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.”
AI slop-😡
AI slop (but it’s Iran)-😍
Iran being smart enough to do the thing the US admin is too stupid to: win the hearts and minds of your adversary’s civilian populace.
The US has given up on all of it’s real strengths because Trump is too stupid to see anything but raw military might as important. The US used to be so good at winning people over through its promotion of human rights and liberal values of freedom. It was always a mask, but it was a very valuable one. It certainly never won over everyone, but it bought them enough good will to allow Pax Americana to persist. Trump has torn that mask clean off, not realizing just how much he would change the game for everyone. The very confidence and desire to be the dictator of the most powerful empire on earth has made that empire significantly less powerful.
Here’s the link for anyone who cares.
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Got anything besides youtube? They apparently don’t want me to watch it (at least not without IDing myself to them…)
Also, how the fuck does verifying the viewer’s humanity protect the fucking community? I’m not commenting or liking shit.
I wonder if that’s why all the Iranian accounts suddenly stopped calling everyone “zionazis”?
I won’t comment on how/why they got that memo a few days before the video, but it clearly wasn’t working and makes sense they’re pivoting.
From a purely technical standpoint, it always made more sense for Iranian trolls to commiserate with Americans online; play it as “the only country that wants this is Israel” would be super effective.
Insisting anyone who disagrees is a Zionist just makes the label mean nothing and makes people disregard anything else the propaganda is saying, even the true parts.
All they were doing was diving people who were already against Israel and trump
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?
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.
murdered like 20 THOUSAND unarmed civilians?
Source: the same Zionist media denying the genocide of Palestinians. Surely a non-doctored, totally true® figure.
Also, about the “unarmed” part:
US was arming Iranian dissidents through Kurds while negotiating with Tehran, Trump reveals
So, the US sanctions Iran so heavily that the impoverished population wants to riot, and the US gives weapons to said impoverished population… Totally not a coup attempt!
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.
but is this video being put out by the same regime that […]
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.
collective of around 9-10 Iran-based, Gen Z creators operating independent of the IRGC and/or official government of Iran.
About that…
In previous interviews the outlet has said it is “totally independent”. But upon further questioning, Mr Explosive admits the regime is a “customer” - something he’s never before confirmed publicly.
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.
FTA:
In earlier Instagram messages, he’d told us his operation had been directly commissioned for multiple projects by Iranian officials.
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’s your point?
What I said it was…
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…
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Btw, are you an American?
Yeah bro, it sucks…
See that? A citizen saying their government is a bunch of fascists.
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What country are you from?
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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?
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
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Imagine believing the Zionist pro-genocide BBC international news coverage in 2026…
Man, I really thought the “everyone I don’t like is a zionist” phase…
The guy who wrote that article also just made a documentary:
https://liontv.com/our-shows/palestine-action-the-truth-behind-the-ban-dispatches
Calling out the UK government for banning Palestine Action…
This may surprise you, the vast majority of “westerners” hate the governments of Israel, Iran, and likely their own domestic governments.
Criticizing one place does not equallyean someone is “on the other side”.
In fact, in a lot of conflicts, both governments are assholes.
Does that make sense?
I heard it was 20 TRILLION!!
Has more direct, violent control of their own people? Sure. Worse than trump and friends? Dunno bout that. Due to trump’s malice and incompetence, he’s getting people killed in the US as well as abroad. Plenty in Cuba are suffering and dying because of him right now. Africa too. They’re both shit and I won’t root for either. I certainly won’t begrudge them killing our soldiers following illegal orders over there invading at least.
Yeah, Iran is super awful, but just the cuts to USAID are estimated to be responsible for at least half a million deaths.
So worse because of opportunity, not because of effort? Do you think the Iranian regime would have been any better if they were in the same position as the US?
I don’t know, because that isn’t the reality we live in. They’d probably be just as bad, but that doesn’t justify the US being awful either.
Who said it did? People aren’t saying there has to be a good guy, they’re saying they’re both bad. That trying to make one better or worse is pointless because they’re hurting people either way.
You don’t have to pick one of two sides in this. You can just say “The war is bad”.
Sorry. I don’t buy into western propaganda. The 20,000 is clearly made up.
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.
Obviously that’s not how body tags work. Either you or your friend is making this story up.
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.
What’s the body count have to be to solicit an unfavorable opinion? Like, can you abide a few? Gloss over a few dozen? Do you require evidence of each kill? How many people does a theocratic authoritarian government have to murder for you to be like “yeah, fuck your regime”? Don’t conflate “fuck the Ayatollah and the IRGC” with “go America”. It’s not difficult to be disgusted with two fundies leaving a trail of bodies in their wake as they argue over oil and which delivery boy made up a better version of God.
Yep, most reporting from inside Iran puts the number killed as significantly higher than that.
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
Yup, and also USA helped cause this mess with Iran as well: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ohA_cqqJbyg
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.
Trump and his puppeteers
Don’t forget skull and bones.
When people talk about trump being “unprecedented” I think it’s because people don’t know a prior Republican president specifically and explicitly requested to watch his son (a future Republican president) jack off as part of Skull and Bones…
Like HW Bush full on requested a front row seat, knowing full well what would happen because his dad was also a member too.
Wait what the fuck? What is the context here that I’m missing?
Monkeys spanking monkeys spanking monkeys over pieces of dat ass.
Silly monkeys, give them thumbs, they’ll gather 'round and watch the monkey spank its monkey.
Angels on the sideline again Wondering where this tug of war will end.
