the Mossad and CIA went blasting with shotguns and molotovs and they got neutralized.

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    Doesn’t the AP not report something as fact if it hasn’t been explicitly revealed already? That’s how we got the meme of Vance being a couch fucker.

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    I don’t see the issue here. AP doesn’t obscure Israel’s involvement. They simply state the facts, which are that Israel announced an attack, and then an attack followed.

    Propaganda would be omitting or inventing information.

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      The hypocrisy is the issue here. If they always reported like this, that would be fine

      But this sort of “WE CAN’T POSSIBLY DRAW A CONCLUSION THAT WOULD BE BIASED” attitude is only ever applied to Israeli war crimes. Whereas if so much as a rumor drops that “bad country did a bad thing”, it’s frequently reported as a given fact. it-is-known

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      Imagine if Russia warned that they may attack a location in Kyiv, then an explosion happens.

      How do you think the AP would report that?

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      Israel warned it could strike in the area just before the blast

      The cause of the strike was not immediately known

      thonk

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      They are very much obscuring Israel’s involvement by putting them as a sidenote at the very end and using the word “warn” instead of “threaten”.

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    Israel warned it could strike in the area just before the blast

    The cause of the strike was not immediately known

    thonk