tldr: More timely market manipulation (conveniently released alarmist faux journalism introduced onto newswire as US indices reach VWAP)

  • UnderpantsWeevil
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    23 hours ago

    The media agitation is aimed at blue states, because blue states have the highest population of anti-war people.

    We’re not going to get a story about Texas being targeted by Iran, because Texans are largely on board with the war. We’re going to get an endless earful about California and New York and Minnesota and Oregon, because it gives reactionary media an opportunity to scream “Why are you rooting for Radical Islamic Jihadists?! THEY WANT TO KILL YOU!!”

    Also, provides another great excuse for Trump when he decides to send in ICE to rough up brown people in SF or LA.

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      23 hours ago

      I think support for the war in Texas and similar red states is weaker than you’d think, but with enough dumb F**ks who would be brought back in line with a false flag attack.

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        17 hours ago

        I think you might be onto something. All of my dumbfuck fellow Texans aren’t answering many questions these days on how they feel about the new Iran war. The ones who talk say that Kamala would have done the same thing.

        B-b-but, isn’t that why you voted for the peaceful never-war president??? Good God, I wonder what else he may have lied about!!!

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        23 hours ago

        I think support for the war in Texas and similar red states is weaker than you’d think

        The Republican political majority and much of the nationally elected DINO contingent fully backs the war. Maybe the people don’t, but they’ll continue to send up people who do to make decisions on their behalf.

        enough dumb F**ks who would be brought back in line with a false flag attack

        Or just an AI video overlaid with TikTok voice that claims there was an Iranian attack.

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          22 hours ago

          5 democrats voted against reining in this current attack. And 3 republicans voted for it. But sure, they’re both the same 🙄

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            21 hours ago

            5 democrats voted against reining in this current attack.

            Just enough defections to guarantee the resolution fails. Cuellar is, incidentally, the highest ranking Dem on the House Appropriations Committee, a job Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries allows him to keep despite needing Trump’s Presidential pardon to stay out of jail.

            Vargas is, similarly, a steaming pile of shit who squats on one of the bluest districts in the country.

            You can go down the list. These are all enabled by national leadership and state level corporate money. They’re symptoms of a corrupt and diseased partisan system.

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            20 hours ago

            Funny how there’s always just enough Democrats crossing the aisle to gain the desired outcome but never more. It’s almost as if the distinction between parties is political theater since neither side is ever allowed to be held accountable for not living up to their rhetoric.

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      23 hours ago

      It is however historically proven that attacks on the civilian population not only don’t demoralise the people but in fact allign the people much better with the state and the war goals than amy other means

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        23 hours ago

        “Put a boot in their ass, it’s the American way” etc. etc.