How deep do you need to be in the propaganda to think like that?
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Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I remember in 2008 when Putin was invading Georgia (the country) there were some confused and scared people from Georgia (US state).
orcrist@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
No. 90% were not scared. It was the corporate media that hyped up every single flimsy lead. The rest of us knew that we would be perfectly fine.
TheRealKuni@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
In Nate Bargatze’s recent standup special he talked about how he, a water meter reader at the time, was tasked with protecting his town’s water tower after 9/11. With a flashlight. He did a much better job making it funny than I can, but I remember that level of fear. “It’s called terrorism because they make you afraid they can hit anywhere!” I remember hearing.
Which is silly in retrospect, Al Qaeda only hit major, symbolic targets in the US and never did “hit anywhere.”
_core@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I was working for a company that was renovating and upgrading the water filtration system in the ass end of nowhere and we had some official show up to ask us what we were doing b/c someone called us in thinking we were terrorists sabotaging the water system.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
That is literally frightening. I honestly feel bad for her. That is not a good life. Pushing hate like that requires a lot of internal suffering.
Don’t do social media, kids.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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).
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
and they’re like the drug central for the state (they’re not).
To be fair you never know. There is a small town fairly near where I live that had one of the largest meth production operations in the country at one point. Turns out it’s pretty easy to make a lot of drugs and not get caught when you do it in the middle of nowhere.
possumparty@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Average right-wing american levels
twice_hatch@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Britain might be better off banning American TV for a bit
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget that in WW2 UK civilians were taught to pay attention to other peoples’ shoes because of rumours of hairy-handed nuns in Fallschirmjäger issue boots. This kind of shit is nothing new.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There genuinely were German spies in Britain though.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Holy propaganda victim
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
victim of mass media brain rot
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
My thougts as well.
It makes me wonder about my own fears. How many of them were put there by propaganda?
iii@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
For one, there’s journalists picking the dumbest tweets and pretending it’s news. Then screenshots of the “news” article of a dumb tweet getting propagated on other fora.
It’s ragebate, conditioning us into a default distrust of and condescension of others.
bratorange@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Sorry to Americans, but at first I thought this must have been from the US.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dont worry. The Brits are dumb as fuck too.
Vespair@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Vespair@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The way to handle it is to find the “The Architects of Fear”, getting rid of them, and making sure no new ones take their place.
iii@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I don’t think you’ll ever be able to get fully rid of terrorists
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There were people who went out an shot at water towers during the radio airing of War of the World’s. Floridians will routinely try to make hurricanes go away by shooting at them. Police get hundreds of calls about Venus every year.
There’s no fixing this type of stupid. All we can hope for is to keep it from spreading too far.
aramova@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
God damnit, stop making the case for eugenics already. Let RFK’s absurd health advice do its thing, weed them out, and we can hand out the Darwin awards in a few years.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, hamas is very well known for their incredible Airforce and paramilitary units and operations
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even aside from that, I see 12 guys in the picture. If we assume this is a stock photo and the actual number was 5 times higher that’s still only 60 people. If a foreign country or terrorist organization was invading you with 60 dudes in parachutes you could almost call the local shooting club and let them handle it. That’s hardly worth the label “invasion”.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I mean the island of Sark was invaded by a single dude in 1990 (apologies for the terrible linked source, its just one of the first search results that wasn’t a random reddit thread or other even less reputable source)
The local volunteer Constable, the only law enforcement on the island, being informed of the invasion thanks to the notices, decided to take the threat seriously. On the morning of the invasion, Constable Perrée began to plan the island’s defense, which was a two stage scheme. First, he went looking for Mr. Gardes. He found him sitting on a park bench in army fatigues preparing for the massacre that was about to befall this island. As the Constable approached the invading army (a.k.a. Gardes), he saw Gardes loading his automatic weapon.
