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AlabamaHotcakes Mar 27, 2026 +57

I mean they have so much to work with it's not really a fair fight.

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Made_Human_Music Mar 27, 2026 +65

Come on, at least call it Slopaganda. It’s so obvious

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Enteril Mar 27, 2026 +23

They do in the article.

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Made_Human_Music Mar 27, 2026 +11

Good, now I can rest easy. 😀 And that’s what I get for not taking the minute or two to read an article

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Smoremonger Mar 27, 2026 +4

I also didn't read the article and I also immediately texted someone to say WHY DON'T THEY SAY SLOPAGANDA. It's RIGHT THERE You and I can both take the rest of the day off now, man

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ShartingEnU Mar 27, 2026 +1

I don't get why people comment about an article by just reading the headline.

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Bulawayoland Mar 27, 2026 +2

Slopaganda I more are coming

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Specialist-Clock-914 Mar 27, 2026

That’s how I feel about Bropagandha

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Reasonable-Ad-2592 Mar 27, 2026 +36

Americans have no idea how much they are losing in nearly every thinkable respect. Ask a European or any normal person.

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Atmosck Mar 27, 2026 +32

No we are very much aware

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One_Disaster_5995 Mar 27, 2026 +12

I don't think most of you do, because it's still happening.

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gargar7 Mar 27, 2026 +25

A good ten percent of us are highly engaged in watching our downfall :(

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One_Disaster_5995 Mar 27, 2026 +8

I think most of the world is. We're just amazed to watch it happening this publicly - and asking ourselves "why isn't anyone doing anything? Are they just going to let this happen?"

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MisanthOptics Mar 27, 2026 +4

Unfortunately we have a political system without any mechanism for early elections, no-confidence votes, or recalls of almost any sort. It is also designed to limit the power of population centers. So all of these marches that the Euros advocate for are really just preaching to the choir. All our hopes are on the mid-terms in November … and that’s not a great place to be

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One_Disaster_5995 Mar 27, 2026 +3

I'm just wondering what you're going to do if the midterms somehow don't go as you are hoping they'll go.

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MisanthOptics Mar 27, 2026 +2

That’s what I’m trying to say. The system doesn’t really allow us to have backup plans for our backup plans. So November may be the last chance to save the American experiment

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One_Disaster_5995 Mar 27, 2026 +3

Well, fingers crossed, but I think history has shown that it takes more than good old democracy to fight fascism.

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MisanthOptics Mar 28, 2026 +1

Thanks. Not ready to hope for a return to a (selectively) benevolent monarchy to fight facsism yet 😂

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510Goodhands Mar 28, 2026 +2

So far, especially elections in state elections, the Democrats have been trouncing Republicans, even in red states they have long been GOP strongholds. So there is some hope. People in the Trump administration are worrying out loud that they will be indicted if the Democrats win the House and the Senate in the midterms this year. At least half the country is rubbing their hands together in anticipation, and there are an awful lot of former Trump supporters that feel betrayed .

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One_Disaster_5995 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Yes, and I can't wait to see what the midterms will bring! Hope, I hope. There are also clear signs though that this administration will do anything they can to save their asses, including voter suppression and downright fraud. If they manage to gut the democratic process, what picture does that paint for the future? A bleak and scary one I'm sure.

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Even-Selection-5403 Mar 27, 2026 +3

It's like we as a nation have the passerby effect, except we're on fire and are just taking selfies in a mirror.

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Bulawayoland Mar 27, 2026 +2

...well, but think it through for a minute. Imagine how fucked we would be if all this were happening and we DIDN'T have the power to rise up. Right? Woah. Thank god for democracy.

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One_Disaster_5995 Mar 27, 2026

Do you though? Then what's keeping you?

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Bulawayoland Mar 27, 2026 +3

...say, I went to jail for protesting Trump. Apparently the 1st Amendment does not bar local governments from making it illegal to post political fliers on public property, and the police are well aware of the Constitution and yet will enforce these laws anyway. I've suggested again and again that all we really need to do is get a few constitutional amendments going around, and that would cool Trump's jets permanently, but apparently all these people who feel so outraged about his antics aren't quite outraged enough to get involved in something so potentially EFFECTIVE. God forbid we should tie the hands of our military, and prevent them from committing mass murder!

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TO_halo Mar 27, 2026 +1

Because of the reality of the American situation: they have made it next to impossible to remove a President from office. Other countries have designed their political systems to make it easy; America has done the opposite. Every day, more things happen that highlight the flaws in their current system: Trump can and does do whatever he wants. No one with any power cares to do anything. There is no line he hasn’t crossed at this point, no one cares. It is unlikely this system will change, because both sides are afraid to yield power. It’s a political Cold War.

