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The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign

hk1337: Siding with a dictatorial regime that’s murdered 100s of their own people and aided terrorist organizations because you both hate the same person is absurd.

cryptoegorophy: Today’s world is messed up. Look at EU leaders rubbing shoulders with Syrian president/ex-terrorist.

lenerdenator: Today's?We were shuffling capital to China after Tiananmen Square. People were talking about how we should have left Saddam alone because of how "orderly" Iraq was under his boot. Europeans were happy to ink the plans for Nordstream 2 after Russia sent tanks into Georgia, and Russia received no less than a FIFA World Cup and Olympic games after seizing Crimea.There is incredibly little will to stick to the whole "humans have rights and we should have a rules-based international order" when the rubber meets the road.

acessoproibido: rules-based international order is mostly a propaganda term that the Us empire invented. It also was mostly "rules for thee but not for me"Its a nice thing in theory but in practice power always overruled morals and I think the current US admin not only freely admits this but also kind of rubs your nose in it. In a way its less hypocritical than previously but also incredibly sobering for someone who grew up in a seemingly more "stable" world

platinumrad: I agree with you on principle, but you're oversimplifying things if you think it's all about a single person.

prh8: What about the dictatorial regime that's bombing schools, falsely imprisoned tens of thousands, murdered far more than 100s, openly admitting to international war crimes?

josefritzishere: I appreciate that this statement accurately describes all three regimes primarily involved without naming one.

sschueller: I would be interested to know how these are made on a technical level. Is it a combination of several tools and are they local or some service (I would think LEGO minifigs would trigger some copyright issue)? I also assume you need to do certain things to keep the consistency and somehow sync the music with the video?

virgildotcodes: It was quite obvious, but this is a noteworthy example of just how much more effective propaganda will become with AI.These videos are blowing up on Twitter.I personally found the one about Pete Hegseth quite well made and the song actually catchy.

blackcatsec: people were worried about deepfakes with AI but instead the propaganda is doing pretty well, and arguably better, when it's not a deepfake but instead silly, catchy, youthful, and is playing up existing beliefs. The invasion is deeply unpopular in the US, and these videos only serve to amp that up.

baggy_trough: Invasion?

chaostheory: Ground troops are going to be deployed

baggy_trough: That would be a precondition, yes.

imdsm: I watched "One Battle After Another" and it shows how deranged people are. I don't think its a new thing, I just think in any stable society, people who don't thrive eventually find a way to destroy the society in the hope whatever comes next will serve them better. In a society where hard work and intelligent gives you an advantage, it stands to reason that lazy, stupid people will need to play differently in order to win.I can't wait to read wikipedia in 30 years.

delis-thumbs-7e: > In a society where hard work and intelligent gives you an advantageWhich society is this, Sweden? Xi Jinping is pretty smart and hard working, is China being demolished by lazy dumb twats? Because it seems to me its US that is overrun bu stupidity and sheer lazyness right now, but it seems to be because it rewards people like Musk, Trump etc.

edgyquant: Who exactly are you talking about?

barbazoo: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...> On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12

barbazoo: Check out the history behind this and how the US has treated Iran because of their Oil for almost a hundred years now. This is 100% on the west in my opinion. We've been abusing these people for the longest time.

dmos62: It's almost funny how both of these descriptions can apply to either country.

alberto-m: Churchill and Eisenhower beg to disagree. When everyone is bad, you focus on restraining the most powerful actor first.

some_random: Deepfakes were never necessary, people have been making incredible propaganda forever though the same few tactics. For instance, presenting footage out of context.

titanomachy: You probably have to wait 2 more years to see if they're really a dictatorship, for the time being at least they still have an electoral mandate.

platinumrad: The Trump regime is still borderline, but I think it's fair to call Netanyahu a dictator at this point.

Mikhail_Edoshin: There was an interview with a historian and he said an interesting thing about the ancient Sparta: "Everything we know about Sparta we know from its enemies".

regularization: > Siding with a dictatorial regimeRight, Iran used to have a parliament with Mossadegh as prime minister, what happened there? Oh yaa, Mossadegh wanted Iranian oil for Iranians, so the US and UK overthrew Mossadegh, with the help of conservative mullahs, and installed a dictatorship. Then SAVAK with CIA help spent decades slaughtering the secular opposition.> that’s murdered 100s of their own peopleThere are armed Balochi and Kurdish separatists shooting at the Iranian army right now, no doubt with clandestine Israeli and US support. Incidentally the Kurds had their own state at the end of WWII, until the US and UK made them dissolve into Iran.Also aside from the bombings, the Basij have been fired on from the ground and have fired back. Who is arming the people shooting at the Basij is unknown, but some signs point to Israel.> and aided terrorist organizationsThe Arabs in southern Lebanon and the Gaza strip have lived there a long time. Over the past century Zionist Jews from around the world have been invading their land, shooting, bombing, starving them. If they fight back the epithelial terrorist is applied to them, and if these brave men fighting for their people are assigned the word, it gives it a great esteem.

adrian_b: When I first heard about the protests in Iran, I assigned automatically the blame on the dictatorial regime.Nevertheless, after the following events and after extra information provided by the US government itself, this is no longer so clear cut.The truth is that we do not really know what happened in Iran, how many have been killed and whether that was really an internal protest against the regime or a coup attempt organized by USA.The timing of the protests is too suspicious. The most plausible hypothesis is that US/Israeli agents have initiated the protests by influencing a great number of well-intended internal opponents of the regime, who probably have suffered then most from this action.If some of the opposition had received US weapons, that can explain the paranoia of the dictatorial regime, even if there is little doubt that the retaliations against the opposition must have affected many who had no ties with USA or Israel.Until credible information will surface about what really happened in Iran at the beginning of the year, we can affirm only that it is likely that the dictatorial regime has killed or tortured many non-violent opponents, but there is nothing certain about this.On the other hand, the unprovoked crimes committed by USA since the beginning of the year against countries like Iran or Cuba are certain facts, about which there exists no doubt whatsoever.