• TwilitSky@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I fucking hate electric-powered cars.
      They don’t have the infrastructure set up so you can’t do long road trips. Normal people often don’t have the electrical hookup for the car at their home/apartment/workplace. If you’re concerned about the Earth, the implications of lithium mining are outrageous. The vehicles have a lot of safety issues they shouldn’t have at this point in their lifespan.

      I’m happy with my Hybrid.

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    I feel like I could ask any random guy on the street how many American soldiers have died so far, and they’d tell me 7, but if I asked them how many little girls died when they bombed that school, they’d be like “fake news, we’d never bomb a school.”

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      To be fair, some if might be fake news. Iran has propaganda too.
      Don’t take this in any way to be pro US or IL.

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        wasn’t there a recent investigation and initial confirmation by the Pentagon and NYT that the US was responsible?

        of course the motivation and will is there for Iran to stage a “false flag” operation to damage the reputation of the US and present themselves as victims to the rest of the world, but the specifics of this case quickly dispel that notion, such as the school being adjacent to an Iranian navy base, and the school house having been previously used by the navy and only later converted to a school, as well as analysis of footage that confirmed the missile that struck the school was a missile the US has access to but Iran does not … so it is far more likely the US just didn’t update their intel and had old target data.

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          I believe there is some Iranian state media pictures of the aftermath where the exif data date said 2020 for one picture, a close up I believe, and then a wider shot the exif date is 2026, though it doesn’t appear that the pictures are shot with different cameras where one of them may have an incorrect date. It looks like the same photo just cropped.

          Anyway I’m not trying to diminish Iranians. Any loss of life is terrible and the aggressors are terrible. I’m just saying it’s hard to know of the exact truth of these situations.

          I saw a reel with a comedian who said something to the effect of, "hey did you ever noticed that Wars are just conservatives of a certain country attacking conservatives of another country? It’s like they hold a mirror up and see their reflection and get pissed about it. "

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        Wild ass take. This isn’t something that only Iranian news is reporting. Show some respect for the dead children at the very least.

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          Lol. It’s not a, “wild ass take”, as you so eloquently vomited.
          It’s more like a pragmatic ass take.
          Not sure what you mean about showing these children respect, because that’s not how respect works, and certainly you’re not the one who decides how respect is doled.
          If you mean to say do I care about children, the answer is absolutely and of course, and the guy who pressed the button to launch any weapon to kill innocent children on purpose should have his knob guillotined off.
          But that’s not my point. I’m talking about propaganda.

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    And this is the best case scenario. It’s either this or they literally think they’re meaningless collateral in the West’s noble mission to save the world.

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        Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media It should be a must-read for every high schooler but the government absolutely would never allow that.

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            indeed, which is why i prefer to recommend Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti.

            Also Chomsky was an establishment scholar, his early rise was propped up by military funds and the such meanwhile Parenti stood up by his principles and was never allowed in academia.

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    But also like fuck off America, you bitch about petrol prices when you make the majority of your own fuel, your fuel is still comparitively cheap and affected by supply interruptions compared to the rest of the world.
    Your not hurting as much as you make out to be on the news, and maybe if you didnt drive cars that use 10L/Km you wouldnt even notice the price change.