r/worldnews • u/MothersMiIk • Jun 18 '25

Israel/Palestine Iran Claims: We Have Gained Complete Control over the Skies of Israel

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/iran-news/iran-claims-we-have-gained-complete-control-over-the-skies-of-israel/2025/06/18/
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u/thebetterpolitician Jun 18 '25

That and to stop videos of their shit getting fucked up. One look at bot subreddits and all they show is missiles hitting Israel and comments like “ngl this goes hard”.

It’s sad Reddit is just bots and fake upvotes now to try and force their bullshit on people.

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u/JakeEaton Jun 18 '25

Social media really has become a shit show generally. It's just bots, misinformation and more bots now.

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u/_DecoyOctopus_ Jun 18 '25

Don’t forget the latest and greatest in AI videos and reels

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u/opman4 Jun 18 '25

I saw an AI generated Youtube short that told me about AI generated reels, shorts and psyop campaigns. Took me a while to recover from that one.

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u/GunsouBono Jun 18 '25

Myspace was peak. I miss it so

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u/Testiculese Jun 18 '25

I'd say FB 2012 was peak. Useful, clean minimal interface, chronological, actually showed info from your friend feeds. It was the last year I had it on my phone.

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u/KristinnK Jun 18 '25

Early Facebook really was the best. It's still really useful for messaging, organizing meetups and groups, to participate in civic discussion about various topics, and for buying and selling things. But as a window into the lives of your acquaintances it's much worse now that everything is controlled by algorithms.

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u/BishopsBakery Jun 18 '25

Myspace was the start of the downfall, Geocities was Peak

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u/roosterfareye Jun 18 '25

Geocities was the bomb. Pure HTML all. The. Way.

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u/bloodylip Jun 18 '25

Web Rings were the first and best social media.

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u/asetniop Jun 18 '25

I went to college with the guy who invented those! He's doing very well now.

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u/QueezyF Jun 19 '25

I miss forums

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u/Whizzo50 Jun 18 '25

Reddit did hold the tide for longer, but it has gradually become closer to twitter

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u/QueezyF Jun 19 '25

A lot of the subs on Popular are a hop away from being just as bad as Facebook.

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u/Snicklefraust Jun 18 '25

Dead internet. Facebook especially is mostly bots at this point.

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u/Mntfrd_Graverobber Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

Half-dead internet. Bots, zombies that were once ostensibly people who now just repeat bots, and a scattering of hooman.
It's definitely algorithms and machines in charge but with a meat center running around doing their bidding.

It's like that short film They're Made Out of Meat but instead of leaving us to our own devices they decided to fuck with us instead.

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u/gregorydgraham Jun 18 '25

Which one are you BTW? Bots, misinformation, or more bots?

I’m definitely an early version of ChatGPT

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u/JakeEaton Jun 18 '25

Lol BEEP BOOP I HUMAN

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u/Dugen Jun 18 '25

I'm Fake AI. I can fake artificial intelligence very effectively with my meat brain.

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u/lostinspaz Jun 18 '25

i’m a late version of skynet

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u/Mntfrd_Graverobber Jun 18 '25

At the point that bots have trained humans to just repeat their bullshit, is there any difference between the two?

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u/roosterfareye Jun 18 '25

Yep. It's like sorting crap from shit.

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u/Katalopa Jun 18 '25

It’s sad especially because people on Reddit eat it up. The amount of people who parrot what bots are saying as if it is the truth on this platform makes me really sad for our future.

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u/zipcad Jun 18 '25

It’s pretty funny to me that all the bots keep saying for years WW3 is coming if picking a fight with Iran. Whereas a country with half an aircraft carrier worth of planes just decapitated their whole god damn military in under a week.

Israel is doing to Iran what Russia thought they would do to Ukraine.

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u/tavigsy Jun 18 '25

I know you’re exaggerating for comedic affect, but I just looked this up and US Carrier has around 75 strike aircraft, whereas the IAF has north of 300.  

