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Can’t wait for them to be like “the youth are seeing too many Iranian cell phone videos of their hospitals and schools being blown up, this is why Larry Ellison needs to own another telecommunications company.”
And we mumble “to combat antisemitism?”
And they will say “yes, finally, you understand.”
That will get deboonked and you’ll be told that the F in the F-35’s bombing Iran stands for “feminism”
No way this is in the show
It's been so long it's easy to forget the simpsons used to be actually witty and subversive
I thpught it was fake too, but https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=osPseaj1zrc
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Season 7, episode 9, the one where Sideshow Bob steals a nuclear bomb.
I forgot we were liberating the Iranian Woman and Girls from the head scarf of patriarchy
We are liberating them by burning away the tyrannical hijabs, and if their head is also burned away then that's just a necessary sacrifice.
Yes, so that they can eventually end up as broodmares or playthings for the good ol' billionaire CEOs of the US OF A (United Sinners of Aristocrats)
may every settler be forced to experiance the pain they have caused accross the world.
Death to Israel and Amerikkka
Also
both parties are pro-war as long as they run it. see :kerry-reporting-for-duty:
One silver lining is that since it's Israel that attacked first, the American public will perceive this as an Israeli war where the US plays second fiddle
Trump will only bleed political and cultural capital the longer it goes on
This will also inflame the internal power struggle MAGA is having over Israel, weakening their coalition overall.
I thought maga didn't even like Jewish people. What is even happening.
They don't like jews but hate Muslims more. And love colonialism.
Most Christian zionists don't. That's why they want more Jews to move to a warzone
They don't but there are some that want them in that land to either get them out of their county or think it's how to trigger the rapture
Lol. Religion is so dumb. It's like nah bro your magic school sucks.
It's fanfiction for reality that people take completely seriously smh
Hopefully that's how it works out. Apparently, Israel attacking first was the game plan they agreed on. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/white-house-politics-israel-strikes-iran-00799456
https://hexbear.net/comment/6951678
They're saying it's a joint attack, but Israel reporting it first definitely makes it seem otherwise
"PREEMPTIVE" meaning.. uhh.. before the US does it?
I've been hearing reporting for the past few days that Trump and/or the DoD wanted Isr**l to attack first and Iran to retaliate against US targets to give the US a reason to wage war.
ah jesus here we go
already Friday again D:
[bad moon rising intensifies]
May the americans and israeils hang from meathooks
:(