Mastodawn

"US striking civilian structures a sign of 'moral collapse', says Iranian foreign minister"

I think its actually kinda cute how people in other countries think Americans had morals to collapse tho. I mean he's not wrong, blowing up bridges is absolutely the full Hitler shit, but also - man, lemme tell you about the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan because... woah boy. We're WarCrimesTheCountryTM my friend.

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Dataline

@AnarchoNinaWrites I think they are trying to reach the hearts of Americans who are too uneducated to pay any attention (don't know who their leaders are even, etc), which are quite common. When I interact daily with normals and politics comes up, most people around here are still fully in the USimulation, which has one vulnerability; even though they'll squirm and protest due to cognitive dissonance when it happens: I've noted that roughly two to five exposures to that sort of information causes a noticeable shift in their position over time away from blind support of the Zionist entity and away from blind support of the US form of democratic republicanism, which is at this point completely transparent in its corruption and serial betrayal of the people. So it is not in vain to put an effort into representing the both the rational and spiritual reasoning behind what is evil about our gov't and position in the world to ordinary people, even though the initial pushback feels extreme.

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Dataline 4h ago

@AnarchoNinaWrites I don't think anyone is insane enough to try to get through to the Nazis, of course (well, maybe the liberals, but they aren't even doing so in good faith, it's pure cope; they know it can't work). It's more of a question of getting people who do have a conscience to realize they have no choice but to do something besides "protest" without blocking a sidewalk or simply vote their way out of it for a false opposition. Getting that sort of thing across on major channels rather than a sort of nook on the internet is potentially powerful in the long run even if by itself it doesn't appear to have an immediate and dramatic effect. It's a question of feeding energy into a mass until it's a critical mass.

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Dataline 3h ago

@AnarchoNinaWrites There is another way in which this kind of rhetoric functions to "get through to" Nazis. It doesn't change them, but it serves to demoralize them. They can only get more dangerous, but the entire fascist psyche is death drive: they want to go on a suicide mission, fail, commit hara kiri. It's all aesthetics for them. Look at the way Hegseth waxes poetic talking about being on an airbase. This is a psychohistorical program that results in everyone important shooting themselves in a bunker. Egg them on, make them feel more defeated. "You've lost. Your morals have collapsed. You're a *degenerate*." etc etc