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zeroaphex Mar 27, 2026 +1

Land mass for one. I've often seen comparisons of how French people would be in the streets shouting and rioting for far less than what is currently being tolerated. And my biggest counterpoint to that is that it's not really a fair comparison given the shear land mass. France is about the size of Texas, +/- 10%. For someone in anytown, USA to even get to a place where the scene they make would impact people that could even possibly make a difference is more akin to crossing all of Europe, from say Portugal to Belarus, WITHOUT Europe's well developed rail system. There are absolutely local protests every day throughout the US that do not make international, or even national news. But they don't have an impact. I live in CT, and going to the state capital (Hartford) to protest the administration is about as effective as me writing this comment, in terms of impact. Second would be cost, the average American doesn't have the resources to make a trip like that to DC to protest. Between the money, time, transportation, lodging, and time that would have to be taken off of work, its a near insurmountable task for many.

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Gackey Mar 28, 2026 +1

13 million people live in Paris, 18% of France's population lives in one city. 20 million people live in NYC, that's less than 6% of the US's population. Europeans do not comprehend how massive and sparsely populated the US is.

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Gekokapowco Mar 27, 2026 +1

Nazi Germany should really just knock it off, aren't they aware how ridiculous they look right now? kinda vibe

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scene_missing Mar 27, 2026 +5

You’re confusing hating what’s going on with having the power right now to stop it, unfortunately. We’re trying. The morons having a trifecta genuinely means they can do what they want for two years.

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One_Disaster_5995 Mar 27, 2026 +2

You're putting an awful lot of faith in your democratic process. Let's see how the midterms work out.

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510Goodhands Mar 28, 2026 +1

Americans can’t control idiots in government, any more than Europeans or any other people countries can. That’s too bad, because it’s so easy to be in America basher from afar.

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One_Disaster_5995 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Idiots in office are powered by idiots in the streets.

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Reasonable-Ad-2592 Mar 27, 2026 -3

I think that even the intelligent and sensitive Americans who still exist are unable to fathom the abyss that is created by the evil of your country.

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Pale_Fire21 Mar 27, 2026 +5

Many of them genuinely believe if they vote really hard for a Democrat next election everything will go back to normal and this will be seen as an anomalous blip before everything goes back to how to the status quo that was pre Trump. They genuinely believe this.

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blazesquall Mar 27, 2026 +3

But that status quo was also evil, which I think is the other posters point.. and most people think it wasn't, which is the problem.

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Pale_Fire21 Mar 27, 2026 +5

That’s also my point

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Turbulent_Pin7635 Mar 27, 2026 +6

Brazilian living in Europe. Whenever people see an American the feeling is of pity/disgusting. That's all. No other feeling.

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Even_Trifle9341 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Talked to a German tourist that thought the boarded up houses and businesses was unusual. Hard to explain it’s pretty common across the country.

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All_Hail_Hynotoad Mar 27, 2026 +2

Oh, we know. We are very embarrassed.

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Tossawaysfbay Mar 27, 2026 -3

Are mundane and repetitive comments the thing you think will drive that home? How are the Germans doing these days?

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Reasonable-Ad-2592 Mar 27, 2026 +6

As long as US Americans are not freaking out and making a general strike, you will probably have to read more comments that bore you. Perhaps it is part of the problem that Americans seem to prefer entertainment to truth.

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Ancient_Popcorn Mar 27, 2026 -1

General strikes are nigh impossible in America. People can’t take time off work like you can in most of the world.

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Reasonable-Ad-2592 Mar 27, 2026 +4

Land of the Free and the Brave.

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plightro Mar 27, 2026 +5

The people we'd be striking against are the ones who keep it that way.

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Golden-Owl Mar 27, 2026 +3

Everytime I hear this, I’m baffled. Do Americans think strikes are like applying for holiday leave or something…? Strike means **stopping all work**.

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Ancient_Popcorn Mar 27, 2026 +5

Yeah, but in most other countries that are better than us, workers have protections. They don’t get fired for not showing up. They don’t lose their insurance for losing their job. They don’t end up without food because we keep stripping welfare benefits. Foreigners forget how well protected their citizenry is versus America. You guys have worker rights that actually protect workers. You have a public healthcare option that guarantees healthcare without it being tied to employment. You have generous time off guarantees that most Americans don’t get.

