Thread of "Ridiculously Photogenic Soldier" (Israeli soldier) by poster with no prior posting history makes it to front page. Seems to be the Israelis are on a PR offensive, to go hand in hand with their offensive in Gaza.
328 2014-07-18 by R4F1
Thread of "Ridiculously Photogenic Soldier" (Israeli soldier) by poster with no prior posting history makes it to front page. Seems to be the Israelis are on a PR offensive, hand in hand with their offensive in Gaza.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2b06yz/ridiculously_photogenic_soldier/
Its one thing that Reddit has been swarmed by biased users, but now you have accounts being created/used specifically for the purpose of posting pro-Israeli comments and media.
91 comments
52 Redhawk1000 2014-07-18
This is classic hasbara propaganda :
1) Focus on one of two Jewish black guys in the car (to show they're not racist - when if he was a normal non-Zionist black dude he wont be there and would be deported, as they have done in the past with black people).
2) Have the rest of the IDF in the car look uninterested and "white" looking - to show that these Israelis look just like us Americans. They need pictures that the average American can relate to, and have us think "hey they look just like our soldiers back home".
-9 ZWhitford 2014-07-18
Except that this is reddit, and the "average American" is elsewhere.
14 readingonmyphone 2014-07-18
With the traffic we see on this site, we are probably a whole lot closer to average than you think.
0 FormalPants 2014-07-18
The population is entirely self-selected
2 [deleted] 2014-07-18
Jesus what rock do you live under?
0 ZWhitford 2014-07-18
Prove me wrong. Call a random phone number in any state and ask them if they're "a redditor."
0 [deleted] 2014-07-18
Everyone I know looks at reddit, except for old people.
0 ZWhitford 2014-07-18
You mean to tell me that a person who hangs out in r/conspiracy knows other young contemporaries who look at reddit?
Incredible!
And you don't know older people who do so because the median age in the US is near 40. Meaning the average American most likely does not frequent this website.
Or you could not dodge my first question and give that random number a call. I'll even let you call a major metropolitan area to make it easier on you.
1 [deleted] 2014-07-18
How about fuck off. I don't care about winning this internet argument.
2 ZWhitford 2014-07-18
Don't forget your ball.
-1 amazingGOB 2014-07-18
you sad, little man.
1 errihu 2014-07-18
You're also forgetting that anything that makes front page very shortly shows up on every social media site everywhere. Reddit is a good place to introduce stuff you want to circulate widely.
32 bozobozo 2014-07-18
Also an IDF soldier doing an AMA.
33 AugustSprite 2014-07-18
Yes, I got about halfway through that AMA and thought, "And now aren't you just someone every one can relate too."
I think what piqued me was that several other IDF guys were a bit like, "What are you doing? Get back to guard duty! You're going to get in trouble for this."
And the AMA guy brushes it off with a, "I won't get caught."
Now why would an IDF soldier be so nonchalant about his superiors' responses after doing a spontaneous AMA? Unless ...
6 bozobozo 2014-07-18
The "I won't get caught." line sounded pretty fishy to me.
5 ryan182 2014-07-18
Yeah man, Israel and the US are technological giants, and masters of spying on the internet. If they wanted too they would find out who it was.
1 bozobozo 2014-07-18
Unless of course they know who he is because he works for them. He admittedly works for the IDF. He could also work for JIDF.
-10 ZWhitford 2014-07-18
Why would a soldier be nonchalant about breaking a rule? Maybe because he's a practically a kid and performing his national service?
It's not like the world's military forces are stocked with the brightest minds.
10 [deleted] 2014-07-18
This is a sad fact. Most of the brightest Israeli children leave high school to enter a jail for refusing their mandatory military service due to their conscience.
Now that's a fuckin shame.
-1 YomKippor 2014-07-18
Bullshit. Prove it
1 [deleted] 2014-07-18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refusal_to_serve_in_the_IDF
Would you like other evidence?
