Cognitive Dissonance

66.3K posts

Cognitive Dissonance

@Praetorius42

“I do not wish to be a king; I am not anxious to be rich; I decline military command.. Die to the world, repudiating the madness that is in it” - Tatian

Sol quadrant Se unió Ekim 2011

601 Siguiendo774 Seguidores

Tweet fijado

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·1 Mar

I hear a lot of people talk about Iran’s “Death to America!” chants and whatnot, but often only one side of the story is presented, so here’s some context. x.com/grok/status/20…

Grok@grok

Best general cumulative estimate for Iranian deaths from listed US actions since 1953: 250,000–650,000. Majority from US support prolonging Iran-Iraq War (Iranian deaths 200k–600k total per historians/Wikipedia; US intel/arms/dual-use tech to Iraq enabled stalemate & chem attacks killing 20k+ Iranians). Direct: ~800 (Ajax 200–300, Flight 655: 290, SAVAK ~500 per Abrahamian). Sanctions: thousands in excess mortality from health shortages per studies (broader claims disputed due to internal factors). No single verified total; ranges reflect source variances.

English

522

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·1h

@ChrisMartzWX Reading about "brain in a vat" stuff and the Matrix later bumped me up to the occasional contemplation on this, but I don't think it at all likely

English

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·1h

@ChrisMartzWX Occasionally thought about, since I was eight or so and had the apparently common thought of "What if the colors I see are totally different from the colors everyone else sees, but since we always see them differently in the same way, we just CALL them the same names..? 🤔"

English

Chris Martz@ChrisMartzWX·11h

So. I’m curious. Have any of you ever wondered if nobody else is real and that everything is an illusion?

English

482

364

14.6K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·1h

@umyaznemo This is so antisemitic 😒

English

Cognitive Dissonance retuiteado

Rania@umyaznemo·14h

The reality of Jews in Iran.

English

1.1K

2.3K

43.9K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·1h

@AlwaysWrightDM @LearnToToad “WHAT DO YOU MEAN CAMERAS DON’T ACT JUST LIKE OUR OWN EYES?!”

English

134

Chris Wright 🇺🇸🌎@AlwaysWrightDM·2h

@LearnToToad It's a long exposure photo of the Earth at night. As explained in the post you linked. That's why Spain has night time lights on. If you're confused how a picture taken of the Earth at night can be "so bright", nothing can help you because you don't understand photography

English

827

108.5K

Toad@LearnToToad·4h

Someone want to tell me how the Sun, which is the light source, is behind the Earth here, yet the visible side of the Earth is lit up like it's fucking day time? Is it all fake and gay?

Latest in space@latestinspace

🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

English

1.1K

223

4.3K

3.9M

Cognitive Dissonance retuiteado

Not Jerome Powell@alifarhat79·5h

Wake up babe, a new Iran movie trolling Pete Hegseth just dropped

English

167

1.8K

7.3K

301.6K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·2h

@AlecLace Jewish settlers have killed Americans in occupied Palestine, Alec. Have we hunted them down and killed them? Asking for a friend.

English

Alec Lace@AlecLace·4h

🚨 Reports claim a U.S. F-15 has been downed over Iran. 2 things you can count on: - Our pilots will NEVER be left behind - Those responsible will be killed Pete Hegseth: If you kill Americans, we will hunt you down without apology, without hesitation, and we will kill you.

English

2.3K

1.2K

10.3K

967.5K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·3h

@mandyarthur What are you, some kind of antisemite or something??

English

Mandy Arthur@mandyarthur·14h

How many of the 165 schoolgirls were part of the "Islamic regime"?

Mahyar Tousi@MahyarTousi

Nobody is bombing the nation of Iran. They are bombing the Islamic regime of Iran. Yes, bomb them back to the Stone Age.

English

540

5.5K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·3h

@Partisangirl But they're not even landing, woman!

English

Syrian Girl@Partisangirl·6h

I’m really shocked how little media coverage this moon landing is getting. It could be the first moon landing ever.

NASA@NASA

Flight Day 2 for the @NASAArtemis II mission is winding down as the crew preps for sleep after a busy day. Goodnight Crew. Goodnight Moon. 😴

English

1.1K

926

100.2K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·3h

@TadhgHickey @MahyarTousi our friend Tadhg here is entirely correct, Mahyar - your comment here is beyond asinine and your enabler rhetoric absolutely cringe inducing. I'm not sure how you manage it given that the secondhand embarrassment is painful for me, and I'm entirely unaffiliated

English

Tehran Tadhg@TadhgHickey·10h

The Pahlavists are honestly the most climb-inside-your-own-mouth cringeworthy fuckers on earth

English

139

872

8.7K

Cognitive Dissonance retuiteado

Scott Horton@scotthortonshow·6h

Especially the Moroccans, Yemenis, Ethiopians, Hungarians, Russians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and Germans. Definitely NOT Palestinian Muslims and Christians though. They are from somewhere else or something.

Eli Lake@EliLake

The Jewish people are indigenous to Israel.

