Mastodawn

WAIT! WAAAAAAIT! is this state propaganda from #Iran? did they actually produce a diss track calling Hegseth a punkass drunk and sexual predator?!?!?

AND THEY DID IT WITH LEGOS MOVIE MAKER?!?!?

what in the trolling hell is this timeline?!?!?

ps: am tryna figure out whose voice they aislopped. NEGL the beat’s 🔥🔥🔥

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Kim 1d ago

@blogdiva

My god. It's a whole new world.

And it does slap.

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Kierkethumbs up convincingly 1d ago

@blogdiva theocratic hellscape with a beat

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paul 1d ago

@Kierkegaanks @blogdiva

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Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸1d ago

@blogdiva Pretty impressive. This kind of agit-prop, I'm here for. Let's just say the MAGA-top-dogs had it coming.

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Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸1d ago

@blogdiva Pretty close to the mark too, " 'cause mee-too was on". 20 years earlier, and they might have had an even easier time of running rough-shod over common decency.

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Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸1d ago

@blogdiva Sad to say that what the track is defending includes even worse treatment for women, in that it is systematic, done in an official capacity by law-enforcement in Iran.

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Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸1d ago

@blogdiva Or, I don't know, in some ways the hypocrisy of MAGA is somehow worse. <sigh>

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MooMoo the Cat 1d ago

@hakona @blogdiva Speed Demon, I hear you and agree. On the one hand, I am happy to destroy MAGA. But the Iranian version of women's rights is far from ideal.

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Passwordsarehard4 1d ago

@hakona @blogdiva I don’t know, they know what to expect. They both have the same opinion of women but in Iran you know exactly what’s expected. Here they tell women they are equal to get them to work harder and then steal the accolades. We expect them to look feminine and pretty and then rape them and blame the way they dressed. They are expected to want it all and work for it all but be gracious as they are victimized and it’s all taken away.

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉1d ago

@blogdiva it’s these guys: https://lnk.bio/ExplosiveMediaa

And interview with the team:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-team-behind-a-pro-iran-lego-themed-viral-video-campaign

@explosivemediaa Lnk.Bio · link in bio

@explosivemediaa Lnk.Bio · link in bio - Profile and social media links for explosivemediaa

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Deb Nam-Krane 1d ago

@blogdiva I hate myself so much for how much I enjoyed that

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Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸1d ago

@dnkboston OK, let me be the dork asking the question for all dorks: What's "p-hexus" and "e-ron" (or something that sounds like it) ? In my defence English is not my first language. @blogdiva

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ZenHeathen 🇨🇦1d ago

@hakona When pronounced correctly (not the American way), Iran is "EE-ron". Similarly, Iraq is "EE-rock". @dnkboston @blogdiva

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Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸1d ago

@ZenHeathen To my Norwegian ears it sounds more like Eraan and Eraack (like a posh British daaance) . @dnkboston @blogdiva

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ZenHeathen 🇨🇦1d ago

@hakona Yup, that's about right. @dnkboston @blogdiva

Edit: Excuse me. About right, with the exception that as I understand it, the correct pronunciations would also roll those R's, which I don't know how to type out.

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NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦1d ago

@ZenHeathen
TIL - there are three different rolled R sounds, typed out as:
⟨r⟩ - Alveolor trill
⟨ɾ⟩ - Alveolar flex
⟨ɽ͡r⟩ - Retroflex trill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolled_R

@hakona @dnkboston @blogdiva

Rolled R - Wikipedia

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Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸1d ago

@ZenHeathen like my east-norwegian r . @dnkboston @blogdiva

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Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸1d ago

Ok, got it. P Hegseth and Iran . 🤗

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why not wy 1d ago

@dnkboston @blogdiva same

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Dave Rahardja 1d ago

@blogdiva They used AI video generation, not Lego Movie Maker.

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Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@blogdiva if the cap fits, ig

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bipolaron 1d ago

@blogdiva I am shocked they managed to coax an AI video generator to keep the character designs consistent. Pretty impressive.

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Jo - pièce de résistance 1d ago

@blogdiva I think it’s someplace or someone else not from Iran Gov. They would not speak quite that way I don’t think.
Because it’s all AI it’s easy enough to replicate, but it misses the mark of authenticity by crudeness, imo.

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ZenHeathen 🇨🇦1d ago

@blogdiva ... *This* is going to be in future history "books". The world has become *weird*.

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Franklin Delano Stallone 1d ago

@blogdiva There's quite a few of them and someone is going to have fun with future history books between neither side being the good guys and the memes.

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Sir David Nielsen 1d ago

@blogdiva poetry, pure poetry!

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cR0w 🏴‍☠️🫈🫍1d ago

@blogdiva They did. And they did it well.

