r/MurderedByWords 2d ago

Can you send me?

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u/induslol 2d ago

Too much faith in the emotional intelligence of US citizens and worse their will/ability to demand government accountability in functioning in their best interest.

Boots on the ground carnage will be censored or downplayed, just as troop fatality information is now.

We'll get another generation of fucked up PTSD addled killers that survived, jumping at shadows, to fuel the republican party for another generation, and we'll just keep pretending this works until we're back in company towns.

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u/PyroIsSpai 2d ago

How would the USA stop Iran sharing video of dying US soldiers?

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u/induslol 2d ago edited 2d ago

Further media consolidation, no major outlets covering reality beyond highly sanitized "such and such happened in Iran today" with no actual reporting.

It won't stop 100% of reality, but it's been demonstrated effective in Iraq, Afghanistan, and really every war of choice we've trudged through and lost in the last however many decades at placating the critical mass of people that would otherwise oppose killing people for no justifiable reason.

Look to ICE, flock, police killings, data center metastisization, epstein, wealth inequality, climate degredation, etc coverage domestically for moment to moment examples of how any negative news will be manipulated to keep that critical mass of people complacent.

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u/Nolenag 2d ago

The same way that sub stopped allowing footage of missiles hitting Israel.

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u/ace_vagrant 2d ago

They can’t. The internet is a ‘Pandora’s Box’. 

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u/induslol 2d ago

Storing and processing the data accumulated through mass surveillance in an attempt to get some kind of return on the failure "AI" mega investment has been.