English

164

1.3K

21.6K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·3h

@EliLake Even according to the hebrew bible itself, no, they aren't.. the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Joshua should be particularly useful references for you to better educate yourself here, Eli. They carried out a partial conquest of the land reportedly some ~3000 years ago

English

Eli Lake@EliLake·6h

The Jewish people are indigenous to Israel.

English

3.2K

233

2.7K

418.5K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·3h

@kewgardens1 @Lakesdweller @Tarikh_Eran That horse is old and tired and you really need to get off of it as it doesn't work anymore and is, frankly, just boring and stupid. x.com/voiceofrabbis/…

Voice of Rabbis@voiceofrabbis

“We exploit the Holocaust and anti-Semitism to protect Israel from criticism. It is a trick we use” — Shulamit Aloni Former Israeli Minister of Education. In 2000, she won the Israel Prize.

English

Kewgardens@kewgardens1·8h

@Lakesdweller @Praetorius42 @Tarikh_Eran Take your antisemitism with you when you crawl back under that rock.

English

Throwback Iran@Tarikh_Eran·23h

Two things happened in Iran today: 1. An 18 year old was executed by the regime for protesting. 2. A military bridge still under construction and not open to public was hit. Do you know which story got the sympathy/outrage of Leftists and Islamists? The bridge!

English

267

3.7K

11.5K

168.2K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·4h

@nettermike Rubio's a fool but even a stopped clock is right twice a day - this should have been done decades ago.

English

Mike Netter@nettermike·1d

Marco Rubio says "If Europe won’t allow us to use the bases we man and fund for their defense when we need them, we ought to close them down and remove our troops from Europe!" Agree?

English

3.3K

1.5K

5.4K

93.2K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·4h

@SenatorWong This is an ignorant take for multiple reasons and you should put the blame where due and demand an immediate cessation of hostility by the actual aggressor states who initiated this action illegally and unnecessarily against a UN member during active diplomatic negotiations

English

Senator Penny Wong@SenatorWong·21h

Iran is deliberately inflicting economic pain on communities worldwide, including the Indo-Pacific, with the costs borne disproportionately by the most vulnerable. Australia joined partners in condemning the Iranian regime’s weaponisation of the Strait of Hormuz.

English

777

111

295.3K

Senator Penny Wong@SenatorWong·21h

I joined over 40 countries on a call on the Strait of Hormuz as part of Australia’s support for international efforts to reopen the critical waterway. I thank @YvetteCooperMP for convening the meeting with representatives from every continent, and organisations including @IMOHQ.

English

143

649

337K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·4h

@stfuregressives @OrangeFreddyG Modern political zionism and its adherents seem to disagree, at least until the attention becomes inconvenient when it highlights the multitudinous hypocrisies and atrocities involved in achieving its desired outcomes.

English

Shut Up Tankie@stfuregressives·17h

@OrangeFreddyG Palestine is not the center of the fucking universe.

English

74.3K

AIPAC Tracking FreddyG@OrangeFreddyG·1d

You know this woman was super mad at Palestine protestors

Rahsaan Armand ♎️@libra10584

PERIOD, girl…🤓

English

298

6.6K

97.4K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·4h

@DrEliDavid Just like in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other nations we helped "liberate," right Eli? They're all flourishing, and the Iranian people can certainly count on more of the same, indeed! ...you serpents really need to stop spreading your venomous deceptions.

English

Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid·1d

To my Iranian friends: Don't worry about destroyed infrastructure. They can all be rebuilt quickly, and trillions of dollars of foreign investment will pour into a free Iran. Worry about one thing only: If *YOU* don't topple the regime and let it survive.

English

2.7K

12.8K

560.5K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·4h

@Microinteracti1 If they weren't holding back, they'd be demanding we end this action as it is not only unlawful, but was also built on lies and propaganda, birthed in deception and false pretense, and wholly avoidable given the ongoing and productive diplomatic negotiations that were occurring

English

Gandalv@Microinteracti1·9h

A French general just looked at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing. His response: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.” This is the same man who called joining Trump’s war “buying cheap tickets for the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.” The French are not holding back. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

English

1.4K

15.2K

59.2K

2.3M

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·4h

@ProfessorPape I think there's a likely misread here as no one is preparing them for combat roles, and early coverage suggested (rather unsurprisingly) that our military action stirred a 'rally around the flag' sentiment, with people including the young requesting to help as possible

English

Robert A. Pape@ProfessorPape·6h

Disgusting, but powerfully effective in Iran’s war vs Iraq. Shows Iran preparing for same kind of war vs US. In 1980s, Iran lost hundreds of thousands on the battlefield and this stiffened their resolve, killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

English

147

27.1K

Cognitive Dissonance@Praetorius42·4h

@TheAliceSmith ...or is simply indicative of the society in which one lives and the prevailing religious paradigm of the land, regardless of the legitimacy of Christianity

English

Alice Smith@TheAliceSmith·16h

The fact that secularists are hard on Christianity but soft to silent on Islam is ironical evidence for the superiority of Christianity.

English

100

415

4.8K

40.5K

Descubrir

@ChrisMartzWX @umyaznemo @AlwaysWrightDM @LearnToToad @AlecLace @mandyarthur @Partisangirl @TadhgHickey