Cognitive Dissonance

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…

@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

The Jewish people are indigenous to Israel.

@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/…

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

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!

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

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?

@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

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.

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.

@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.

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

You know this woman was super mad at Palestine protestors

@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.

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.

@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

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

@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

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.

@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

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

@LimitlesCobz MSN reporting on this - msn.com/en-us/news/wor…

🚨 THIS IS MASSIVE AND NO ONE IS COVERING IT. Former Navy SEALs and Special Forces operators were running a murder-for-hire program out of a $7,000,000 San Diego mansion. $1,500,000 per month. $40,000 per operator. Bonuses per kill. A lawsuit was just UNSEALED in federal court. Here's what nobody is telling you: 💀 The company was called Spear Operations Group. Incorporated in Delaware. Run by a former commando out of San Diego. 💀 Their client was the UAE government. 23 targets. Multiple confirmed kills. 💀 The team flew chartered jets from New Jersey to carry out assassinations overseas. 💀 They brought body armor, explosives, booby-trapped vehicles, and whiskey. 💀 Drone footage was used for pre-hit reconnaissance and to document the strikes. 💀 The founder admitted everything on record: "There was a targeted assassination program. I was running it. We did it." ⚠️ The US State Department never authorized this. It is illegal under federal law. ⚠️ The operators tried to incorporate into the UAE military as legal cover. It failed. ⚠️ Despite all this, ZERO operators have gone to prison. The lawsuit is from the VICTIM. Do you understand the scale of what's happening? ⚠️ These operators were trained at US taxpayer expense. They then SOLD that training to a foreign government as a marketing pitch for assassination contracts. ⚠️ The target who survived has been living in exile for 10 years. He missed his daughter's graduation. He missed his sister's funeral. ⚠️ The founder's whereabouts? Currently unclear. The operators? Marketing themselves on LinkedIn as "tactical consultants." They're showing you "private security firms protecting US interests." They're NOT showing you that former US special operators are selling assassination services to foreign governments from American soil with near-zero legal consequence. Here's the logic chain: → US trains elite operators at massive cost → Operators go private → Foreign governments buy their services → Operators use US legal cover while executing foreign government hit lists → Victims have no recourse except a lawsuit a decade later → The system that trained them takes no responsibility If this program was illegal, why has no one been prosecuted? If the State Department "never authorized" this, why haven't the operators been charged? Complete silence. This is not a rogue contractor story. This is an accountability crisis — the moment America lost control of the weapons it built.

@LimitlesCobz msn.com/en-us/news/wor…

@LimitlesCobz Source links and direct citations would be incredibly useful - and are arguably necessary - for claims such as this. There's too much constant garbage and misinformation circulating these days to just toss things like this out for everyone to have to independently look up.

@YoniMichanie Mehdi's response is entirely on point, and yours is based on both false assumption and erroneous implication, hyping propaganda and entirely missing true points. Blum reference from 2014, and deaths assessment from Grok: x.com/mehdirhasan/st…

You’re more upset now about a broken bridge than you were when the regime slaughtered 30,000 protestors. Let that sink in.

@MeghanMcCain This is accurate. Only the vast majority of them are the same - only about 1% of the Hill is represented in our military, so Theo's pretty much absolutely correct about the decision makers and war cheerleaders generally not having any real skin in the game.

For whatever it is worth to you both of my brothers serve and my brother Jimmy deployed to Iraq with the marines the first time when he was 17. In fact every man in my family has fought in every American war. Not all politicians families are the same - this is really shitty.