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brood of byrdes 1d ago

@blogdiva this is some wild shit, _digging through my old situationist texts_ there's no division between culture, war, polemic, or entertainment anymore. it's all game.

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Cleo 1d ago

@blogdiva irans been running psy ops and troll farms for years. Why would they suddenly stop?

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Matthew Merkovich 1d ago

@blogdiva OMFG!!!!!!!!!

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myrmepropagandist 1d ago

@blogdiva

This is why I keep encouraging people to tell their own version of recent news events. This is high quality propaganda* they have people who are following US media, tropes etc.

*this doesn't mean it's true or false just ideological

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myrmepropagandist 1d ago

@blogdiva

I talked to a cousin who didn't know a war had started. I've talked to people who dislike Trump but don't know who Maxwell is. But these are things that I care about.

What do YA'LL care about that I just don't know?

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Guitarsophist 1d ago

@futurebird @blogdiva Sigh. I'm sure that there are also people who don't know that Trump is president again. Perhaps that is the best way to live. The squirrel in my patio doesn't know. The ants in my kitchen don't either. The coyotes that own the night don't. It's a human problem. When I see coyotes, I always think they are laughing at us.

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Susanne 1d ago

@jredlund But these people are allowed to vote ... @futurebird @blogdiva

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Alathea 1d ago

@futurebird @blogdiva Well for one thing, my state is disappearing political prisoners now. https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/116342815741610290

Alissa Azar (@[email protected])

Malik Muhammad, who received the harshest sentence tied to the 2020 George Floyd uprisings, has effectively been disappeared by the state. Prison officials continue to dodge calls, contradict each other, and refuse to say where Malik is or why. This isn’t just neglect, it’s political repression, retaliation, and state violence. Read the full story and demand accountability: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/oregon-doc-appears-to-have-disappeared-portland-protester-malik-muhammad/

kolektiva.social

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it's B! Cavello 🐝1d ago

@Poljack @futurebird @blogdiva Oof, so scary. Thank you for uplifting this!

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Miakoda

1d ago

@futurebird @blogdiva I started jounraling about current events. Originally it was "FDT Journal", but now it's gone back to just my general journal (split in to entries I'm ok sharing public, and entries I'm keeping secret till my death). The public portion of that journal is readable via gopher.

If you're inclined to read it, lmk. Using gopher is ridicilously easy. I'll even find a gopher browser for you if you mention what OS you use.

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Miakoda

1d ago

@futurebird @blogdiva It's actually a pretty neat set up. My notes app just makes markdown files (essentially plain text). So I write the journal there. The same sync that keeps my personal files synced between my computers syncs it to a machine that then uploads them to my gopher host. No conversion needed, gopher works on text files.

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Miakoda

1d ago

@futurebird @blogdiva I've been working on a deadman automation to detect I've ceased to be alive, and trigger an automation to dump the private entries to the public folder, which would then push them up to the gopher host.

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Miakoda

1d ago

@futurebird @blogdiva Currently, the deadman automation merely messages me to tell me it thinks I'm dead. I was getting a lot of false positives. I found the timer reset was deciding to reset to however long it had been since last reboot, and then sticking with that number in subseqent timer restarts. I haven't had a chance to look lately, but I haven't heard it claim I'm dead lately, so perhaps my bug fix was good.

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Miakoda

1d ago

@futurebird @blogdiva Basically, every time I do the things I do daily, such as use my coffee timer, play on PlayStation, things like that, it restarts the timer. If I'm not alive to do those thigns, it assumes I'm dead, and - when deployed for real, it'd send me a message and start another timer. If I don't go in and tell it I'm still alive before that second timer ends, it kicks off a set of scripts to send out messages, and copy that journal.

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myrmepropagandist 1d ago

@blogdiva

I can almost laugh at this but something about war propaganda no matter who it is from, or how true it is it makes me feel queasy. It's like the New York Post when they manage to not have anything obviously false on the front page once a week.

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it's B! Cavello 🐝1d ago

@futurebird @blogdiva Yeah, feels pretty yuck, to me. But whether it’s real or not, it’s effective in how it captures attention.

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crouton 1d ago

@blogdiva

US: "right" people saying the wrong things
Iran: wrong people saying the right things

edit- being that nuances here is important and all- I'm referring to the Iranian regime currently in place, not the Iranian people. I will favourite all their US diss tracks.

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Brian Vastag 1d ago

@blogdiva There are a bunch of these. I've seen at least three.

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kit 1d ago

@blogdiva as messed up as the current regime is, the nation has been doing culture for a very long time.

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GM7077 1d ago

@blogdiva This is state-adjacent war propaganda from Iran. The group doing this is called Explosive Media (lol). They even have an account on X and others, including their songs on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/artist/6vBk5my5I6oyRJB4Z6kc41?si=8U5jpxArRfKbinzy4m8FKA