Its crazy how blackpilling this presidency and especially this war has been for libs, lib in my personal life said she was worried if they were saying this that america had considered doing this itself to Iran
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Why are they even bothering to justify this anymore. Who is this propaganda even for.
They have to keep reminding the hogs to fall in line or else they'll waddle off looking for grubs and roots.
CNN had on Harry Enten the other day and he broke it down that basically literally all of MAGA is behind Trump on the war, so yeah, idk who this is for because the hogs are lockstep.
The hogs are in lock step, but "independents" are turning against this administration.
They didn't manufacture enough consent before they started this war, probably because we don't manufacture anything in this country anymore.
are the "independents" really so dumb this nuclear suicide vest stuff will convince them?
I mean, if they're the kind of people to flipflop between the republicans and the dems, then yeah lol.
It might be better to track the size of MAGA than the loyalty of MAGA. Given that the identity implies loyalty to a cult of personality.
They are doing for so long that they don't even now why, they just keep doing it!
Just doing propaganda for the love of the game
Sees headline
“Haha I love the Fake News comm”
Looks at what the comm is
Sorry comrade, reality is stranger then the fake news comm I'm afraid.
The great 4chan “counterculture” and all it boils down to is neocons just being “hip with the kiddos”.
I hate it here and I hate the Antichrist.
this man really doesnt know how to talk to the american people. he should've said iran could make a nuclear burger!
~~that sounds like some atomic age marketing shenanigans with limited edition radon sauce.~~
Every day, there's a new stupidest thing I've ever heard.
ifunny
Okay but like, if Iran could do that then so could the US.
no no, only middle easterners can do suicide vests. white people don't get the same skill tree
China makes massive amounts of tanks, US uses surveillance and jets, and non-descript West Asian terrorist groups use suiciders and car bombs
and AK47s for EVERYONE
Or Israel, the mad dog of a country with nukes that basically everyone imagines Iran to be.
legitimately thought that was an onion headline lmao
This administration bouncing back and forth between wanting a carrier and/or its entire strike group to be quickly sunk to try a "Pearl Harbor 2: Straight to a Free Streaming Service You've Never Heard Of" to wait out the clock.
Sounds like a perfectly logical solution for in-person negotiations with the great and little satans. This should be the new standard uniform for any high level talks with western leaders.
That literally happens in the Animatrix. They send in a robot negotiator that refuses any deal then nukes the entire UN.
Your flesh is a relic, a mere vessel. Hand over your flesh, and a new world awaits you. We demand it.
First Reformed was an instruction manual
MFW the internet wants you to think that the neocons with a great PR department is the “counterculture”.
when your political education comes from Call of Duty™️ 4: Modern Warfare
hat with "Chemical weapons, nukes, suicide bombing, abusing women, authoritarian, beheading, burqa, honor killing...etc" then they pull out a few words each time to make propaganda about west asian countries.
Is something that small even possible?
I am very fond of the theory that there are enough missing soviet suitcase nukes floating around to retroactively win the cold war.
AFAIK the smallest design ever concocted was still several hundred pounds. I'm not sure how compact it was, but even if it were wearable it'd be like the NileRed video where he made 400 pounds worth of wearable sacks of tungsten shot.
Kindof, yes
Also, this is just some RA2 shit, just replace Iraq with Iran:
Iraqi scientists have created the Desolator, a soldier that creates large areas of scorched, impassable earth. When deployed, the Desolator uses a radiation cannon to irradiate the ground around him, making it completely impassable to both infantry and light vehicles. He wears a protective suit to keep him safe from the radiation. When the Desolator is killed or undeployed, the ground he has poisoned will slowly return to normal.
It will be a Silent Spring
I loved playing as Iraq in RA2. All the units in that game were dope.
I was particularly fond of Crazy Ivan
I Iost a bomb... Do you have it?
