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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The US attacks a Venezuelan boat in international waters, Israel attacks a Portuguese boat in Tunisian waters.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Read about Operation Wooden Leg. They bombed tunisia in 85 with 15 fighter jets. 68 has died

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is terrorism, terrorism perpetrated by the same authorities that use everything as a leverage to counter terrorism. Our governments are rigged to the core and evil, it's about time people comes to term with it.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It's not terrorism if the government does it. /s

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Check the propaganda on r/worldnews people because it's insane

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Previous Lemmy post said it was an Israeli drone and Greta thunberg was on board. Then there was some debate over whether there was a drone or not.

For those of us who don’t want to go to Reddit, what is r/worldnews saying?

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How does this person watch the video of a flaming object clearly falling from the sky and come to the conclusion that it started on the boat?

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ill give you a hint, it rhymes with “gastroturfing”

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

gastroturfing

You mean like when you cover your yard in vomit?

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Gastroturfing sounds like it would be a portmanteau for when terrible restaurants pad their reviews online with fake ones, so they look better than they are

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

To distract from how their awful food made you cover your yard in vomit 🤝

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Sounds like the ghost kitchens that were popular during COVID. Iirc places like Applebee's would create branding for a new business (cosmic wings in Applebee's case) and just sell Applebee's products via door dash under that new 'exotic' name.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

Well that's a new term I don't think we needed.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The same way they can make a statement like "they can lie like this and know they will lose zero international support" while defending Israel. Every accusation is a confession with these people.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Reddit is ran by Israel.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

In one video you can hear the buzz of a drone getting closer until explosion, in other you can see a flaming object falling straight down exactly like an incendiary device dropped from a drone. The only way could be more obvious is if the drone itself was on video.

Went a head and had a look. And I thought the cognitive dissonance on Instagram was bad.

"Guys it's just the unfortunate result of war"

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A lot of denial, victim blaming and screeching about fake news.

In fact, the only front page article I see on that subreddit is of Tunisia denying that the flotilla was hit by a drone.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Israel is a misserable terrorist country, US is misserable terrorist harboring country. What a time to be alive.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There was also a manufactured outrage on tik tok of some white girl crying on a plane because she misspoke at the airport and thought she was going "to Nice" and was actually being sent to Tunis AFRICA!!!

Then everyone reacts, calling her dumb and racist and talking about how cool Tunis is, so when you search on tik tok for Tunis, you just get the drama about this instead of war crimes...

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

Doesn't look to be a drone, but a flare coming down?