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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/62631096

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[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 151 points 2 months ago (6 children)

So… Trump praises Allah and the Iranians defend Jesus. Definitely did not have that on my 2026 bingo card.

[–] itslola@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're aware that Jesus features in the Quran as well as the Bible, right...? Highly respected figure in Islam, not at all surprising that Iran would be defending him.

[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yes, I’m quite aware that the background is that after being visited by the archangel Gabriel and explained that basically the Christians did not understood Jesus message, Muhammad created Islam, hence being known as “the true prophet”. I’m also aware that as a figure, Jesus has been “whitened” to the image of Zeus to please Europeans of that time. That doesn’t prevent him of bring the symbol of the Catholic religion.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean if anything it would be to please the Romans, but anyway the "whiteness" of Jesus wasn't a thing that occurred all at once. It was slow and over hundreds of years. Not that strange to think illiterate medieval peasants that never traveled more than 20km from their birthplace weren't nuanced in all the "races" of the world or had a good understanding of geography. Of course they would imagine that this religious figure looked like them

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Allah is God. Why do so many people not know that?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Because according to people who don't understand the religion they claim to follow, Allah is a different god.

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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah if I understand correctly Allah is just a contraction of "Al Illah" which means "the god".

I love the history of the emergence of monotheism, it was very gradual and often the one god had to cohabit with lesser deities for centuries before they fully took over. Interestingly, Yahweh was in competition for some time with other warrior storm gods, including Belial and Baal which were ultimately demonized to the highest degree to prevent them coming back.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 74 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m just happy we have finally found such a productive use of AI.

All the job loss was really worth it for this.

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the destruction of our environment and water supply too

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

And the spike in RAM, SSD, HDD and GPU prices

[–] mech@feddit.org 68 points 2 months ago

Begun, the Meme Wars have.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 46 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I'm really fascinated by those tweets by the iranian embassies: The USA is waging war against Iran and the Iranians are allowed to spread their own war propaganda with their official accounts on US platforms.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago (4 children)

first of all, it's a special military operation. So jot that down.

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Practically everybody in the Trump administration has referred to it as a "war." Just because congress lacks the balls to assert its own authority, that doesn't make this less of a war.

But yes, "special military operation" -- noted.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought it was an "Excursion?" Which was really one of those things where Trump got it wrong, and everybody around him is pretending that it's perfectly normal.

Obviously, they were in a meeting early in the War, and trying to do that old trick where you try to convince the citizens that we aren't really in a War, it's only a "Police Action," or a "Peacekeeping Mission," etc. in this case, they suggested they call it an "Incursion," but since Trump is virtuosically ignorant, and has never heard that word, and doesn't know what it means, he called it an "Excursion," and then embarked on multiple explanations of how it's not a war, it's just a little trip through their country. All because he doesn't know what Incursion means, so he confabulated a new word for war, and those around him, including the media, are afraid to correct him.

I'd love the opportunity to ask him "Why do keep saying Excursion? Is it because you don't what Incursion means, so you just substituted a word you do know?"

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The true AI wars have begun.

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[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

can you imagine being a historian having to study, characterize, and teach these clips to students.

like instead of WW2 tanks videos, and WW1 trench videos, we will teach these, and the context

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The one where the guy on the table is jeffery epstein is better.

[–] TheFlopster@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I notice something new every loop.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Big fan of Trump still having on suit pants and black shoes under the robes.

And he hulked out so hard he grew a belt.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

It would be nice touch if Trumps shoes would have flown off.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

crazy how that other doctor comes out of nowhere and hits doctor trump

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Even Iran uses white Jesus? C'mon.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

They're making these for a western audience, so yes.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

... Have you seen middle eastern people?

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I have. Not a chance they are that caucasian white. Remember we are talking about 2k years ago, without all the intermixing of races and with people spending a lot of time under the sun.

According to the bible Jesus did spend plenty time under the sun either working or preaching. No way he was that white.

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

To be fair, this fictional character could be purple and it would still be fine with me.

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[–] mtpender@piefed.social 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"JESUS FROM THE TOP ROPE! BY GAWD HE HAD A FAMILY!"

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Good. Do his family next.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And people claim there is no good use case for AI...

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I’m still not convinced that either of these are good uses….

What scares me is that we once had to read political platforms to elect someone and to look to the newspapers or evening news to help us stay informed. And as technology progressed, we have found dumber and dumber reasons to form opinions about global events - we don’t like someone’s voice, or they wore the wrong outfit, or the building looks shabby. And now we enter a world where we are going to judge people and events based on fabricated material, which I find terrifying.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People were always this dumb. There are just more of us.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah, before the internet every little town had a few lunatics and mentally challenged people, but they were alone. The net has connected them and gave them a voice, and by god, is it loud and obnoxious.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

TLDR; please summarize in the form of AI video

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So is part of the rapture fantasy that you have to deify an evil lunatic to lure Jesus out of his hidey hole to flip tables and take names?

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[–] SourGumGum@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

wtf I love Iran now.

[–] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus would propably not hate this

[–] stinely_yours@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

Notorious table flipper, he

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

That's actually based af. The only thing it's missing is changing the patient to be Epstein

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

It's interesting to think that, if anyone was to be smited, my blaspheming rear would be far down the list.

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] Ron@zegheteens.nl 5 points 2 months ago

What did Jon Stewart do to Trump?

[–] null@lemmy.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to get off Mr Bones' Wild Ride.

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