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[–] dead@hexbear.net 15 points 10 hours ago

The photograph on the table is Qasem Soleimani, who was an Iranian Military Leader that the US assassinated in January 2020. Soleimani is also considered to be a martyr so it is fitting that Khamenei would choose to be martyred with this photo.

After the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Iranian News agency IRIB said that Americans don't know what it's like to lose a hero like Soleimani because Americans only have fake heroes like Spiderman and Spongebob.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago

I found that i still have the PressTV tweet open in one of my browser tabs. screenshot below.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why the publicly-owned Iranian news station would post an AI photo of Khamenei.

It's possible that it is a real photo but not the last photo. I tried doing reverse image search and didn't find any results.

PressTV is a reliable source. On the wikipedia page, it lists the URL presstv.ir and then you go to that URL and it lists their twitch account in the top right corner of the webpage.

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

[–] dead@hexbear.net 8 points 13 hours ago (11 children)

Judaism is a practice, a continuous choice, in the first world participation in Jewish institutions means participation with Zionist institutions

This is a Zionist talking point. Zionists believe that practicing Judaism is the same as being a Zionist. This is not true. Most Zionists are not even Jewish. Most Zionists are Protestant Christians. Judaism is thousands of years old. Zionism is around 100 years old.

To answer your other post, Bernie Sander is a Zionist and he lived in Israel in the 1960s. Bernie Sanders is a Zionist because he thinks that Israel should continue to exist, not because he's Jewish.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago (12 children)

It looks like PressTV deleted the post. I'm not sure why.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 13 points 14 hours ago (17 children)

If Adam wasn't a Zionist, he wouldn't be interviewing Ritchie Torres

Ritchie Torres is a sitting congressman of the US government. That means that he has power and notoriety. Ritchie did the interview thinking that Adam would be on the side of Israel. Adam criticized Ritchie in the interview enough that Ritchie walked out mid-interview. This made Ritchie Torres look very bad.

There is no reason for him to not have done an interview that makes the congressman look bad. Making bad congressmen look bad is a good thing.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 18 points 14 hours ago (27 children)

Adam Friedland is Jewish but not Zionist. He has said that the existence of Israel makes he feel ashamed to be Jewish. He said that he became anti-Israel after his parents made him go on birthright trip as a youth and saw the mistreatment of Palestinian people. Adam told Congressman Ritchie Torres to stop supporting Israel.

The 'center-left' label is satirical. The joke is mocking podcasts for having a political label. His show is a comedy podcast, not a politics podcast.

I get that Adam is offensive and often says problematic things, but I don't think he's Zionist. If Adam was Zionist, he would be living in Israel; he lives in New York.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 21 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

It says he was in his office. People have been saying that he wanted to be martyred, so he was not hiding. PressTV is a public international news station in Iran.

 

A few minutes before martyrdom...

‌This is the last image captured by the CCTV camera at the office of the martyred Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.

https://xcancel.com/PressTV/status/2037284709408117156#m

[–] dead@hexbear.net 1 points 16 hours ago

Let me ask you. Have you interviewed Hamas? Have you interviewed Iranian officials and Iranian citizens? Did you travel to Cuba to deliver solar panels while Cuba is suffering energy shortages due to a blockade by the US? Ryan Grim did these things.

I don't think that you watched the video because the video is not about Ryan Grim having "good takes". His "takes" do not matter. The video is about Ryan Grim going on a trip to Cuba over the weekend with a group of 600 people to deliver aid such as solar panels and medicine, while Cuban people are being strangled by the United States blockade.

I don't give a single fuck what Ryan Grim thinks. I like that he publishes interviews with Hamas and Iranians and Cubans. I like that he publishes international perspectives which western media tries to suppress.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tucker is not a strong anti-imperialist, he only says such things because he knows that it will make him popular. Tucker Carlson's dad, Dick Carlson, was the president of Voice of America from 1986 to 1991, which is US-government-owned propaganda news station ie CIA. Tucker Carlson is a fed or tied to feds.

When Kanye West came out as a Nazi, he went on Tucker Carlson's show to make the announcement. Tucker Carlson selectively edited the interview to launder Kanye's image, so that it would appear that Kanye was a more reasonable populist right wing figure. Clips of the interview were leaked by editors. Kanye claimed that Tucker censored him and then he went on Alex Jones to say even more antisemitic things. This interaction demonstrates that Tucker was comfortable with promoting a figure who claimed to be a Nazi.

The role of Tucker Carlson is to say things that are popular to promote far-right figures and far-right ideas.

Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show focused on 'the great replacement' conspiracy theory. Tucker used the term 'legacy americans' to describe white people and regularly implied that a shadowy group was using mass migration to eliminate 'legacy americans' ie white people.

The danger of Tucker Carlson is not that he's actually anti-imperialist. The danger is that he's popular and his popularity will allow him to promote his white supremacy narratives.