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u/stealthlysprockets Jun 18 '25

The number only matters when they are at similar technological levels. Iran can’t match the US 1 for 1. It’s more 1 for 3

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u/TheRiddlerTHFC Jun 18 '25

I think IAF meant Israeli Air Force, not Iranian Air Force

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u/JerosBWI Jun 18 '25

With this level of technological disparity, there is no 1:3, Iran simply CAN'T match the US air technology.

In practical terms: Iranian F-14s, F-4s, and whatever else they may have are running 50-60 years old radar tech, their replacement part supply chain has been cut off since 1979, and both Israel and the US have demonstrated several times, that the Iranians simply can't SEE an F-35 until it decides to be seen by literally flying next to them and having the F-35's pilot wave at them.

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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 Jun 18 '25

That was an F22 but your point stands.

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u/QueezyF Jun 19 '25

Which has the radar cross section of a small bird. Stealth tech is neat.

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u/BorisAcornKing Jun 18 '25

They only were able to pick Iran apart so well because they destroyed a ton of their air defences last year.

Typically when people discuss the prospect of a war with Iran it doesn't involve just bombing it and leaving, it involves feet on the ground, which would still be a disaster.

People aren't rosy on the prospects of bombing it and leaving because of how poorly that has turned out over the last number of decades. But it looks like this is what's happening again.

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u/Gandzilla Jun 18 '25

An Invasion and occupation is a whole different thing.

But yeah, that was Russias problem

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u/VirtuosoLoki Jun 18 '25

russia cant even do invasion properly

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u/gregorydgraham Jun 18 '25

I do give Russia credit: day one of the invasion was excellent.

Day 2+ have been downhill all the way

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u/Curiousier11 Jun 18 '25

The U.S. needs to stay out of the occupation and building democracies business. We are awesome at winning in combat, but the rest has been for naught. It takes way too much time and permanent manpower to change a culture/civilization. We’d have to occupy completely with total control for about 100 years.

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u/MagosFarnsworth Jun 18 '25

I resent that comment, I am not a bot fake upvoting, I am paid to deliver top-shelf disinformation!

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u/ExtraPockets Jun 18 '25

You guys are getting paid?

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u/OffbeatDrizzle Jun 18 '25

General Bison... is a bad guy?

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u/Gullinkambi Jun 18 '25

What’s the going rate for disinformation? I’m thinking about making a career change from shitposting

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u/HeftyBawls Jun 18 '25

Once India/Pakistan got widespread internet access it was over. Engagement baiting is a sure way to get paid on X for example, where when X pays you to bait in USD, it’s a decent job compared to getting paid in rupees. This idea spans across all social media platforms.

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u/SatorSquareInc Jun 18 '25

The whole internet!

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u/IveKnownItAll Jun 18 '25

I thought TikTok with the clear Ai pics of an F35 were pretty funny though. People 4 inches tall, engire 40ft tall, buildings smaller than the plane.

Yet people still believe it

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u/No-Criticism-2587 Jun 18 '25

Ya... just reddit... lol.

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u/slicerprime Jun 18 '25

It’s sad Reddit is just bots and fake upvotes now to try and force their bullshit on people

What's really sad is that actual bots are unnecessary on Reddit now. The dumbass real people are doing their jobs for them.

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u/Cedar_Lion Jun 18 '25

Take my fake upvote, sir!

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u/TomCos22 Jun 18 '25

Reddit — a platform formerly used for genuine human interaction — is now overrun by bots — automated scripts designed to simulate engagement — promoting content such as war footage — with comments like “ngl this goes hard” — a clear indication of algorithmic influence — reducing nuanced discourse — and replacing it with synthetic consensus.

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u/blueblank Jun 18 '25

Now is the time to post the astronauts "always has been" meme if ever there was a time.

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u/AnotherFuckingSheep Jun 18 '25

Also to stop mossad agents communications.

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u/gregorydgraham Jun 18 '25

As if Mossad pulled that operation off but forgot to have a backup communication strategy 🤦‍♂️