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ottho Mar 27, 2026 +1

They had to fight to get those rights... Before that they were often in an even worst place than you americans are today. Stop making excuses, you just dont want to do shit, you're okay with what's happening to your country.

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Gekokapowco Mar 27, 2026 -2

you're saying "just man up and inflict a famine, potentially civil war upon yourselves"? And wonder why that seems like an unappealing proposition? Do you know what those things are?

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ottho Mar 28, 2026 +2

Then dont change course, just become a dictatorship, f*** the world up, splinter into technofeudal states... That's the plan right ? You'll get the same things, civil war etc, just worst. You just want to do nothing and get your prefered outcome... well other people have other plans, and are actually working towards those. Doing something will hurt ? Well doing nothing to counter them will hurt way more. You read project 2025 ?

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Tossawaysfbay Mar 27, 2026 -3

That’s on you for being uninformed about what Americans are doing. Perhaps you’d prefer we be like the French and protest performatively?

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Mediocre_Comedian739 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Anything’s better than being complicit. Americans judged the Germans. They weren’t allowed to blame one man and nor can Americans.

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Tossawaysfbay Mar 28, 2026

Sure they did. Just like they do to this day right? Everyone’s always thinking random German citizens are terrible in 2026 right? It’s also really easy to tell who supported or ignored the Nazis back then via their living descendants, right? Super simple and easy to see?

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Mediocre_Comedian739 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Other than whining what is your point? Are you suggesting the Germans weren’t judged? They looked at their own history and were honest about it and still are. If they hadn’t, the world would have reminded them. But it was the Americans that rubbed their noses in their crimes. You are being judged as a collective and that will continue. Stop making excuses for the inexcusable.

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Mediocre_Comedian739 Mar 28, 2026 +2

It was the Americans that rubbed the Germans noses in it but for convenience didn’t do the same with the Japanese or the Soviet Union. They got rewarded for their barbarity.

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Spamgrenade Mar 27, 2026 +1

Germany has managed not to go on the rampage in the middle east for quite a long time.

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No_Celery_5373 Mar 27, 2026 +11

To be fair, it's hard for the American team to win this one ~ Fascists tend to not have a great imagination or much love for humor or arts, videos of Trump dropping poop from a jet are really only funny to his brainless worshippers. Meanwhile, the gag lines about your pedophile president pretty much write themselves.

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PhillyPhrenetic502 Mar 27, 2026 +4

Not to mention that most serious Americans who actually care about fixing problems with this country stopped giving a shit about the Russian/MAGA/Tech-troll shitty memes a long time ago. That's the genius of attacking America with these stupid videos. The only Americans who will care are the ones who already treat bullshit AI propaganda like clout and currency and it's directed right at their feelings.

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KHRZ Mar 27, 2026 +4

Iran is winning the propaganda war because Trump didn't bother to make a case for why regime change could help Iran. Instead he came forward and admitted he is just a simple thief who wants to steal other countries' resources. (see: Venezuela, Kharg Island invasion plan). With such overwhelming poor optics for the US, Iranian propaganda has a very easy job - Trump already personally published all the anti-US propaganda Iran could ever need.

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404mediaco Mar 27, 2026 +3

An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone [viral online](https://www.instagram.com/p/DWR17rhAhzl/?ref=404media.co). The video is the work of Iran-based propagandists called the “Explosive News Team” and is just the latest in a long line of AI-generated LEGO videos aimed at mocking Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. LEGO-themed propaganda isn’t new and the Iranian video plays on familiar wartime propaganda themes. What’s different in 2026 is speed and scale. During World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, America’s enemies littered the battlefield with pamphlets, cartoons, and radio broadcasts aimed at shaking the morale of American troops, but that stuff rarely got back home. Now, Iran can use AI tools to produce lavishly animated cartoons at scale for dissemination across social media all aimed at the US homefront. The latest “Explosive News Team” video is set to a catchy rap song about how Trump is a LOSER and millions of people are watching it across multiple platforms. At the same time Iran is releasing AI-generated videos of Trump drowning in a river of blood, the US Department of Homeland Security is sharing [fashwave filtered](https://www.vice.com/en/article/trumpwave-fashwave-far-right-appropriation-vaporwave-synthwave/?ref=404media.co) pictures of [Gen Z ICE agents](https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2036971552244162959?ref=404media.co) milling around airports. Iran’s use of LEGO set rap music tells me it’s been studying us. These are videos meant for the American people crafted in a language Iran knows we’ll understand. Meanwhile, the White House is dropping *Grand Theft Auto* and *Call of Duty* memes that were out of fashion 10 years ago on Listnook and vague-posting pixelated images of Trump like it’s running an ARG. Iran is attempting to speak to the broader American public. Trump is confident he only has to impress the online freaks he thinks still love him. To be clear, it speaks to how bad things are online that we need to analyze whose AI disinformation and propaganda is “better,” and, in general, the slopification of the internet has been a disaster. And yet, the stuff Iran is making is resonating and spreading online in a way that Trump’s slop is not. We do not know who, specifically, is making the Iranian AI slop or which tools they are using to make it. But the fact that Iranian AI slop is resonating with Americans while American slop is not should perhaps not be surprising; for the last several years, the most successful purveyors of AI slop [have largely been based in foreign countries](https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/), where they have been incentivized to make content that specifically targets American audiences because of the [way that social media ad rates work](https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/). Read more: [https://www.404media.co/iran-is-winning-the-ai-slop-propaganda-war/](https://www.404media.co/iran-is-winning-the-ai-slop-propaganda-war/)

