cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46797842
May 2, 2026
The creative team behind many of the viral sensations featuring Lego characters and storytelling critical of the war launched by US-Israeli forces against Iran two months ago, posted a new video on Saturday that seeks to forge solidarity between everyday Iranians and Americans suffering from the conflict, and who desperately want to see the fighting brought to an end.
“The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a DC think tank focused on US foreign policy. “The music, lyrics, and imagery are all designed to appeal to disillusioned Americans.”
You literally ended your previous comment with “but they gave me monies! Is not good enough reason to work with a fascist”. Funny how this only ever seems to apply to foreign enemy states and not to people in your own fucking country. The BBC has been systematically silencing pro Palestinian voices and amplifying Zionist discourse, by your own logic your author is a fascist collaborator.
You complain about “everyone I don’t like is a Zionist”, but you do the even worse “everyone my government tells me is a fascist”. Iran is not fascist for defending itself against US attacks, it has the right to self defense.
If you have quarrels with deaths of Iranians, as I do, you’d be much better off protesting western governments sanctioning Iran with the express purpose of starving people until they revolt, western sanctions murder half a million people globally every year since 1975 (or over 38 million since 1970). If you want to look at the reasons for the anti-Government protests that oh so coincidentally spawned right before your war, look at the exchange rates of the Iranian Rial and the effects of US sanctions on currency value in Iran.
The US playbook goes: sanction and blockade a country’s economy -> generate economic hardship for the citizens and insatisfaction -> arm protestors and/or rebel factions and/or neighboring enemies -> invade when crisis happens
This helps the US generate the inner turmoil and chaos necessary for its goals, and the national and international popular support for the invasion. We’ve seen it in Syria, we’ve seen it in Libya, we’ve seen it with Iran before (Mosaddeq), and we’re seeing it again.
No it applies to them too…
I think the Cruz of the issue, is when someone criticizes something you support in any aspect, you assume that means the completely disagree with you every aspect of that topic and every other topic…
I literally just explained what you’re still having problems with:
And then you came back with this:
What the fuck do you think we’ve been doing?
And why aren’t you doing it in the country you live in, but what disclose?
I got a pretty good guess, but I’m trying not to assume.
My picture from 1st of May, literally 3 days ago, protesting in Vallecas, Madrid against the western militarization.
Iran will not improve until it gets rid of the US, so focus on that if you “hate both”.
You mean what I was doing before you started whatever this whole thing has been about?
I could have been doing more of that if I had just blocked you already.
You’re actively working against your own self professed instrests here mate.
Not just wasting time, actively hurting it.
You’re the one criticising the Iranian Lego propaganda and calling the government fascists for daring to defend themselves from US intervention
I’m saying that they work for fascists to spread fascist propaganda…
That part is true
Like, I think you don’t understand what propaganda is either…
Yeah, they make some good points, but that’s literally the point.
Pointing out that an even worse government than trump is paying for it, is important context…
Fascist propaganda doesn’t magically become true just because it reinforces your beliefs or even contains a few true facts.
You don’t understand why it’s a good idea to point out propaganda, because you think propaganda is incredibly basic.
That explains why you keep spreading it so much,you’re incapable of recognizing when someone is manipulating you…
Again, how is defending oneself from the US and defending Lebanon from Israeli genocide fascist??
Your problem is that you consider “defense from the US” fascism, because you’re so high on US propaganda
It’s objectively anti-fascist propaganda, though. You can call Iran a repressive theocracy, but it isn’t fascist.
Paid for by fascists…
The purpose of the propaganda, is to help the fascist regime paying for it.
You may be confused because some accounts want to make it out that Iran is actually a decent government because American and Israel are bad
Every country involved in this is a peace of shit, and that includes Iran.
Then you clearly don’t know what fascism is, and are just using it a catch-all term to apply to any government you don’t like. They’re religious social conservatives, yes, but they aren’t fascist.
Fascism is a superficially populist movement that is used to violently impose the will of capital and suppress the working class, characterized by a merging of state and corporate power. I don’t think that this describes Iran accurately, though there are some similarities. In any case, their enemies are a genoicidal rogue state and the seat of the global fascist empire, so they’re objectively and by far the least bad out of all the major players in the region.
The “everyone’s bad!” position is simply moral and intellectual cowardice. We do not live in a perfect world, and you’re never going to find a perfect actor. Iran is engaged in a defensive war against the fascist global empire and its regional cronies, and is winning. That’s enough for me, at least for now. We can reexamine the situation after the war.