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Not especially mine related but a new anti-Trump pro-Khameini AI-assisted dis track has been released, allegedly sanctioned by the Iranian government (I'd like to see confirmation it's official, mind you).
https://youtube.com/shorts/7C_G756zLpw
It's not well crafted on any level really but it's catchy and made me laugh, I can't deny, despite the gravity (or really because of the gravity) of the global situation.
It also feels like beating Trump at his own game.
It's incredibly childish and hammers Trump on being a loser, instead of failing to live up to some democratic or presidential ideal that was never one of his selling points in the first place. I don't suppose a high-minded democratic opponent could or should get far with this approach but for an authoritarian opponent that wants to wrestle pigs, this seems like the way to go.
In its irreverence, it also subverts a lot of the austere extremism that I associate with the Iranian regime.
America should be invulnerable to these kinds of playground tactics from a pernicious regime, but it isn't, having surrendered too much moral high ground.
Glad you shared this video, I probably would have missed it otherwise. But I do have to say it looks like it's one iranian youtuber dude (listing location as UK), who mostly makes shorts of himself reading news in persian, who is also playing with making short goofy AI videos. If you treat it as "iran made this", I guess the rest of what you wrote makes some sense, but not so much if it's just a banger funny AI song/video from an online youtuber watching along from the outside like the rest of us.
Personally I'm starting to lean toward being a KMC-tier american chauvinist, but I can definitely still enjoy this track or Dase getting exasperated with american demons in flowery language.
I wish I could find better reporting -- evidence of it being 'official' is reporting that similar Lego videos from this creator have been shown on Iranian state TV:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/lego-gta-social-media-war-iran-us-b2935537.html
And a recent article alleging this latest video is official: https://the-express.com/news/world-news/203115/donald-trump-iran-ai-video-reddit-203115
Hopefully more credible info will come out about whether this is a random UK YouTuber that Iran picked up, or if they commissioned it, or what ...
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Fun video I thought. They kind of give the game away though with the message at the end: 'You will drown in our BLOOD.' Bro chill.
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Funny and catchy, but too long and strikes the wrong tone. I would have thought, “look what we have to do to defend ourselves” worked well for Palestine, while, “lol, want us to kill more of your boys? We can do this all day,” is very provocative from a country as essentially weak as Iran. Maybe they just don’t like playing the underdog.
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That was how I felt when Obama was president.
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