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You overestimate the base. The war machine is already rewriting this as Iranian hostility. The base is incapable of seeing this as a failure of their cult lea
by panarky 6mo ago
You overestimate the base.
The war machine is already rewriting this as Iranian hostility.
The base is incapable of seeing this as a failure of their cult leader.
Instead they'll see it as the very rationale and justification of the war.
If they were ambivalent about it before, now they'll scream bloody murder for even more off-the-leash barbarism from the US and Israel.
- butlike 6mo agoWhy are you helping them galvanize? Let them come up with their own raison d'etre.
- kelnos 6mo agoHonestly it seems like the only thing Trump's base cares about is the price of gasoline. They don't give a shit about what's actually happening in the war.
- technothrasher 6mo agoFrom the MAGA folks I know, they don't even care about the price of gasoline. That was when Biden was president. Now they have excuses. All they really seem to care about is whatever they're currently told to care about by the administration.
- LAC-Tech 6mo agoTrump has a loyal hardcore, but he is absolutely bleeding supporters around the edges. If you follow the US right many of them are pledging to vote democrat in the midterms as a protest.
- asdff 6mo agoI noticed a wave of that right as trump declared war (declared conflict, whatever), people going "I voted for no new wars," but I noticed on /r/conservative that the takes quickly gave way to sudden concern about Iran's nuclear capability as the propaganda mills got their fodder in order.
- LAC-Tech 6mo agoWho moderates /r/conservative? Whenever I drop into old subreddits these days the whole place feels very astro-turfed. High chance that it's modded by zionists, they have a lot of money and a lot of different organisations that hire full time people to "fight disinformation".
- mhb 6mo agoThe Myth of the All-Powerful Israel Lobby https://www.thefp.com/p/coleman-hughes-the-myth-of-the-all-powerful-israel-lobby https://www.thefp.com/p/coleman-hughes-the-myth-of-the-all-p...
- LAC-Tech 6mo agoNot an argument. Between - ADL - StandWithUs - AIPAC - Zionist Organization of America - Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism - Act.IL / RiseAPP - Israel Hub and more, there's enough resources to get Their People into moderator positions at /r/conservative.
- mhb 6mo agoThose Zionists are everywhere.
- defrost 6mo agoThey didn't make it into the Jewish Council of Australia: https://www.jewishcouncil.com.au/who-we-are https://www.jewishcouncil.com.au/who-we-are ... but there's certainly no shortage of Zionist pressure and lobby groups wanting leverage and influence.
- LAC-Tech 6mo agoYes, I've noticed.
- unethical_ban 6mo agoThere is only one reason for us to give a damn about Israel other than religious fervor, and it's their technology and intelligence apparatus. They only care about us because we give them a lot of money and weapons, and apparently will follow them into their Leeroy Jenkins war and do the heavy lifting. They're committing a genocide and now are ethnically cleansing Lebanon of Muslims under the cover of the Iran War. Their government is not worthy of support.