Only a fool would honestly believe that Tucker is actually an anti-imperialist. Just go watch one episode of his twitter show. Every episode he says things like "trans people are trying to stop you from having free healthcare". It is absurd.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why did someone edit a photo of Gordon Hurd over the article? Gordon Hurd is a guy on Fiverr who reads scripts beside a computer monitor for payment. His meme name is 'Big Man Tyrone'. 4chan payed him loads of money to read offensive scripts.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/big-man-tyrone

https://www.fiverr.com/greatgigsguy3

This is the article from the screenshot.

https://foot-africa.com/en/news/tottenham-hotspur-have-their-sights-set-on-adolf-hutter-to-lead-the-team-in-the-coming-period-1137596/

[–] dead@hexbear.net 37 points 3 days ago

RFK said that he defunded all research into idea that autism is genetically inherited and said that he believes that autism is caused by environmental factors.

The purpose of the 'tylenol causes autism' announcement was basically to defund all government research on Autism.

Also it's not just a RFK thing. Trump is a long time antivaxxer himself. This is weird because Trump celebrated his 'Operation Warp Speed' vaccine, even though his base made up conspiracy theories that Trump's vaccine would kill you. Trump said some things during the announcement the MMR vaccine being bad because it was 3 vaccines in 1 and that babies are being injected with too much liquid.

Something to consider about the right wing worldview is that they often believe in a thing called the 'Just World' fallacy. This way of thinking supposes that the world as it exists is perfectly fair: if good things happen to you then it is because you do the right stuff and if bad things happen to you it is because you did something to deserve it.

Right wingers are predisposed into believing that someone who have autism did something to deserve it.

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A message to the President of the United States: The outcome of war cannot be determined by tweets. The results of war are determined in the field — the very place where you and your forces do not dare to approach. It’s better to name this operation ‘Epic Fear’ instead of ‘Epic Fury.

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2033617974603497547#m

https://xcancel.com/PressTV/status/2033588032998179032#m (video mirror)

 

KPA Long-range Artillery Sub-unit in Western Area Conducts Firepower Strike Drill

Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- A long-range artillery sub-unit of the Korean People's Army in the western area conducted a firepower strike drill on March 14.

The drill involved twelve 600mm-calibre ultra-precision multiple rocket launchers and two artillery companies.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, observed the firepower strike drill on the spot.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated briefly that the drill was aimed at making the army do what it should do.

He said that the drill would expose the forces hostile to the DPRK, the enemies within the 420-km striking range, to uneasiness, making a signaling wave stronger than the aimed, and give them a deep understanding of the destructive power of tactical nuclear weapon.

He affirmed that the drill is a regular one for checking the DPRK's defensive posture and war deterrence and such drill will be frequently conducted in the future, too.

He authorized Full General Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration accompanying him, to command the drill, and came out to the launching position to give an instruction on the firing method.

At the central command post, Jang Chang Ha gave an order to open fire.

Making the deafening sound rending the air, multiple rocket companies opened fire in waves.

The launched rockets battered the island target in the East Sea of Korea about 364.4 km away with the accuracy of 100 percent, proving once again the destructive capability of their concentration strike and the system's military value once again.

After overseeing the firing drill, he spoke highly of the soldiers of the artillery sub-unit for being prepared for deftly handling the state-of-the-art multiple rocket launcher system. Then he once again praised the combat performance of the 600mm-calibre ultra-precision multiple rocket launchers, saying:

"It is indeed a very deadly yet attractive weapon.

Worldwide, there exists no tactical weapon that surpasses the performance of this weapon system.

This will be so in the coming few years.

Certainly, however, we will never mark time till that time, being content with this.

I always hold our defence scientists in respect and appreciate them for developing such a weapon system.

As I have already stated, our powerful attacking capability is, in effect, for defending ourselves.

It is because the most powerful attacking capability precisely means a reliable defence capability.

It is, in the true sense of the word, a means of deterring war.

But in case such deterrents of a defensive nature do not prevent foreign forces from launching an armed >provocation or invading our state to jeopardize the security of its sovereignty, they will immediately be used for their second mission, i.e., as a means of massive, destructive strike.

As I have said several times, if this weapon is used, the opponent's military infrastructure within its striking range can never survive.

Our Party and the government of the Republic will maintain durable peace by means of powerful military capabilities.

Peace is something that should be defended rather than desired."

Kim Jong Un stressed the need for all units of the army at different levels to organize and wage high-intensity practical maneuvers under the simulated conditions of an actual war, true to the Party's policy of bringing about a radical turn in training, and maintain their full response posture to thoroughly frustrate any provocation by the enemies with overwhelmingly strong power. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2026.03.15.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/22497160a763c2e470e5ddc90af96fac.kcmsf

https://archive.is/Cr4uI

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/north-korean-leader-kim-oversees-test-launch-multiple-rocket-launchers-kcna-2026-03-14/

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