CNN now admits it lied about infants being beheaded.
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I keep seeing this go back and forth. Confirmed, then walked back like 2 or 3 times now. My wife is convinced it is true, and got upset that I was skeptical.
That’s how emotional manipulation makes for such insidious propaganda, it turns family against itself
''They're lying'' should be where you start from.
Be sure to draw parallels to other historical examples of such bullshit, i.e. in the two Iraq wars.
All you need to say to that is pretty simple: "And what if this isn't different?"
The issue should never be doubt. The issue should always be those that blindly support. To err on the side of caution is not just human, but the right approach to just about anything.
Babies thrown out of incubators in Kuwait. Viagra handed out to Libyan forces by Gadaffi. Germans raping nuns in Belgium.
I got the same story from a friend. I reminded him that they said the Germans were spearing babies with bayonets in World War I and I wasn't going to believe it without video proof. He said there was video, so where is it?
All the normies have seen horrible things from this conflict. Hundreds of bodies lying around, Israeli babies tossed around like footballs by Hamas, women raped... I've seen people claiming witness to all these. Apparently on Facebook you can see all this shit Just Before It Got Deleted (tm).
I guess I was going to the wrong source, scrolling war gore threads on /pol/ for days, because all the violence I saw was a couple of dead bodies being abused, a couple of hostages being roughed up, and a woman with mud/blood on her sweatpants.
Fascinating!
Jews? Lying? Perish the thought!
Dosen't matter the lie was exposed if nobody punishes Israel for carpet-bombing Gaza.
A true genius of our times
Ugh, that sort or error makes my head hurt.
/boneappletea
Well well well
Could it possibly be that our culture has developed the ability to debunk war propaganda in real time?
First question I had was: "okay, where is this from?"
Answer: "A report"
eeehhhhhhhh... That's gonna be real sketchy until anyone can actually show us anything.
But I thought Diamond Joe had seen the photos
I mean the pictures are there, you can see them for yourself. What actually happened is a bunch of normal people saw a pile of mutilated babies and thought they'd been beheaded. What actually happened was the bodies were in such bad shape they can't even tell what happened to the head in a lot of cases.
This is a typical Tuesday behind planned parenthood.
Well, except for the AI generated image Ben Shapiro is passing around...
I don't doubt that kids have been killed, but I don't believe anything coming from the moiths of war profiteers.
The babies were shot in the head in their cribs, yes?
What Hamas did was brutal and violent enough to have any gut wrenching photos for an entire campaign.
So any embellishment or exaggeration should be met with extreme scrutiny, because it means they are trying to sell you more than just a "response action" and are trying to get you worked up enough to not question anything else.
A rocket or grenade landing in an area where kids are playing, and then you get something unsurprising, but not something a normie would have any reference to.
This is why you don't trust initial reporting.
I don't doubt that there were babies killed in exceptionally horrible ways in that attack, because that's what modern jihadis do, but the 40 babies story was obviously a hysterical lie.
That's really it. No one should seriously doubt this could have actually happened to some extent, but the sheer level they were trying to sell it at made it completely nonsensical to even the slightest thought.
I think a Missile strike would do more than behead the baby. Israel pretends to be 'holier than thou' by not getting its hands dirty by using long range weapons.
It's hilarious. They don't have to lie to get everybody to understand that Hamas and their ilk are animals, but they do anyway. It's just in their nature.
Urinalists reporting on something from their allies: "It's absolutely true and confirmed, they said so and that should be good enough for you, peasant!"
Urinalists reporting on something from their enemies: "It's a lie, per the absolute true and confirmed words of our allies responding to it."
So Israel is trying to hide the fact their people were brutally murdered but at the same time wanting sympathy/support for the attack? Either the Deep State/NWO is breaking apart in some weird shadow Civil War or everyone is completely idiotic.
They're lying should be the default. They've done it so many times now that it's hard to take what they say at face value. Especially if it's shocking.
"The first casualty of war is the truth." Same shit from here to eternity.
Best thing for me is to ignore wise guy comments on the war and the shameless cheerleading for one side or the other.
As with the Ukrainian insanity, the truth has a way of slipping out once the initial hard-ons for death and destruction subside and the usual suspects say what we expect them to say.
I could imagine Israelis doing it and blaming it on the palestinians. That's their MO
Bitch, you probably weren't saying this when entire families were being wiped out because of the lies of Socialists & Hamas.
This is why you don't spread lies, even if you think it helps you initially: it will be used to white wash actual atrocities committed against your side, and then you will be told that you're crying wolf when you report what happened accurately.