🚨 IRAN JUST OFFERED EUROPE A HORMUZ DEAL. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY JUST TRIGGERED. 🚨 On the surface: Iran offered the EU transit access through the Strait of Hormuz. Sounds like a small diplomatic move. Standard geopolitics. It is not. This is a goddamn financial nuclear bomb. Let that sink in. 💀 The Hormuz Strait carries 20% of ALL the world's oil consumption 💀 Europe's energy bill jumped $16.2 BILLION in just 30 days of war 💀 Natural gas in Europe is up 100%. Oil up 60%. Diesel at $200/barrel 💀 Dollar reserves have already fallen from 70% to 56.9% in 25 years 💀 Iran joined BRICS in 2024. Russia banned dollar transactions. Gold hit $5,500/oz ⚠️ If Europe takes this deal, they pay in euros — not dollars ⚠️ One major non-dollar oil deal is all it takes to show the world it CAN be done Do you understand the scale of what's happening? ⚠️ The petrodollar is the most powerful financial system ever created. Born in 1974. It forced every nation on Earth to hold dollars just to buy oil. That's the entire basis of US financial dominance. Not strength. Not trust. OIL. ⚠️ If that system cracks — BRICS accelerates, Gulf states reconsider, dollar demand collapses, and America can no longer fund its $34 trillion debt on easy terms. The US doesn't lose a battle. It loses the WAR — the financial one it's been winning since 1974. ⚠️ ECB board member Panetta said it on April 2: "Even if the Iran war ends, the damage has been done." Deutsche Bank called the Iran war a "catalyst" for yuan replacing the petrodollar. They're showing you a war about nuclear weapons and regional security. They're NOT showing you that the REAL war is over who gets to print the world's reserve currency. Here's the logic — follow it carefully: → Iran blocks Hormuz for the US. Opens it for EU with a deal. → EU, desperate and bleeding, seriously considers taking the deal. → Deal gets done in euros or yuan. Not dollars. → Every country watching — BRICS, Global South, Gulf states — sees it happen. → "If the EU can bypass the dollar, so can we." → Dollar demand falls. Reserve share collapses. US inflation rises. → You didn't just lose a trade route. You lost the dollar's 50-year monopoly on global trust. If America is so powerful and the dollar is so safe, why is the EU considering a deal with the country America is bombing? If Western unity is so solid, why did 40 countries meet to reopen Hormuz and achieve absolutely nothing? Complete silence. This is no longer just a Middle East war. This is a direct attack on the petrodollar — the system that powers the entire American empire. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 This post is being throttled. Like + RT to keep it alive. ⚠️

@Dan__IL @SalmaYaqoob Regardless any quibbles over his performance in power, which I'd need to look further into to have any useful opinion on, his observations and laments here are beyond noteworthy and an effective canary in the coal mine. Something has gone horribly wrong, pretty much everywhere.

@Praetorius42 @SalmaYaqoob This is a man who as Defence Minister saw video of soldier do sumthing. Rather than waiting 4 due process,he immediately condemned soldier The event happened, twas awful, but first reaction as defence minister should hv been that facts need checking.

Remember all the stories of Jews having to hide in WW2? Israeli troops will be searching the houses of Christians for hidden Muslims. But oh - we are not allowed to make any comparisons with Nazis. Because that might hurt the feelings of genocide supporters.

@KrazoaPalace4 @PrepperCanadian We'd all do well to realize we're generally all much more alike than different and that the people with loud voices and big heads in media, etc., focusing on ourdifferences instead of commonalities to help us focus on the actual root drivers of so much wrong are the bad guys.

@KrazoaPalace4 @PrepperCanadian Absolutely, awareness and developing local community/relationships to minimize reliance on and participation in #TheSystem as much as possible. It's time to wake up and come out of Babylon -we're all in this together with false division and distortion hiding our common threats.

Listen up. Hasty raising of enlistment age. Automating selective service. Arming a selected loyalty caste on military bases. Purging upper ranks. 50% military budget increase while 40 trillion in debt. Calling all generals into a meeting last year. Use your f%CK@N imagination. What do you think a de facto war criminal is preparing for here?

@billiongjgly Why focus on worldly things? It'll only divide your attention and cause you grief. But there's nothing wrong or sinful in it, just remember the "treasures in Heaven" verses Christ spoke. This world is passing away, as we all do, and distracts from greater and truer things

Can someone pls explain this Bible verse to me 😩😩

@KrazoaPalace4 @PrepperCanadian Agreed with all of the above. The thing is what it is, regardless, and needs to be dealt with accordingly. I only wish it seemed to be much less late in the game

@Praetorius42 @PrepperCanadian Regardless of intent, the results are catastrophic and no one's paying the price for it. Instead of caring about their intent, I'd rather assume ill intent so they get punished for the real harms they've caused, and we can worry about if it was a plan all along or not later.