Iranian AI Video - discuss

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Iranian AI Video - discuss

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I admire the creativity and it's not completely wrong, all empires grow and expand by crushing the weaker. It also isolates US aggression from context so I don't think it will win any journalism awards.
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Last time Islamic extremist flew something into a NYC landmark and knocked it down, America went to war for 20 years.
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R7ehr wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2026 8:21 pm Last time Islamic extremist flew something into a NYC landmark and knocked it down, America went to war for 20 years.
The Statue of Liberty doesnt have 3000 innocent lives in it that would be killed like on 9/11
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More war-time propaganda. It bears a strong resemblance to the propaganda pieces disseminated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s.
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Sadly, everything in the video is true in that the U.S. has very bad things in its history. However, the video is propaganda, as the Iranian government has killed close to thirty thousand of its own citizens for protesting and other infractions. The symbolism in the video backs up their mantra, "death to America". U.S. Islamic foes pretending to be "more moral" than the U.S. is just stupid.
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The Iranians might be winning the AI video wars.
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To be clear, this is propaganda intended to incite a particular emotional response. But what’s interesting is that it shows how others view the US — others don’t see us as the good guys we think we are.
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Szdfan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2026 8:06 am To be clear, this is propaganda intended to incite a particular emotional response. But what’s interesting is that it shows how others view the US — others don’t see us as the good guys we think we are.
Believe it or not, the Iranian regime is interested in portraying propaganda that doesn't portray the U.S. as the good guys, and the Chinese Communist Party also do the same. Here is one of their videos:



The level of defending of the Iranian regime (and, by extension, the Chinese Communist party and the Russian regime) on MennoNet is quite interesting.
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I’m sure that the oil-hungry nations of China and Russia are helping what’s left of the IRGC by creating this propaganda in the hopes of keeping their own needs met.
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