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[–] [email protected] 213 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do you know what else terrorists use all over the world? Cars! How long will we allow these dangerous contraptions to be freely available?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So that's why the US banned Toyota Hyluxes.

It's not. The real reason is so much stupider. IIRC it happened partially because of eggs.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

You are now an admin on /c/fuckcars

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cars have legit gotten somewhat popular as a rampage weapon in Europe. I think knives are still number one but there's a trend for sure.

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 week ago (6 children)

How deep do you need to be in the propaganda to think like that?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I remember the early 2000s when basically 90% of all Americans were absolutely certain that jihadists were going to attack their local supermarket any minute now because Power Cable, Nebraska was such a strategic target.

Heck, there was a bomb scare because of an advertisement campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force that involved placing PCBs with LEDs on them that would display characters from the show. Because surely Al Quaeda would put conspicuous LED displays on their bombs.

News media want people to panic so they keep tuning in. Panicked people tend to come up with remarkably stupid scenarios like "Al Quaeda have unlimited resources and can show up anywhere to shoot people at random" or "Hamas want to take Dorcester as a strategic location to strike at Israel from".

[–] Rusty 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I remember in 2008 when Putin was invading Georgia (the country) there were some confused and scared people from Georgia (US state).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Ah the 20 upvotes to 14 down. Good ol' reliable internet.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I literally had an old lady tell me that black lives matter was going to take over destroy the UK and take over Britain. Like the organisation. There are some people that are so deep in right-wing newspaper and Facebook shit that they will unironically spout something like that.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I lot of people are like this. They don't conceive a world outside their own. When I was in grade school, so many people in my hometown thought that... we were going to be the next Columbine (not like there were any kids actively acting odd, just the feeling that we were somehow important enough to have such a tragedy). They also thought several big companies were going to open up shop (like Best Buy, Red Lobster, etc... it was the 90s). Currently, some people still live there who think they have the highest number of Somalians living there (they don't), the largest amount of Muslims (they don't), and they're like the drug central for the state (they're not). It's a small town filled with people who don't really travel more then a few hours any direction and so they really don't have a concept of what's outside their world. The town of 20,000 must represent ALL 8+ billion people. If something bad is happening somewhere, then it MUST be happening really close to them. I had someone message me about how the Chinese were basically getting ready to invade them (so many texts about that). Oh, and after 9/11, so many people legit though that small town no one knows exists, was definitely going to be targeted next by middle-eastern terrorists...

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Average right-wing american levels

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Britain might be better off banning American TV for a bit

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

victim of mass media brain rot

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry to Americans, but at first I thought this must have been from the US.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There would have been mention of some of the paragliders shot.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the GoFundMe for the mental anguish of arbitrarily murdering someone...

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Real talk, we have to figure out how to handle this kind of chronic fear and paranoia, because this shit ain't normal, but it is frighteningly common.

Like yeah this is a hilariously over-the-top example, but the amount of people you and I both know who go through life genuinely thinking that they're going to be the victim of a kidnapping or worse at any given time is astounding. And it's not without impact either, because this is exactly the unfounded sense of fear that conservatives/fascists seize on to manipulate the population.

I don't know the solution, but a world where everyone is afraid of their own shadow is a literal hellscape.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I were a betting man, I'd wager this woman spends a lot of time scrolling through right-wing posts on Facebook about the "invasion" of Britain. A Brexit type, if you will.

That's just speculation in this specific case, but the amount of fear-mongering right-wing content on social media is absolutely a contributor to this kind of worldview more broadly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

The solution is multi-factorial and will take a generation to implement. Expand the social safety net, expand public education to encompass critical thinking skills and researching skills, restrict private media monopolies that hold public consciousness in a deathgrip.

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[–] phoenixz 46 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Oh yeah, hamas is very well known for their incredible Airforce and paramilitary units and operations

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I've taken drugs, too.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe, but I think there's something much more insidious going on here than a random person with weird delusions. I think this is a symptom of the panic narrative that's being boosted all over the world by far-right parties and candidates, social media, and incompetent - or at least misguided - news networks.

If you keep hearing about how the big evil is all around you - it's your neighbors that looks different, your colleagues with a weird accent - and that that evil is coming to get you sooner rather than later, then when you see something that looks different than usual, what are you gonna think it is? The big evil you've been hearing so much about, of course.

This time, it's some old lady thinking paragliders are Hamas, but many times it's some other people saying "the gays" are trying to spread communism and infect the children.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

This was my takeaway. Shes so spun up with fear she sees on TV she thought it possible it could show up at her door.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Takes me back to the early post-9/11 days where lots of random shit is terrorism. Not back to anyplace I wanted to be, but it does take me back.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I hope he can see this, because I am doing it as hard as I can.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ah yes, because paragliders obviously are a very good invasion method. How indoctrinated do you have to be to think this???

also before i clicked the imagine i thought it was the flag of estonia of a sec

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

tbf,

the fact that a handful of paraglider managed to overcome one of the most advanced and well financed military on the world, through one of the most militarised and surveilled borders in the world, into one of the most militarised countries in the world, is quite impressive.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

There is a trick to bypassing the Israeli defenses. Just make sure what you're doing will be giving the unhinged leader of the genocidal regime a casus belli to launch a war of conquest that they can sell as a defensive war, and suddenly you'll find you can do anything.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Woman performs double suplex on paragliders

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Well she is from Doncaster so that explains a lot of her delusional thinking.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That picture is not Doncaster, It's Devils Dyke in Sussex, UK. It is facing East toward Chanctonbury Ring (furtherest hill in the distance). Behind the photographer will be a pub and a carpark. Its a drive of about 230 miles between there and Doncaster. #justsaying

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Well, duh. The photo isn't of Doncaster because it's already fallen to Hamas.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Odd woman yells at ~~cloud~~ paragliders.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

for a second I thought this was a fucking onion article lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man some people just aren't trying anymore; according to the weather forecast it's going to rain Hamas on 17 October 2025, not 2023.

PS: Should probably mention that this is The Onion.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Bruh. Omw to post this in not the onion.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Paraglider pilot here. A paraglider would be literally the worst way to invade/attack/terrorist-whatever any target. You need the right wind conditions to launch (or you have to have someone tow you up, but that only gets you so high); if there are no thermals, you can’t travel any kind of distance (unless your target is on a coastal ridge with onshore wind); you pretty much have to “attack” during the day (for above reasons); you move incredibly slowly (trim speed for your average wing is around 25-3mph); and you need both hands to operate the controls (I guess you could have a tandem passenger to work the weapons or whatever, but then you’re 2 people for every one weapon you have). Paramotors (paraglider plus big ass fan) makes all of this even less ideal, since you’re still very slow moving, and you’re loud.

In conclusion, this lady is a nutcase and badly needs a hobby.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Oh no! If they take out Doncaster, who will eat all the Gregg's?

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