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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   29363 thread views

Israel-Gaza Megathread #1

This is a megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.

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Spooks do spooky things, is that really a controversial statement?

When it's used as a magic wand for conspiracy theories? Sure. Usually, even. Most conspiracy theories are controversial.

Would it really be surprising that some Israeli spooks would have PR campaigns ready for the next Hamas attack? Do you also believe that journalists were frantically scrambling to come up with their articles and biography, etc the day Elizabeth II passed?

What occurred over the weekend wasn't merely 'a PR campaign,' largely because it wasn't actually the Israelis driving it. The primary drivers of engagement were the perpetrators and their supporters social media channels, which were in turn picked up, signal boosted, and dissimenated by social media dynamics the Israelis have never demonstrated functional control of.

We saw what Israeli-affiliated and associated government media were trying to do over the weekend. It had very little to do with the viral news cycle that saw the unexpectedly overly successful pro-Hamas people egregiously overstep their local political pieties.

What occurred over the weekend wasn't merely 'a PR campaign,' largely because it wasn't actually the Israelis driving it. The primary drivers of engagement were the perpetrators and their supporters social media channels, which were in turn picked up, signal boosted, and dissimenated by social media dynamics the Israelis have never demonstrated functional control of.

So it's Hamas that spread the claim that they decapitated babies? Just like Assad was the one spreading the news that he was gassing his own people conveniently right after the US said they would not do anything to Syria unless Syria used chemical weapons? Saddam bragged about having WMDs? And Russia bombed its own pipeline as well? Trump created the piss-dossier and asked the FBI to investigate him for it?

The enemies of the war-hawks in Washington DC just seem to keep making these obvious PR mistakes that provide material for these war-hawks to do what they love to do. Weird, uh.

Yawn. While it's interesting you think this is a rebuttal to what you think you quoted, it's not a rebuttal to what was actually written.

The primary drivers of engagement were the perpetrators and their supporters social media channels, which were in turn picked up, signal boosted, and disseminated by social media dynamics the Israelis have never demonstrated functional control of.

Something happened in the Middle-East, social media users, some close to the Hamas, posted about it. Elon Musk's X let it happen because he's only 99.9% owned by the Establishment. Then Establishment media started commenting on it and finding some posts from social media users, some close to the Mossad and started spinning a story about beheaded babies. We still afaik have no evidence of these beheaded babies. Entire Western world media is now behind a massive propaganda campaign to make it acceptable to starve / bomb / gas 1 to 2 million civilians in a small urban area.

These events are completely independent to previous wars in the Middle-East and other Establishment ops.

Remember this picture ? The poor innocent child who washed up on the shore after evil Europeans did not want to take in Syrian refugees?

Oh, hey, the person who missed the point of the post they quoted is still jousting at a strawman without demonstrating awareness of what they were quoting the second time. Imagine that.

Par for course, perhaps, but underwhelming as usual.

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