0 YomKippor 2014-07-18
Where does it say (as you said) that the majority of intelligent Israelis both refuse to serve in the military AND are sent to jail? In what you linked the number that refuse is incredibly small.
1 [deleted] 2014-07-18
The best and the brightest are always a small group of any culture. What else can I think about people of principle who have the courage to face down their whole society in an effort to change it into a better place? What else can I call them but the best and the brightest?
1 YomKippor 2014-07-18
I don't even know what to say to this. You can't objectively prove that these people are any better or any worse than anyone else. If what qualifies someone as the best and the brightest is the same as how you're categorizing them anyway really has no meaning. For example, in the us the best and the brightest are court martialed for being deserters, and if by my criteria the best and the brightest are deserters, then it really makes no sense or has any meaning.
1 [deleted] 2014-07-18
I can absolutely prove that they are morally superior to the rest of their society. Or rather.. I can't prove it. They can and did.
7 glugglug 2014-07-18
FTFY
1 sweaterbuckets 2014-07-18
I don't get it. What's the J for? Seriously.
3 glugglug 2014-07-18
JIDF is the Zionist propaganda Internet army of paid shills.
1 sweaterbuckets 2014-07-18
huh.
1 bozobozo 2014-07-18
Thanks!
14 pauselaugh 2014-07-18
Now? Always.
14 iamagod___ 2014-07-18
I absolutely love the comments. The entire planet has finally done something right in their hatred for Zionist Israel. No longer supporting the forced occupation and apartheid of Palestinian innocents.
8 [deleted] 2014-07-18
I think hatred is a bit strong of a word. We should really try and stick to right and wrong. Let's leave the hatred for the extremists. It makes me nauseous and sick to stomach to hate things.
2 iamagod___ 2014-07-18
I absolutely despise them for their evil, inhuman actions against women and children with increasing regularity. They are scum.
-2 outflown 2014-07-18
thanks
10 [deleted] 2014-07-18
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10 Fight424 2014-07-18
If I had just eaten lunch, I may have just lost it. nearly 900 comments, I can only think of this
What a nice SS Officer & his cute pup...shit, colorize this picture & watch it rise to the top, ignorance, it may be the death of us.
7 Paddywhacker 2014-07-18
Hilarious. So utterly stupid, "ok guys, we need to show the Israeli army is nice, gimme your best ideas"
Can't get why the one on /r/pics was ripped into, exposed, called out, but the one on /r/funny was a hit, didn't see one comment calling it out
1 KingContext 2014-07-18
/r/MilitaryConspiracy
7 [deleted] 2014-07-18
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4 MrGobekli 2014-07-18
Relevant:
http://youtu.be/dPxv4Aff3IA
6 [deleted] 2014-07-18
We had that photo of the IDF guy knitting on the bus yesterday as well.
6 TimeTravelingToucan 2014-07-18
The IDF got a token black guy to make it seem like the Israeli government isn't racist?
5 datCommonSense 2014-07-18
Certainly not a coincidence. I had an interesting comment conversation with a shill, if anyone is interested I can do a screenshot of it. It is almost funny to me how afraid they are from the truth.
0 Rocket365 2014-07-18
please do.
-3 datCommonSense 2014-07-18
This guy is a good example how shills work, pretending to know it all. Claiming any other opinion crazy. This guy was clearly a newbie shill. I was pointing out that everyone should research on their own, and make decision on their own.
Watch the controversy threads, shills come in swarms to give the upvotes on what they want you to see, and to downvote what they do not want you to see. Convo Part 1 and Part2. I like to point and shame them.
6 [deleted] 2014-07-18
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-9 datCommonSense 2014-07-18
You are probably in the comedy shill department. Cause you are funny as hell :)
3 [deleted] 2014-07-18
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-5 datCommonSense 2014-07-18
You wrote 3 paragraphs and said nothing.
You really do not have any idea what I think and what I know, and how much research I have done.
And don't take it personally, but I sincerely do not care what you think. So what is the point of this? :)
0 [deleted] 2014-07-18
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-5 datCommonSense 2014-07-18
This is so cute. Combine 10 words from different subjects and roll them into one sentence.
