NedIsakoff

They [Iran] violated [the ceasefire], but Israel violated it too. Israel - as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when- when I say "okay, now you have 12 hours", you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning, because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot - perhaps by mistake - that didn't land, I'm not happy about that.

You know what, we have- we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that?

Seeing the media uncritically report the Iranian Sleeper Cell story and people taking it at face value reminds me of something I read in Dirty Truths by Parenti about the "Libyan Hit Squads".

"On ABC-TV evening news Frank Reynolds stated that it was "known" that Libyan agents were "in this country for the purpose of assassinating the highest officials in the U.S. government." CBS anchor Dan Rather announced on December 4, "A squad of terrorists infiltrated the United States on a mission to kill the president and his top aides."

"Needless to say, the nonexistent hit team(s) never materialized. It remained for TV Guide (6/12/1986) to admit, in a cover story entitled: "Why American TV Is so Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda," that the "assassination plot" consisted of nothing but wild conjectures. TV Guide then disinformed its millions of readers by asserting that the whole incident was probable evidence of a KGB campaign to use alarmist rumors "to destabilize public opinion in the West." Or perhaps the story was planted by Qaddafi himself, who "is no madman" but "a shrewd Bedouin" "who is sitting back and laughing over this.""

You don't even have to go that far, just ask them "why?" or "how so?" and they look at you like this bit from Seinfeld

Wasn't a homeless man just ran over by a bulldozer last week in the US too?

Would like to be added as well! Been >10 years since I read it and that was for college course/wasn't the full thing.

A recent one I read was Killing Hope by William Blum. Took me ages to finish it because every chapter just left me feeling like

Not necessarily explicitly leftist or anti-imperialist but Chaos by Tom O'neill is a lot of fun and brainworm inducing.

It took me way too long to realize the black lines were blocking the usernames and not some hidden message lmao.

"Come here wife Paulette. Infection, rating murder, did it again like JK Rowling, clapped for a wife and two an incel."

My mother-in-law scolded my wife for laughing about it in an instagram post. "A person is dead, how can you write something so hateful. You are condoning violence!".

I said to just reply with a screenshot of all of her posts about marginalized people, immigrants, or Palestinians lol. But also like why the fuck does she give a shit, American peasant mentality is wild.

I love the photo of all them inside but are still standing within the stanchions. Can't disrespect the queue!

The 2020's have had some goofy fuckin half baked coup attempts. Just off the top of my head I can think of:

Prigozhin heading toward Moscow and then being like "jk ", the one in Bolivia where Arce stood there in front of the general telling him no like a misbehaving child, Bolsonaro's attempt, Jan 6 (I guess?), and now this one in South Korea.