The first “showing up” stage now complete, Mr. Perrée executed the second stage of the plan. He complimented Mr. Gardes on his choice of gun and convinced Gardes to remove the magazine and let him see the instrument of the island’s assured defeat, so the constable could better admire it. When Gardes acquiesced, the Constable took the gun and punched him in the nose. The invasion was over. The gun used in the attempted coup now sits in the Sark Museum next to old ships and a dedicated exhibit to one of the island’s two original telephone calls.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Well, there was Operation Red Dog by 13 (3 being agents so really more like 9-10) people who tried to take over Dominica and make it a white ethnostate…
dan1101@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Paramilitary, paragliders, I never made the connection before!
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We should study her brain
gon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
Exusia@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It would be useful as a paper weight
Moonweedbaddegrasse@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I’ve taken drugs, too.
frezik@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Takes me back to the early post-9/11 days. Not back to anyplace I wanted to be, but it does take me back.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cdf12345@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I hope he can see this, because I am doing it as hard as I can.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Hupf@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
gens@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
AFAIK It did happen in brittain… in ww2.
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
“Slams”
😐
EldenLord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
I know there’s no such thing as overkill, but JFC. You’re gonna need a microscope to identify the remains.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Sir, !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works is leaking out and beginning to spread
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Woman performs double suplex on paragliders
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well she is from Doncaster so that explains a lot of her delusional thinking.
zazous@lemmy.funami.tech 3 weeks ago
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. #justsaying
crank0271@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, duh. The photo isn’t of Doncaster because it’s already fallen to Hamas.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
So you’re #justsaying that the chickenshit woman is also full of regular human shit?
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
More likely the ‘journalist’ just grabbed a stock image (it even credits Getty Images) of paragliders.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
sauce?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Junji Ito for sure
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gyo, it’s the same guy who created Uzumaki
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Old woman yells at
cloudparagliders.recall519@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
sLaMs
yagurlreese@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
for a second I thought this was a fucking onion article lol
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
[deleted]iii@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
By a single tweet. It was so effective!
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Oh no! If they take out Doncaster, who will eat all the Gregg’s?
podperson@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree with the “nutcase” diagnosis but I think she just can’t tell paragliders and parachutes apart and thought these were paratroopers. Which Hamas somehow has now.
Flipper@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I disagree on some spots. There are electric motors for paramotors which are significantly quieter..
You could use it in the night. With still air you also don’t need to have the breaks in your hands all the time.
I still wouldn’t use it as an attack vehicle.
atlien51@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
D O N C A S T A H
Ghosthacked@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
These are the same types of idiots that think they’re going to be targets of a terror attack in some small backwater town.
These types of propaganda methods really resonate with boomer types.
I remember someone that thought that they were going to be mailed anthrax back when they had the anthrax scare in the US.
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How much anthrax do you think terrorists have that they could afford to mail it to you, a random person in the US?
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Why do you think you’re so important that you’re going to be targeted?
You need to either be clueless or really full of yourself to think these scenarios apply to you.
The only time you’re possibly going to be caught up in something is if you’re going to an important or significant place, or you’re interacting with people much more important than you are.
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postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’d watch this Red Dawn reboot.
andybytes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Stupid ass
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
the british have to be the most over sensitive people on the planet, for some of the shit I’ve seen them complain about that made the news cycle.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“AAAHHH! Hamas are attacking… Doncaster?”
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Aw naw! They’re comin’ from Bradford!
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did any of them have those dumb little, loud ass engines attached? Because, if so, I understand a little more.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do you know what else terrorists use all over the world? Cars! How long will we allow these dangerous contraptions to be freely available?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
TIL www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chicken-tax.asp
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You are now an admin on /c/fuckcars
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
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.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Those poor mass murderers just couldn’t get their hands on a gun. So unfair!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Knives are still number one because some of us can’t afford a car!? Mass murder isn’t the cushy gig it once was, between enshittification, inflation, corporate greed, etc.