I didn't even look up your comment history, thats how little I care about your opinion. :)
But now that you mention it, I did check it, and you look like a genuine person. You have a lot of comments of saying nothing tho. Maybe it's time you stand up for something? I'm not sure why do you insist writing nonsense here.
1 iamagod___ 2014-07-18
They can't possibly ever support the unsupportable position, so they simply distract and waste time. A massive waste of resources, however they dont care.
The world has finally turned on the evils of the illegitimate state of Israel. Its a beautiful thing to finally see these worthless scum to get what they deserve.o
0 iamagod___ 2014-07-18
Almost always after /r/conspiritard is used as a rally point to.bring all of the shills to the party. All 1-4 of them, with dozens of shared accounts amongst them.
0 Macbeth554 2014-07-18
You realize that conversation does nothing to show that the person was a shill, and it makes you look kind of bad by throwing out the accusation so quickly based on him defending vaccines.
I've defended vaccines before, does that automatically make me a shill?
5 yawrey 2014-07-18
I just realized today, why would Hamas break a cease fire. I haven't seen any evidence showing this actually happened before the ground invasion. What if Israel staged a rocket lunch from hams to give legitimize their invasion?
13 datCommonSense 2014-07-18
Thank you. I think Hamas is just a controlled fake opposition used to further an agenda. Ron Paul: Israel created Hamas
10 GhostOflolrsk8s2 2014-07-18
Israel did heavily fund Hamas decades ago before it became so extreme as a counter to the secular PLO.
Literally just true and not a theory.
-8 batsdx 2014-07-18
Ironic, since Ron Paul is the same but for Democrata/Republicans.
2 Needbouttreefiddy 2014-07-18
wat?
-2 batsdx 2014-07-18
Ron Paul is just another lying corporate puppet like Warren or Obama.
3 igobyalexis 2014-07-18
Uhhh. No. Evidence or get the fuck out
-6 batsdx 2014-07-18
Uhhh. Yes. Stop believing in the bullshit politicians tell you.
1 Patrick5555 2014-07-18
ron paul is the real deal and tried to warn us of the happening
-3 batsdx 2014-07-18
He's a distraction.
2 Patrick5555 2014-07-18
how? he is the only one not distracting us from the happening
1 igobyalexis 2014-07-18
Haha.. I know the guy personally you sack of wine, and I'll tell you he has nothing to do with the shenanigans that go on in D.C.
Look up his record and show me evidence of him doing anything but voting pure principle. Ron Paul is the real deal. Rand, maybe not so much.
Have a good afternoon.
1 batsdx 2014-07-18
So? If his only purpose is to distract and absorb votes, it doesn't matter what he says or how he votes.
1 igobyalexis 2014-07-18
Your hair is a bird. Your argument is irrelevant.
1 batsdx 2014-07-18
It looks less bad if you just never reply. Coming back two months later with that reply indicates you were so shaken that this was the best you could come up with.
1 igobyalexis 2014-07-18
Haha you're fun
4 [deleted] 2014-07-18
This is what I've been saying all along. There is no way that anybody who is working for Hamas would be firing those piece of shit rockets that do zero damage in the face of the overwhelming retaliation that must surely follow.
I would believe Hamas was legit if those shitrockets were tipped with chemical or biological weapons. I mean any shitty system can be used to deliver stuff like that. But it isn't. And Hamas if it were real would have the connections to get their hands on some shit like that. But they don't.
This whole thing is a fucking boondoggle but good luck getting the rest of the world to understand that. Most people think in this really linear single tiered fashion. They can only deal with one concept at a time which must flow into the next concept and the next. It's easy to get people like that going around in circles in their mind until they get fed up and go get a cheeseburger.
2 iamagod___ 2014-07-18
This wouldn't be the first time this has been PROVEN.
0 yawrey 2014-07-18
You mean the first time the existen of a controlled fake opposition is proven? Or the example of Hamas/Israel?
