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They think they are in Starship Troopers and their enemies are bugs, and if you kill the brain bug the rest will scatter.
I think Larry C Johnson uploaded this only minutes ago
"US Air Defense THAAD and Patriot PAC3 Missiles are Kaput or Soon Will Be"
https://sonar21.com/us-air-defense-thaad-and-patriot-pac3-missiles-are-kaput-or-soon-will-be/
I'm not sure what to make of this video that Johnson embedded, about general Esmail Qaani supposedly being exposed as a Mossad asset and executed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0_i_Pot1BQ
The video itself gives no sources, and in the description there's a strange disclaimer, "Some videos on this channel are fictionalized and contain elements of creative reconstruction and interpretation of historical facts." Maybe that's just pertaining to little atmospheric flourishes like "the mood in the room was..." that are obviously storytelling? I'm really not sure what to make of this. The video does show a grasp of the historical details.
I'm a bystander, but, for context, this response is from a longtime hexbear user who opposes the genocide and Zionism, but also opposed the alleged attempted attack against a US Zionist synagogue by a man whose family was recently murdered by Zionists in Lebanon.
My own feeling is that this topic is almost perfectly triangulated to generate hot takes and intractable arguments -- we are basically asking, "should you defend terrorist attacks against American civilian religious centers that provide material support to an ongoing Zionist genocide, which has already killed hundreds of thousands of victims, even if such attacks are unlikely to slow the genocide and are likely to harm children?"
Ultimately, what is the point of fighting about that, especially in a heated and off-the-cuff manner? It's so emotionally charged and sensitive that you are just going to get sucked into defending yourself by attacking the other side, and vice versa, in an endless feedback loop, until you hate each other and it poisons the community around you, all for what benefit? You either defend an ineffective tactic or condemn a grief-stricken victim of fascists?
Maybe I'm in the wrong here, but my feeling is, if you think there's a valuable point to make, please recognize the potential pitfalls of this topic and discuss it patiently and diplomatically, if not for the other party's sake than at least for the sake of the community.
I assume he's just off-grid so hackers cannot find his location, like the Ayatollah during the last war.
Max Blumenthal published a report on March 6 titled "How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war"
two-paragraph excerpt
The man accused of leading the most significant of these operations, Asif Merchant, is currently on trial in a Brooklyn, NY federal court. After the US granted him a visa despite his presence on a terror watchlist, Merchant was in the constant company of an FBI confidential informant who ultimately steered the contrived plot to its conclusion. He never stood a chance of realizing his plans, and did not appear serious about doing so.
Independent journalist Ken Silva puts it succinctly in his forthcoming investigative book, “The Trump Assassination Plots”: “A closer look at the Merchant case reveals that at the very least…it was a highly controlled FBI sting operation that never posed a threat to Trump. More nefariously, records and whistleblower disclosures indicate that Merchant may have been the patsy in a case totally fabricated by the undercover agents.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/03/06/israel-fbi-assassination-plots-trump-iran-war/
Then there's the reports from the last war that Trump was getting cooked intelligence from the Israelis via John Ratcliffe.
...Are they Truman Showing Trump?
Amazing to see how disconnected from reality the various dads in the comments are. Like they're watching a football game.
I wonder how many of them can point to Iran on a map or give even a one-sentence reason for why this war should happen.
What happens if a missile city is imaged with SAR while it is firing? What is the most damaging intel the US and Israel get from that?
You need both.
Indirect communication is absorbed subconsciously. When you look at cinematography, for example, the same scene can fall flat or move you depending on how it's visually presented. There are layers of structure and communication that your subconscious picks up on, which someone had to put thought into. The aim is not to hide the point but to reinforce it, the direct and indirect work in concert.
Yeah, if all the communication is indirect, that can be a hallmark of elitism or deliberate opaqueness. But pretty much any effective work of art will have layers of structure that are not consciously registered. And this isn't surprising, because it's also how we process real life; your first impression of a person or place is synthesized subconsciously from the little details you observe during the encounter, it's not a galaxy-brained conscious analysis.
Art communicates through experience, and subconscious pattern recognition is a big part of how we perceive and organize experience. Even when the artist goes by feel, what they're feeling is those layers; they feel them the same way we feel them, and it guides their decisions. Some of the best artists can also retroactively explain or rationalize their intuitive decisions, and develop their own theories to augment that intuition.
I hope I'm not explaining the obvious or missing the point, I'm just trying to say that direct and indirect are not mutually exclusive, it's a false choice. You have to make detailed decisions either way, in the execution of the work, so you might as well be intentional about them. It will only strengthen the impact of your overt communication.