• Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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    Even if this is false I don’t care. It’s true in my world now. If the west can make up facts whenever they want to help them cope so can I

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      I know some people don’t like it, but playing information warfare is important

      Like how that guy tased himself in the balls until he died during the January 6th Capitol Riot

      Snopes said it wasn’t true, but they’re absolutely wrong

      He rode the lightning to Slab City on the express testicle line

      • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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        That guy tased himself in the balls until he died during the January 6th Capitol Riot

        Snopes said it wasn’t true, but they’re absolutely wrong.

        He rode the lightning to Slab City on the express testicle line

        Swear to God this is poetry hahaha

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        I know some people don’t like it, but playing information warfare is important

        Definitely. It will take lots of angles to convince the global proletariat that maybe working together is better. Propaganda is just one of those angles. Telling the truth is also one. The synthesis of those two is where we win the information war

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                Back to your original thing. Information warfare is less important when your enemies are this openly goofy and evil.

                Let us never forget

                And we’re selling liberation not a murder house. I’ve been told on 5 separate occasions i would make a great dictator both in that my policies would be good and I would see them done but also I guess I give a vibe. During a very snowy winter in third grade the soccer field became a battle field of snow forts and due to a bit catching oddly big and then going too far, I ended out with an empire. I was reading a lot of Far Side at the time and when my friends and I were building a snow fort I declared myself Emperor Chicken and demanded my palace have a throne. My friends kinda went along with it as a gag, then it spread. Next thing I know snow is being thrown in my name and every lunch period is a pitched battle between those who pledged their fealty and those who opposed my reign. By this point I was a figurehead for third graders just wanting to have a big snow war. But snowball fights were not allowed for good reason and as more kids got in trouble I was eventually called down to the office after what I’m sure was a really funny discussion between the principle and vice principle for how to deal with their 3rd grade Julius Caesar. I didnt end out getting in any real trouble about it, just got told to cut it out. I’m pretty sure being nine i couldnt explain well that it went out of my hands pretty much immediately and I was basically a figurehead by day 3, but considering I had a pretorean guard of 12 year olds, I bet they pieced it together.

                Later stuff was probably just cause I’m nice, look out for others and have pretty clesr cut ideas for how the world should be run.

    • BettercallMao [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned
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      Based

      It is impossible having sure about anything, including your own existence. Then why accept others narratives? Any neoliberal narrative is based on a non rational universe and therefore has high chances of being manipulated.

      Fun fact: this is a huge reason for Israel and US hating Iran. Iran denying holocaust or history as we know cant be denied as a possibility

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    What’s more likely:

    First time ever an arch-ghoul gets toasted in one of the many wars he cheerleaded

    A 71 yo dickhead whose face recently started looking like a bloated cherry has a heart attack at home

    I too hope he got a gory death but eh

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    Even if this is true, why is a dumbass going into a warzone and posing for pictures in a legitimate target? The arrogance of Americans knows no bounds.

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      Even if this is true, why is a dumbass going into a warzone and posing for pictures in a legitimate target? The arrogance of Americans knows no bounds.

      Morale.

      Sending high ranking officials to the front line to show that they are willing to fight with their soldiers, and that their lives are also on the line has been a thing in pretty much all of history. In modern (WWI and after) warfare, major wars are usually too intensive for too long for them to stay there before they return to the safety of their back lines. Look at current public perceptions of WWI, where generals are depicted as sitting back in their houses while soldiers are decimated on the front.

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    “lindseygram”
    [ noun ]

    • A military strike that accidentally kills a high-ranking adversary politician out of sheer coincidence or luck.

    [ verb ]

    • The act of performing a military strike that accidentally kills a high-ranking adversary politician out of sheer coincidence or luck.

    Example use of noun form: “The Iranian missile turned into a lindseygram when it killed the Israeli politician Netanyahu while he was visiting an arms manufacturing facility in the occupied territories today.”

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      Kirk’s death allowed him to extend domestic authority and continue the Republican culture war against the Left

      This would basically be akin to beginning WWIII and Trump knows that if he goes to war with Russia, it will be more humiliating than what is going on with Iran

      Which is not to say that any of this is true in any way

      But it would be funny if it were

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    No idea if it’s true or not, but unlike most other countries, russia does follow the talk shit get hit rule.

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    They later amended the “brief sudden illness” claim to an aortic dissection and his refusal to get checked out when he wasn’t feeling well. Even if that is a lie it would be fitting.