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Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 81 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What happened?

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  • [–] 192 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Trump purging his best staff like Stalin in 1938.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Then, when funny mustache guy attacked, Comrade Stalin (privately) recognized the mistake he made and re-staffed the army with professionals, while Hitler doubled down on the replacement of professionals with sycophants. Guess who won ?

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Politics in shitposts

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  • [+] -11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

    Seriously tho is nowhere safe from politics?

    Edit: so basically what people are saying is the lynchpin of the movement is saturation? Not action, marching, protesting, legal discourse, performing acts of resistance. Its this. This is the play?

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Nope. As long as our lives get destroyed by rich strangers we will never meet, everything will be political. Trying to force that is just head in the sand.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I know but how far does it need to go? How long until my kids are force fed shit about some American political bollocks on their Minecraft server?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That seems like a slippery slope argument to me. Pretty unlikely.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    But when they do, will he be able to say "we're playing Minecraft here, can we cool it with USA politics?" Without being told to get his head out the sand? I mean, theres rich people he'll never meet or influence in any way destroying the world, itd be pretty irresponsible to allow him a space to disassociate with it.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Me not giving a fuck about your banana republic regime's internal musical chairs soap opera is also political.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Sort of. Mostly seems like nihilism or denialism.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know the names of any of the people in the OP pic.
    And the fact they were supposedly fired had absolutely no effect on US politics in relation to my life.
    I bet you couldn't name a single effect those firings had on your life, as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    The major, gigantic, impact on your life relies on the fact that these were military expert officers who warned that escalation or ground troops in Iran would be a major disaster. A disaster, where even/especially if you are outside of US will cause extreme cost of living increases with lower quality, at best, assuming you are not ones who will starve, or simply have 0 fuel and ultra low food production.

    Ground troops as an example, means a very long war that could cancel US midterms. Where global shortages are extreme and last too long. $400/bbl oil and $15/gallon US gasoline with double the price elsewhere in the world are the future under such action. Where political wing of Pentagon already needs an excuse to cancel mid terms, incredible global/little americans suffering is the consequence.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You’re starting to get it. Politics is not just a very boring television channel. It’s power transactions at the highest levels and it affects basically every thing. To even be able to whine about having to pay attention to politics is a great privilege.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I hear what your saying. However. I need some place to take a break from it. It's not like I am saying we should ignore politics. I am saying in a humor based community we need a place to rest and heal so we can get back out there. Most of us are burnt out

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I understand and am very burned out about it all myself. But I will never have the audacity to complain out loud that anyone is ruining my escapism as long as people out there are suffering with no chance of escape. We’re bombing the fuck out of 80 million people right now.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Not at the moment no

    Perhaps if some among us can simply do the right thing in whatever it is they do in life and pay attention to looking after all that, it might change and we can go back to life with politics in the background but until then, no.

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