Maybe I’m way off base but my conspiracy brain is active tonight. What’s the likelihood of some false flag attack happening at this parade thing that could be blamed on Iran or whoever else?
The people in charge of this shitshow have levels of ambition inversely proportioned to their level of ability.
Why do one thing properly when you can half-ass doing twenty things?
Why do one thing properly when you can half-ass doing twenty things?
This is how the last company I worked for operated. It’s also run by hardcore chuds
nah shit just is happening all the time now
Which is wild considering history ended in 1992
Weeks, decades. Decades, weeks.
Sometimes a lot of stuff happens at once.
Slight tangent, I was having a convo along these lines with a friend yesterday who said the early 2010s were a simpler time.
I was like… were they? In the period from the turn of the century until say, second term Obama we had 9/11, GWOT, Iraq, GFC, Occupy, several waves of BLM, Euromaidan, Arab Spring, etc. etc.
But perhaps things have accelerated, contradictions collapsing upon each other more rapidly…. I’m not sure. I feel like shit just feels crazy as you’re living through it, not to mention I was not paying attention to politics in the way I have in the last 10 years or so during that time, despite living through it. I was either a kid or a young disengaged moron.
Are more things happening? I kinda think no…? Is what’s happening with ICE and immigrants worse than what was happening to arabs at Guantanamo in the first part of the century? Is the repression in LA worse than Standing Rock? Is Israel bombing Iran worse than what was done to Libya by NATO, or Russia annexing Crimea? It feels like we fall into this trap of thinking there was an “event” that got us into The Present Where Things Are Happening vs The Past Where Things Were Not Happening, that event usually being Trump or Covid I guess. Which is essentially a metaphysical way of thinking and un-dialectical.
Not to mention that westerners finally getting upset about the current development of their political systems and thinking “the world has gone to shit” clearly just weren’t paying attention to the world outside their walled garden for the last…… 500 years?
Watching a live-streamed genocide every day while the climate is in the process of collapsing is quite a mind fuck though, for sure. And feels pretty new.
The 2010s in the West sucked if you weren’t a cis white dude. It was also the time just after the 2008 crash when job hunting first started getting even more impossible and employers started getting more bold. It was the start of housing becoming unaffordable and young people were worse off than their parents for the first time in decades. People were complaining that their kids weren’t leaving home at 18 like they did, and proceeded to collectively decide the late teens and young adults of the time were weak and spolied and needed to buy less avocado toast. Employers and landlords used this opportunity to gaslight people into worse conditions, and they haven’t looked back since. I cannot overstate just how gaslit an entire generation became and the damage it did. Now you can look at burnt out Millennials and clue in to working hard not getting you anywhere. We didn’t have that example, our parents got paid enough to buy their own houses at 20. So we worked hard and burnt out wondering why we weren’t getting anywhere. To add insult to injury now people laugh about us being pushovers. Basically laughing at victims for being mentally abused by their elders when they were young and vulnerable.
But that’s nothing compared to how much it sucked if you were in one of the countries the west was drone striking.
I guess if you were under 15, wealthy, white, Cis male and in the West at the time it might have seemed simpler. But for everyone else it sucked hard.
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I think this is spot-on. What I haven’t seen mentioned is Trump’s showmanship. He’s a clown, an entertainer. He knows how to drive the ratings and get people to tune in. I think that’s what’s different compared to the last few decades. We have a reality TV star doing livestreams of him committing crimes while posting 24/7.
Compare that to Obama’s administration where just as much ghoul shit was happening, but a large section of Americans still got their information from the 6 o’clock news. They didn’t have smartphones buzzing anytime Obama drone strike’d another hospital.
Something similar happened with Vietnam where TV made the war unpalatable compared to Korea just a few years before. Flash forwarding to today, the media hasn’t gotten internet news figured out the same way they did with cable news between the Vietnam and Iraq wars. So now we see Israelis sharing TikTok videos of them committing war crimes with the LAPD doing photo ops for Instagram that makes them look like assholes.
I agree that things were always fucked to a degree (especially the Bush years imo) but what I’m talking about specifically is that I feel like all of these events I mentioned are intentionally linked and possibly a setup for something. Again, conspiracy brain, but I wanted to get opinions from people here if they’re having similar thoughts.
We’re in a season finale.
I can see how the ice raids and trumps military parade may be connected, but the attacks on Iran were because there was a vote about removing netanyahu on the same day of the attacks
Oh interesting. I wasn’t aware of that.
Could be a conspiracy
could just be the empire’s decline and decay leading to a bunch of shit blowing up at onceEither way, I wouldn’t put it past the fash to blame Iran if a tank accidentally shoots another or falls into a massive sinkhole or some shit due to troop incompetence
not really its all the ridiculous fash shit they want just now that they are in power they are just speedrunning it
Highly sus, this would be the first time in US history that 3 things have happened at the same time.
The night before last night I saw that video of the US army secretary going on fox news to say he just spoke with an american soldier stationed on the moon defending our freedoms, and then I saw the news that Iran got attacked a few hours later. It wasn’t until yesterday evening that it hit me that we are basically watching the moon bears sketch play out in real time.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Confusion and overwhelming the public could be the goal. Although it could also just be a byproduct of US collapse
No shits pretty well fucked right now.
I sorta believe that both Ukraine attack on Russian strategic bombers and Israeli attack on Iranian bases using trucks filed with drones were planned by the same group.
Also the Pope’s address on the jumbotron at White Sox Field.
