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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This is so well played!

Now Iran can attempt an attack almost openly on the US soil and many will believe it was an inside job. Well, that's what happens when you have 0 credibility at home due to your compulsive need to say BS all the time.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah, we’ll still be able to tell. Effective, strategic, hits people of all walks of life? Iran. Bungled, half-assed, and happens in a blue city, in a community of color, at a gay bar… you know.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So Iran just has to do it all bungled and half-assed and we'll never suspect it was them!

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

What dimension of chess are we now playing? 6D? 7D? Shit’s going to start blowing up and 1/3 of the people will be claiming it, 1/3 blaming it, and 1/3 lying about it, when in fact it was a laptop battery that overheated.

[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You mean like that “potential drone strike attempt” in California that the FBI said Iran might try to do? Despite it being unlikely that Iran has drones capable of striking California?

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha, yeah. I saw that too and pondered at the veracity of that claim. If Iran has drones that can fly across the Indian and Pacific Oceans and still hit a target, damn, that’s a helluva technological leap.

yeah if iran can get a drone to california i'm more impressed with their drone than their payload

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

A head's up, totally feasible. A drone strike can be launched from a boat, a box truck, a garage, anywhere you can have an operator to control it.

I'm not saying that this particular threat was a real problem, but personally I do not understand how the US has not been hit yet. Why is Iran not even bothering?

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Because they're not terrorists.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Even they admit they are terrorists. Constantly

[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because historically, the only two times the USA was actually attacked on USA soil, we retaliated with an unreasonable amount of force. Sure we didn’t nuke anyone after 9/11, but we did after Pearl Harbor and Trump is absolutely demented and egotistical enough to actually try to nuke a country that directly attacks the USA. Plus, attacking Iran is pretty unpopular in the USA because people can tell that we are doing this at the behest of Israel, and they don’t want American soldiers to die fighting Israel’s war (obviously some Americans are fine with this tho bc zionists are loyal to Israel above all else). If Iran attacks the USA directly then suddenly attacking Iran will be wildly popular in the USA, which will mean an even longer and more brutal conflict is guaranteed

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If Iran attacks us, how can we even be mad? If we want to stop it, we need to change at home. It's our fault.

[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 2 points 13 hours ago

I agree that it totally makes sense if Iran attacks the USA. It’s not good (war never is), but it makes sense. However, most Americans don’t think like this. They’ll suddenly feel an ounce of the fear that we’ve made other people across the world feel and instead of reflecting on why this happened and that it’s the consequences of the USA’s actions, they’ll get angry and go full scorched earth. Just like people did with 9/11. People still use that as “justification” for terrorizing the entire Middle East

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

We have sonar so good we can find a dead billionaire at the bottom of the sea. Ain't no way they get a boat with a drone in range without us letting it happen.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They don't have to launch direct attacks, as already there are sympathizers who could come out of nowhere.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Cletus at home in Arkansas doesn't care about justice, he just wants freedom fries and lifted trucks

The chumps that voted for this weren't smart enough to spot evil in 2024, and they aren't now either

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works -4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

lmao you still think brown people are the terrorists?

I swear some people are unredeemable.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I swear some people are unredeemable.

This is an ironic statement.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Boy who cried wolf lookin ahh

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only that the Trumpets do have pretty plausible deniability if there is no clear and blatant evidence it's a false flag, as nobody would believe the dumbasses in the US Admin were competent enough to pull off a successful false flag.

I'm already convinced that the guys removed from the flights were false flags. So they had bombs and then got arrested without detonating? My ass...