Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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    6 hours ago

    Looks like they changed up the headline on you:

    “Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East”

    We require the headlines to match, but I always give a reasonable amount of time to fix it before we pull the post.

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      5 hours ago

      This rule would be impossible with the BBC articles lately. They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it’s horrendous.

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        2 hours ago

        They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it’s horrendous.

        Unfortunately, a lot of other websites keep doing it . And not only for marked “live” updates. Sometimes they include the revisions, but nowadays they don’t even show that. Only way to handle this is (for OP) to check regularly the titles of your posted articles, especially when they are only a couple mins old . Its a bother.

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          2 hours ago

          Sounds like a problem automation can fix. Maybe a bot that periodically check the source material’s headline and revise the headline on Lemmy while keeping a history of changes. Might have it check the headline for a day so that it’s not checking the same post forever.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s a serious problem with anything marked “Live Coverage!” too. Every update changes the headline.

        Which is why I always give OPs a chance to fix it. When I post one myself, I’m re-checking it every time I go in to read new comments.

        The only thing really forbidden are headlines that are obviously editorialized.

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    4 hours ago

    That’s gonna be a monstruos cluster fuck. Iran is not Venezuela. They’ve been preparing for this for a long time. Iran geography is no joke neither. And getting near the cost for deployment…

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    6 hours ago

    Its not a war until Trump announces the invasion to reporters while playing golf.

    And he must finish the announcement with “Now watch this drive”.

    As is tradition for invading middle eastern countries.

    That is the protocol.

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      9 hours ago

      I thought for sure this would be “Bomb Iran” or “BYOB”, but Tom Lehrer is a welcome surprise XD

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    14 hours ago

    5000 marines dying for a man who raped and then murdered and then ate tiny little baby children.

    Damn, what a way to go.

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      I doubt 5000 marines are going to die in Iran. We might loss a few hundred… But that is going to be 5000 marines that are away from their families for a long time. That’s going to be billions of dollars spent supporting those Marines. Most importantly, it’s going to be tens, if not hundreds of thousand of people in Iran killed in an invasion.

      Iraq and Afghanistan were costly, and lengthy failures for the US, and we had fucking plans for how to deal with them. There is no fucking way the clown cabal running the government right now had any kind of plan for a stable and independent Iran after this.

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        5 hours ago

        Like missile defense systems that are being canibalized out of Asia to serve Israel, this is Japan “defensive” assets that will be kamikazeed onto Iran.

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    14 hours ago

    did they not learn from the 80s when they were fighting the soviets with the mujahadeen, and then desert storm, and then the bush wars in the ME, oh and this all helps ISRAEl. currently this has been helping russia, since TRUMP lifted sanctions on them today.

    all this was a way to HELP putin without directly lifting sanctions, he needed a “reason to do it” and that reason why iran war caused oil to increase in price.

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      Ah ha! The clever way of helping Putin by letting him invade when not president, then getting him to blow up his own pipeline and bridge, then getting sanctions put on him, to cleverly let Putin have a few crumbs years later…

      Indeed, the perfidy knows no bounds.

      You “Russia Russia Russia” people realize we can’t even predict weather a few days in advance despite immense computing resources, but you think someone can predict human actions like Hari Seldon?

      Jesus fucking Christ we’re a hopeless species.

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        The president is conpromised by Putin, nobody with their head outside of the billionaires’ ass should be unawares of that at this point. The above commenter however didn’t mention that the Israelis also have him, and his pals, compromised.

        It really is like that.

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    12 hours ago

    Here’s hoping for a spike in coffins draped in American flags

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      7 hours ago

      Maybe a new flag could be designed and made especially for them. A gold one with the words “Lol, I died to distract you all from the Epstein files!”
      Or something like that.

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    I’m pretty sure we can’t have that many without congressional approval.

    Everyone make sure to stab your senators in Minecraft.

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        Your hopium wont change reality, civilian deaths will most likely be in thousands if not hundreds of thousands if these guys do boots on the ground.

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      15 hours ago

      I’ll take 4999 body bags and one survivor that the rest of us can ridicule. Fuck the Marines, every single one of them.

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          11 hours ago

          When I was a teenager, I knew that killing 165 little girls is a bad thing to do. I understood that torture is a bad thing to do. Also, the average age of marines is about 25. Most of them are not teenagers.

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            I agree. Just know the news they see is 100% different than what the other half of the population sees. Everyone gets news from Facebook and influencers. It’s all according to who they watch. Also, those people sign up for years at a time. When they asked National Guard to be on streets to help ICE, many didn’t show up or were threatening not to. Things were not this bad when Biden was in office.

            In any case, every one of those guys are probably going to die. It sounds like a suicide mission to rally citizens around the cause. Not sure if it will work.

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          Still doesn’t excuse raping foreign civilians out of boredom or overlooking your friends doing it tho.

          I understand. I probably would have done the same if I grew up like they did. It still would have been unfair for me not suffer any consequences.