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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 107 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or why average Americans don't just do the same and go rob a bank or convenience store ... just arrest people randomly, zip tie them, take all the money and leave everyone behind.

The best part would be the local news reporting the masked robbers looked like this and ask if anyone has spotted them

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 month ago
[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I noticed that too, I hope they get what's coming to them.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 month ago

Are the Iranian terrorist cells in the room with us right now? Why not go with the much more common example of white supremacist domestic terrorism?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 month ago

Because media gaslighting works so well that people usually aren't aware that they've been affected by counterfactual narratives before they start actively reinforcing them by repetition.

The Google trends for this particular phrase:

[-] boydster@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

It's hard not to wonder if the bump back in late March or April was from the folks selling stories right now

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Why not go with the much more common example of white supremacist

Because that'd be preaching to the choir. Trump voters don't care about white supremacist attacks.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So the solution is to reinforce their racist beliefs?

[-] Neuromorph@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

what part of "thought exercise" do you not understand. its an extrapolation of current events, and hypothetical scenarios. not a statement of a factual event that has happened. You cant imagine this occuring?

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[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 67 points 1 month ago

So foreign terrorists could cosplay as domestic terrorists and we’d have no way of knowing which kind of terrorist they are?

Interesting times we live in

If they come for you, don’t worry your bags will meet you at the destination. Get on the train.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Well....if they're white, domestic terrorists.

If they're arabic, foreign terrorists.

It gets really fun when the blue man group join in. Then you don't know WHATS going on!

[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 19 points 1 month ago

First they came for the immigrants

Then they came for the activists

Then they came for the blue man group

Finally America had had enough

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

If they're white, "lone wolves with mental health disorders"

[-] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 36 points 1 month ago

Yes although the recent political murders shows that you can literally just dress up as a cop and drive around in a fake police car shooting people in the head. This stuff has always been possible.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago

The difference now is that refusing to show ID used to be grounds for most people to call the real police.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 16 points 1 month ago

And get shot by both

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago

Fuck this imperial terrorism propaganda. USA is the actual terror regime. Get a clue, libs.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Why would you direct this at libs when the right are the ones going batshit crazy?

[-] lev@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

Leftists do not like libs. Many leftists believe that liberals contribute to setting up the breeding ground that fascists rise from. Many leftists believe that liberals partake in a system that even allows for fascism to rise.

I do not care to explain further. Research can be done, or perhaps someone else with a bit more energy than I right now can jump in :)

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[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Some people want to place blame to absolve themselves of any responsibility they may have.

"Not my circus, not my monkeys. Not my problem, just the countries."

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[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Far Right wing (Republicans) literally having full control of everything

Blames only the libs

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[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

the libs know about it, they helped set it up.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

How about both

[-] solsangraal@piefed.zip 23 points 1 month ago

amplifying the "iranian terrorists are coming to get us" narrative hurts brown people more than it helps anything

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

using one racist narrative to fight another.

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[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

‘This is madness! Iran could do what we do all over the world!’

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Iran has drones, and shoots targets withoutfirst confirming if the target even is their intended target?

I thought only the USA did that!

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, they don’t. They’ve been extremely reserved in target selection.

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

This is the plan

Trump thinks that people will then demand a strongman president to protect them.

[-] Statick@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

I don't think Trump thinks this. I think his puppeteers think this and he is just the shameless puppet.

[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago

There's no reason everyone that protests shouldn't be dressed exactly like ice.

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[-] WiseScorpio@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Why do we have to pin a country on this action? Sure, now, it would be easy for Iran to do something. It would be just as easy for some group of people, like those who tried to kidnap Gretchen Widmar, or Vance Boelter wannabes.

Trump, Pam Bondi, and Tom Homan have unleashed chaos. Plus SCOTUS.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Because a certain demographic of the US doesn't give a shit unless something personally affects them. Homegrown terrorism doesn't affect them because obviously they won't be the targets. Iranian terrorism is scary to them.

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[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

We keep pinning shit on other countries. My parents used to say "there are starving children in Africa" as if there weren't any homeless children in our neighborhood.

[-] WiseScorpio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

True. I remember riding the bus thinking some of my friends were probably starving. 99.99% of us are closer to being starving and homeless than we are to Jeff Bezos. We don't vote like, though.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure I know what the top Halloween costume will be this year!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Is this actually happening or is it liberal wishcasting?

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

THE TRUMP ADMIN IS ABDUCTING PEOPLE WITH FAKE POLICE. Wake up!

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I mean if an unidentified person in a mask tries to abduct me they're getting shot in the face.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

i expect itll actually be more like this;

you're walking from the car to the grocery store in the carpark

it goes black and your arms are pinioned to your sides.

too late to draw a gun.

[-] jnod4@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Either die on the spot defending yourself or either die eherever they might take you. "never go to a second location" is the wisdom

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Krasnov and his fucking thugs set the precedence.

[-] LucidLyes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I like the concept of planting this idea in people's minds, but then (even more) innocents will die.

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    The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.

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    When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

    When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."

    When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

    Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.

    The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

    All this is a path to a police state.

    In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

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