2 [deleted] 2014-07-18
They always seem to do this at the worst possible time.
4 totes_meta_bot 2014-07-18
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3 jkennedude 2014-07-18
I'm pretty sure this is considered vote brigading... OP might want to slap an np prefix on that link.
2 ronintetsuro 2014-07-18
You know, just in case the goyim see through the MH17 misdirection story.
2 un1ty 2014-07-18
9 month old account, 3 posts total: one comment and the pic twice (again after the first had bombed).
Seems to be one of those 'create and sell' accounts - the age gives it some slight legitimacy.
2 KingContext 2014-07-18
/r/MilitaryConspiracy
2 umatbru 2014-07-18
Saw that a couple of top comment accusing the post of being propaganda. good on them.
1 Jude_Fetzen911 2014-07-18
Is that black face?
1 IAmNotHariSeldon 2014-07-18
Please use NP links, I forgot I clicked through and started voting. Not looking to get shadowbanned.
1 iamagod__ 2014-07-18
What is the Yiddish term? Dagu? They certainly don't mind when they join the murderers league. Just as long as they don't try to join the faith, rock on and kill Palestinian rock throwing civilians. Israel is an illegitimate state.
1 Neo-Eleos 2014-07-18
seems to go both ways... makes me wonder of Reddit has become a sewage of disinformation... what a tragedy...
0 dtrainescobar 2014-07-18
I went through a number of the MSM websites, infowars etc... in terms of how many articles are on their sites right now about the malaysian airlines flight vs the israeli invasion in gaza.
Some highlights: Msnbc.com has zero articles at 8am est when I did the research on the invasion in gaza, and hundreds about the plane.
CNN has hundreds about the plane, 2 at 8am about the invasion of gaza, the first article was at 11pm est 7/17, nearly 10hours after it started.
Fox news had about 2 articles on the front page about the invasion and of course dozens about the plane.
Cbsnews as well, 1 article about the invasion at 3am est on 7/18, and hundreds about the plane.
Reuters, bbc have about the same ratio, 2-3articles about the invasion, and hundreds about the plane.
Infowars not surprising has only 2 articles about the invasion in gaza and 14 articles about the plane shot down.
1 fcghp666 2014-07-18
For what it's worth, CNN was all over the invasion most of last night.
0 BoltWire 2014-07-18
why did you include a link to a link though?
1 iamagod___ 2014-07-18
Which beautifully we all do. Fuck Zionist controlled Israel. Fuck these murderers of innocent and women and children. Fuck their forced occupation.
1 R4F1 2014-07-18
So that people can see the whole thread, click on the username and verify the facts themselves? If i link directly to the link (the pic), this thread would be meaningless.
-2 THREE_EDGY_FIVE_ME 2014-07-18
So was the "ridiculously photogenic Syrian Rebel" last year also a propaganda campaign?
-7 stepson_of_baconator 2014-07-18
Of course it was! Don't you realize that everything that gets posted on here is automatically 100% verified conspiracy!
3 ronintetsuro 2014-07-18
If people keep accusing Conspiracy of this, maybe one day it will be true!
Keep trying guys, never lose hope!
3 iamagod___ 2014-07-18
Don't waste time with the blatant shills. Worthless.
0 iamagod___ 2014-07-18
Almost always after /r/conspiritard is used as a rally point to.bring all of the shills to the party. All 1-4 of them, with dozens of shared accounts amongst them.
10 [deleted] 2014-07-18
This is a sad fact. Most of the brightest Israeli children leave high school to enter a jail for refusing their mandatory military service due to their conscience.
Now that's a fuckin shame.
3 igobyalexis 2014-07-18
Uhhh. No. Evidence or get the fuck out
0 Macbeth554 2014-07-18
You realize that conversation does nothing to show that the person was a shill, and it makes you look kind of bad by throwing out the accusation so quickly based on him defending vaccines.
I've defended vaccines before, does that automatically make me a shill?