cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46797842
May 2, 2026
The creative team behind many of the viral sensations featuring Lego characters and storytelling critical of the war launched by US-Israeli forces against Iran two months ago, posted a new video on Saturday that seeks to forge solidarity between everyday Iranians and Americans suffering from the conflict, and who desperately want to see the fighting brought to an end.
“The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a DC think tank focused on US foreign policy. “The music, lyrics, and imagery are all designed to appeal to disillusioned Americans.”
Yeah so… that video is completely true and great and all… but is this video being put out by the same regime that murdered like 20 THOUSAND unarmed civilians?? Trump and his puppeteers are bad (Thiel, Heritage Foundation, Musk, Vought, Andreeson, etc.) but also the Iranian Regime is way worse. How about they all blow up each other, so the People can finally have their revolution?
It is not, actually. The group behind this is mostly a collective of around 9-10 Iran-based, Gen Z creators operating independent of the IRGC and/or official government of Iran. Their group/org name is “Explosive Media”.
Lumping everyone in Iran as somehow part of “the regime” is kinda a shitty thing to do.
That, and Trump’s ACA/Medicaid cuts are estimated to cause upwards of more than 50,000 premature deaths in the US, so you’re also objectively wrong if going by numbers, alone.
In Trump’s first term, U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 29,000 non-combatants in Iraq and Syria.
But sure, the government fighting a CIA-backed, armed rebellion is worse than the government that–checks notes–drops tomahawk missiles on other countries’ elementary schools.
About that…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd8jrd1vnyo
If you’re ok having your domestic fascist regime being you’re “customer” you can’t really push back when people call your product propaganda for the fascist regime…
“But they offer me monies!” Isn’t a good enough excuse to work for fascists with criticism for it.
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So… What’s your point? What were the nature of the projects? Your linked article doesn’t say.
Btw, are you an American? Do you pay taxes to the American fascist regime (or one of its coalition partners)? Yes? Then you directly fund the melting of school children overseas. Do you drive a gas-fueled vehicle? Yeah? Welp, 0.9¢ per gallon of that goes straight to frying little brown boys and girls in Gaza.
If that’s not more concerning to you than feigning moral supremacy over some dudes making Lego videos then perhaps your vision is a bit tinted by a different kind of supremacy.
What I said it was…
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Yeah bro, it sucks…
See that? A citizen saying their government is a bunch of fascists.
What country are you from?
How do you feel about your current government?
Usually when asking it’s politie to offer up the same info pre-emptively.
I answered anyways, but if you don’t reciprocate it kind of makes it look like you got something to hide
They were rhetorical questions. You weren’t supposed to answer them.
You have terrible reading comprehension.
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Does that mean I don’t get an answer?
Mossad and CIA operatives kicked off a violent uprising in Iran in January, following economic protests, which targeted police and other protestors. It was a cynical attempt to encourage a crackdown so Western propaganda could use it as a basis for “humanitarian intervention”
It didn’t work but that absurdly false death count has stuck around like a bad smell. Verified death count is 3,000 and many of those were police.
Two things can both be bad.
Bad people can be right.
Saying “this video by the Iranian regime roasts the US regime” doesn’t automatically mean that the Iranians are right. I see the rebuttal that there’s an implicit boosting and platforming of this which normalizes it. I don’t know which is worse. I think we’ll need hindsight for that.
…who said the Iranian regime was in the right…?
Please decide yourself. The regime killed 20,000, 30,000, or 40,000? The USA is responsible for millions of deaths. I am sorry, but the USA is way worse than the Iranian regime.
the iran regime killed one billion islamillion people. look, i have a source: www.blog.palantir.com/please-just-one-more-war-please-i-beg-you-613127
lol
Yup, and also USA helped cause this mess with Iran as well: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ohA_cqqJbyg
I thought it was 50,000 or was it 100,000? Get your CIA lies straight at least.
lol ok
I heard it was 20 TRILLION!!
Sorry. I don’t buy into western propaganda. The 20,000 is clearly made up.
Hate to break it to you but both sides have pretty extreme propaganda. I would accept the number that multiple independent humanitarian groups all agree on, which is at least 6.8 verified, with another 11k they believe and are investigating.
Even at the level of the verified 6800, that’s a lot of people directly murdered by the government. Yes the US has directly murdered many many thousands since 9/11, and indirectly many more through sanctions and Musk pulling USAID, etc. but that doesn’t discount that Iran murdered like 7-20+ thousand in one stretch. That’s horrid.
I have a friend in Iran, his cousin died in the protests. His body was tagged 12,014. Shut your fucking mouth if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Yea, well my cousins friend also died in the protests and a bunch of his friends too and you know what his body was tagged? -2672, this means that not only is the Iranian government not killing people, they are actively resurrecting them, my cousins friend and all the other guys just got up and walked out of that morgue, good as new.
This is obviously sarcasm, it is very easy for anyone on an anonymous forum to claim whatever they want. It sounds to me like you are going out of your way to shut down conversation on this matter by unconvincingly claiming “your friends cousin” died. I bet you also had a supermodel girlfriend from two towns over.
That sucks and all, and I’m sorry for your friend’s loss, but that’s precisely the kind of information that can be pinpointed back to him or his family. So be careful saying stuff like that.
Obviously that’s not how body tags work. Either you or your friend is making this story up.
😂 😝 😂 my friend was once the millionth customer at our local McDonalds . They added it to his social security card.
Yep, most reporting from inside Iran puts the number killed as significantly higher than that.
Actually no, that was the previous Iranian regime (before they killed the Ayatollah). This is the new Iranian regime (with the younger Khamenei).
Maybe he’s not a murderous tyrant like his dad? I suppose it’s worth giving him an opportunity to build his own legacy without his father’s baggage, considering the circumstances.
If he ends up murdering his own civilians too, then fuck him. But so far he hasn’t done that.
the regime is the same. It’s all the same people, even though the top guy is his son
Okay, so the Iranian civilians are being murdered by the Iranian government and the US government.
Can we stop arguing about which one’s worse and maybe start thinking about how do we stop both of those regimes from murdering civilians?
I agree. You’re the one that was making excuses for the regime.
Was I? All I said was that the recent round of massacres was under the previous Ayatollah.
I also clearly stated that if the current Ayatollah murders civilians, then fuck him too.
What part of that excuses a murderous regime?
here we have another liberal manufacturing consent for the war and thinking republicans are the problem in america
Lol that shit is hilarious, like people who actually live here can possibly forget ALL the Republican political messaging in support of this administration, its stupid ass wars, raping kids, hiding its crimes, and killing/marginalizing/deporting anyone who disagrees or even just happens to be brown.
Do you have any idea how many fucking red caps and pro-Trump signs I have to see every day? Do you really think your limp words hold a candle to all that crowing about the Republicans “hurting the right people” finally?
“here we have another liberal thinking republicans are the problem in america”
YEAH! I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DO!
Here we have another my way or the highway extremist who only takes what they want to hear from a statement instead of the intent… or the actual content of the words.
lol good one