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DistractedPhoenix Mar 27, 2026 +2

It’s crazy too, because the Trump admin is black belt proficient

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Jesse-359 Mar 27, 2026 +2

Not really a challenge. Trump's worst enemy on the global stage is his own mouth.

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DT-Sodium Mar 27, 2026 +4

They did a pretty bad job at showing how digusting Trump physically is though.

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soralan Mar 27, 2026 +1

Jabba the hut minifig with Trump hair would fix that, maybe have it leave a trail of feaces and burger wrappers.

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NIA122553 Mar 27, 2026 +5

Not that I don't think we deserve to be humiliated at this point, but I really wish i didn't see some liberal/left accounts pushing this slopaganda. You can oppose the war without giving it up for the AI slop produced by a theocratic authoritarian regime that has been massacring people for decades.

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Specialist-Clock-914 Mar 27, 2026 +2

The only thing I would argue is that they seem to be a lot more creative with their use vs ours which is just blatant rip offs and sloppier.

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blazesquall Mar 27, 2026 +1

Which country engaged in this hasn't been massacring people for decades? Are we going by body count solely? You'd prefer we only regurgitate what our government tells us?

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Even_Trifle9341 Mar 27, 2026

Morality by body count wouldn’t have the US anywhere near the top.

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blazesquall Mar 27, 2026 +2

Wanna bet..? We're operating at a baseline of ~500,000. Add all of the conflicts of choice we've engaged in, throw in the rest of systemic hegemony (indirect war deaths, economic sanctions, preventable domestic deaths due to policy), we're probably at the top.

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Pegasus7915 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Hard agree.

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LatterTarget7 Mar 27, 2026

Yeah I’ve seen way too many people just outright supporting the regime. You can be anti trump or anti Israel without being pro Iran or pro axis of resistance.

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blazesquall Mar 27, 2026 +4

> pro axis of resistance What are they resisting?

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LatterTarget7 Mar 27, 2026 -1

Apparently innocent civilians in Lebanon, Syria, iraq and Yemen considering the amount of atrocities they’ve committed funded by Iran

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blazesquall Mar 27, 2026 +3

Anyone else over there committing atrocities? Anyone funding those?

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Overall_Author6751 Mar 27, 2026 +2

Operation Epstein's Fury!

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cybaz Mar 27, 2026 +1

Is anyone really winning this, it seem that we are all the losers

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Manglerr Mar 27, 2026 +1

What's weird about this is how once the narrative needs to be that Trump is bad the AI slop stops pumping pro maga stuff. Really tickles your noggin

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jgreddit2019 Mar 27, 2026 +1

_I’ll allow it meme_

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wynveen Mar 27, 2026 +1

We all see it here on Listnook

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futurefighter49 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Rucka rucka Ali is going to drop some shit on both of them, and Israel

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Turbulent_Pin7635 Mar 27, 2026

Iran is winning.

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Bakedads Mar 27, 2026 -3

Anyone using AI just looks like an idiot

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jtrev59 Mar 27, 2026

Yeah but only cause they can shut off the internet in their borders and suppress their own people

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thistimelineisweird Mar 27, 2026 -2

Hey if this kills AI I am all for it. Sad thing is I think most people actually agree with Iran's AI slop.

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Overall_Author6751 Mar 27, 2026 +2

Begun, the pedo-wars have.

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thistimelineisweird Mar 27, 2026 +2

I mean, none of those are wrong though.

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dontwanna-cantmakeme Mar 27, 2026 -1

Be honest, these aren’t slop. They’re masterpieces.

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