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DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago

Viral Video Compilation Shows Top Iran War Booster Making One Failed Prediction After Another | Common Dreams

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DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago
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Conservative commentator Dave Rubin's failed predictions on Iran war exposed in viral video. Critics mock his inaccurate forecasts.
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  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    “And my prediction here is that everything the media is now going to say about Iran—it’s going to close the Strait of Hormuz, and energy prices are going to go crazy—none of this is going to come to pass.”

    very-intelligent “Well, I’m still technically correct: that shit has come to stay!”

  • Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    LOL! That reminds me of a Neocon propagandist posing as a “political science professor” that I took a few classes from back in the 2000s. He always liked to say, “We could take on the entire world at once – and win!” In reality, Washington could not even take on Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time without going bankrupt.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      In reality, Washington could not even take on Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time without going bankrupt.

      And even that was in a time of relative national unity after 9 / 11, and before another two decades of deindustrialization and financialization of defence contractors, and when the brutal-but-realist Kissinger-acolyte PNAC crowd was running things, and when NATO was happy to join in on American adventurism. Everything is different now.

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    Is it possible to get the video without the news article asking for my email

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      https://xcancel.com/DaveClips/status/2058340458032505038

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        The comments by libs somehow manage to be just as bad. What no materialism does to a motherfucker…

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        Thanks :3

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    Doesn’t matter. Reactionaries don’t care about truth or consistency and while it’s kind of fun these things aren’t that useful. Jon Stewart spent a decade gotcha-ing Fox News and other reactionary pundits at the time with extensive video clips and research and as even that sad shit-lib had to admit when he signed off for the last time “bullshit mountain is bigger than ever”.

    This guy is so small and I’ve heard of him so little in recent years I think it actually boosts his presence more than anything to dunk on him like this.

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    I forgot Rubin exists lmao

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    michael-laugh

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    “War to end all wars”?! Holy shit lmao

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    Lots of high level very important ideas in this video LMAO michael-laugh

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    Are we sure Dave Rubin is not related to Jim Cramer?

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    somehow Dave Rubin between all these fucking idiots is the most clippable. hell this has been a past time of radlibs since at least 2017 when he transitioned into being a “classical liberal”.

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    I’ve never heard of this guy and “commondreams.org” is surprising to see in the same sentence with “viral video”.

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