• the most disappointed by a recent movie i have ever been was the sequel to Sicario, where this completely absurd brainworm was played straight. for the first hour or so, i thought it was some kind of weird misdirection. …like a Long Kiss Goodnight style false flag conspiracy to grow the counter-terror / state security apparatus.

    nope, just suicide bombing jihad guys crossing the border with immigrants and then blowing up walmarts. gotta CIA cowboy josh brolin this situation with a little yeehaw torture. i really should have known that Villaneuve not being a part of it would obliterate any complexity and subversive messaging.

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    This has been part of US propaganda for a long time. I forget when “Al-Qaeda/The Taliban/Cobra Commander” is going to cross the Mexican border started by it’s been going on for a long, long while.

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      Wasn’t there, like, some American propagandist who stepped over the border line while wearing a Bin Laden mask to “prove” how easy it would be for Al Qaeda to infiltrate the US?

      Also Steven Segall coauthored a book where Mexican cartel jihadists blow up the grand canyon.

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        Not the grand canyon! rat-salute-2 Mexican Islamic Jihad - Sinaloa Cartel for putting the Colorado River out of it’s misery after a century of grotesque mismanagement.

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    If you didn’t denounce Hamas on October 7th on an approved social media outlet, you will receive a Hamas membership card (hastily printed on state dept letterhead) within two weeks, and your domicile will be legally reclassified as a Hamas base

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    i have to think the hogs wanting to do mexico are wanting an ‘easy’ win for the US and therefore trying to make it symbolic for every other war they’re trying to do