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Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:44PM (#50107339)
Gas prices are solely Israel's fault? You couldn't have said "I am a propagandist" any more clearly, even if you had tried.
Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by Zigurd on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:02PM (#50107611)
You'd have a point in so far that the US president shouldn't be led by the nose by anyone. But here we are.
Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by buellerbueller on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:47PM (#50107373)
>Gas prices are solely Israel's fault? You couldn't have said "I am a propagandist" any more clearly, even if you had tried.

I agree it's a bit of a stretch, but only a bit. Had Israel not gotten the USA on board with the attacks on Iran, I do not think gas prices would be much above their standard seasonally- and inflation-adjusted level, unlike where they have been since the "war" started.

Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:56PM (#50108509)
Was Israel essential for Trump being willing to attack Iran, or would he have been willing to go it alone? Even if Israel was essential, it took two to tango. Israel for sure wasn't going to do this without the US. If Trump had said no (as the previous N US presidents had), then we wouldn't be here. If Trump had listened to analyses saying that Iran would disrupt Hormoz (as there were plenty of analyses that said), then we wouldn't be here.

So I consider the "solely" to be more than just "a bit" of a stretch. There's blame enough to go around, but a massive chunk of the blame rests on the White House.

Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by buellerbueller on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:23PM (#50110484)
>Was Israel essential for Trump being willing to attack Iran

Yes, full stop. Israel attacked Iran before USA attacked Iran.

Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by MC995 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:32PM (#50111822)
>Was Israel essential for Trump being willing to attack Iran, or would he have been willing to go it alone?

Yes to the first question, and no to the second.

Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by squidmaster on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:08PM (#50107707)
It's America's fault.. for electing a zionist traitor of a president who takes orders from Israel.
Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by newspaper1 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:15PM (#50107855)
It's complicated when all election options are beholden to Zionist interests. I think many Americans are in denial about how dire the situation is. If you voted for Trump, you are responsible for what he is doing because it was clear he was compromised but! if you voted Biden you would also be responsible because it was clear he was compromised.

This isn't conjecture, both of these presidents have been openly operating for Israel. Biden even went on live tv and lied about seeing 40 beheaded babies.

You basically have Tomas Massie and Rashida Tlaib as the only mainstream politicians that are actually standing up to the Zionist takeover of our government. It's hard to say what the way out of this mess looks like, but voting for a Zionist in Zionist controlled elections is not it.

Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:56PM (#50108512)
Rashida Tlaib is mainstream? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by newspaper1 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:01PM (#50108585)
She's literally a sitting US representative for Michigan.
Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:21PM (#50110457)
So is Jim Jordan, the ultra-MAGA ideologue from Ohio. (He may not even be the most extreme, he's just the one that first came to mind.) If being a representative automatically makes you mainstream, they both are. And at that point, "mainstream" is more like "main river" or "main ocean" - it's so broad that it's meaningless.

Tlaib is one of the four most-extreme-left members of the House. I claim that that makes her not mainstream, for any reasonable definition. She sure is not in the mainstream of the House!

Re:Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero... by newspaper1 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:46PM (#50110799)
She's mainstream, just because you don't agree with her doesn't mean she's not. Trump is also mainstream, I don't agree with him but he is. We're not talking about podcasters or people xeroxing newsletters, these are elected officials.