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[–] DasRav@hexbear.net 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iran and the USA, famously in the same region.

[–] context@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago

actually earth is a region

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The fact Iran and the US didn't share a region really exposes this bullshit for what it is

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

it's not?

I’m confused. This is, like, the exact opposite of what I said? You even added more evidence?

E: oh damn, you edited with quickness.

[–] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Sorry for the ninja edit and glad we're on the same page

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tehrangeles

It is a shopping, eating and gathering place for the large number (estimates range from 500,000–600,000) of Iranian-Americans and their descendants residing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the largest such community outside of Iran.

[–] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Exactly, Tehrangeles is the capital of Iranistan, and it was moved around the time of the Iranian Revolution to be farther away from CIA headquarters on the East Coast to make it harder for them to do another coup like the one in 1953. Now the Americans suddenly realized they don't like that the Iranians put their capital so close to all those military bases in California and that's what the war's about.

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 53 points 2 days ago

china keeps sabotaging us and all we have to do to stop this is to stop randomly attacking foreign countries, which is impossible for us to do

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

China's actual strategy vis-a-vis the USA:

  1. do nothing
  2. win
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

headline "CIA Uncovers Chinese Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States" with dateline 4/15/14 11:40AM, above an image with the caption "A recent photo of CPC president Xi Jinping actively engaged in the aggressive observation of American decay."

(based on The Onion's original version)

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago

projection

Imagine if he actually believes this though. Like entirely possible.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

"CHINA MADE THE US ATTACK IRAN"

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Noah must've recently read up on how MLs interpret the world today because this is just a perversion of the ML theory that the US has Ukraine for Europe, Israel for the Middle East, ROK/Taiwan for Asia, etc etc.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Liberals failing at dialectical materialism.

[–] poster596@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago
[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

“Every region”

One of these regions is incorporating a lot of other regions

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago

These people always project this shit so hard that I always expect that they're setting up for a:

Aha, you all thought it was bad for China to do it, but it's actually the USA!

But that part never comes...vegeta-pain

If this were satire, it would be a banger

[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

China’s (Voldemort) strategy is to have one “Death Eater” in every region (Order of the Phoenix) to tie down any possible rival. Russia (Malfoy) ties down Europe (Hermoine), North Korea (Crouch) ties down Japan (Cho Chang), Pakistan (Yaxley) ties down India (Shacklebolt), and Iran (LeStrange) ties down America (Harry Potter).

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would be nice if this guy actually had noahpinions

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 16 points 2 days ago

Daaaaaamn dragem

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

I'm tied down because a Chinese agent keeps shitting my pants

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Doesn’t that make all of those places the US’ attack dogs?

And Iran and US aren’t in the same global region, WTF?

[–] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

And Iran and US aren’t in the same global region, WTF?

Then how is Iran destroying billions of dollars in US military equipment? Checkmate, tankies

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

All these propagandists know how to do anymore is to point to something the US does and then just declare that their rivals are the ones really doing that, without any evidence.

It's so fucking lazy.

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

"China's secret plan is to get all the countries the West has been antagonizing to combat the West!"

Wow, what a brilliant and unique plan! Making alliances with people who share the same enemy.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

I'll leave this here in case you missed this gem.

Economic possibilities for Gaza - by Noah Smith

It doesn't hurt to dream of better days.

NOAH SMITH

OCT 19, 2023

A sampling - he has a section called "Easy wins: tourism, tax haven, and natural gas".

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

projection is a helluva drug

[–] oliveoil@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago
[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

my favorite region of u.s. amerikkka: central Asia

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

No I'm pretty sure it's sit-back-and-enjoy

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

He don't Noah anything

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

China put poop in my pants as an attack dog against me.