You’re hanging out with associates, and one in every of you is sporting an Adidas hoodie. The long-lasting trefoil emblem has an additional knot although. A quatrefoil, if you’ll. You wittily quip “while you get Adidas, however from Ali Categorical!” and your mates begin laughing regardless that they’ve heard one million variations of that joke, method too many instances already.
The “from Ali Categorical” is a operating joke now, usually aimed toward poorly executed makes an attempt to knockoff a greater product, particular person or state of affairs. Hezbollah, and their handlers in Tehran, preserve ensuring this joke stays related, irrespective of what number of instances nobody falls for his or her poorly-made propaganda props.
Just a few days in the past, Hezbollah-affiliated accounts began sharing screengrabs of what appears to be like like an affordable Boston Dyanmics “Spot” robotic “canine” sporting a black jumpsuit.
Let’s Hope Hezbollah By no means Figures Out Google’s Reverse Picture Search
A fast Google Lens therapy of essentially the most broadly shared picture whereas between Subway stations and barely any connection, exhibits that it’s from a Russian “military discussion board” in August 2022. You’ll be able to see the precise video the screengrab is from on Ruptly. I froze it on part of the video the place the pink pants and sneakers are the identical:
Kinda unhappy they suppose anybody is naive sufficient to consider the Captagon smuggling brigades of Nasrallah might truly construct a fully-functional robotic with an RPG on it…
You would possibly forgive the Hezbollah twitter military for taking the freedom in selecting their very own picture for this “excessive tech” Hezbollah know-how, however one was sort sufficient to share a BTS picture from an occasion this weekend in Baalbek the place Nasrallah appeared on a big display screen from his hiding place.
As you may see, the precise robotic that Hezbollah “showcased” didn’t have the black jumpsuit outfit just like the one within the Russian video.
The Precise Robotic Prices 500$ on Ali Categorical
You could find the itemizing right here.
So, in different phrases, Russian state TV lied about having an armed robotic canine it calls “M-81 robotic system” that it sells for $2700. Just a few days later, with out even bothering so as to add a faux weapons system on its again, Hezbollah purchased one and made it roam round its Baalbek occasion over the weekend.
It’s just like the film inception, however with dangerous propaganda props they lazily recycled from their ally and associate in crimes in opposition to humanity in Syria, Putin.
Not Iran’s First Unhealthy Propaganda Joke
The apple doesn’t fall removed from the tree, and that’s 100% true with Hezbollah and Iran. Who can neglect Iran’s hilarious “home” stealth fighter (which had a Cesna single-prop dashboard within the “unveiling”) and no nozzle, and one of the best half, they photoshopped it flying above a CG-generated panorama from Pickywallpapers.com. Their photo-chop man additionally forgot to regulate the lighting on the fighter jet’s crop job…
And, in fact, who can neglect once they added an additional missile to one in every of their checks again in 2008?
Humiliating and Unhappy
What do you do when all you must provide your followers are empty guarantees and glossy, drained slogans? Why, conspiracy theories in fact! The group that ran on the identical listing as a banker accused of stealing your financial savings, blames a world conspiracy for the crimes (monetary and in any other case) that Lebanon’s subordinate ruling class has dedicated below Hezbollah’s command.
However, even the victimhood narrative isn’t promoting anymore and it’s a bit exhausting to disregard Hezbollah’s complicity if not direct oversight over Lebanon’s man-made disaster on all fronts.
So, all that’s left for the glorified Captagon smugglers and Ammonium Nitrate brokers of Assad, is to lie about having superior know-how, once they can’t even determine the best way to pump water of their neighborhoods and supply electrical energy for his or her cities.
It’s simply so unhappy and humiliating that it’s such a poorly accomplished propaganda job. Like, come on Nasrallah, spend a couple of minutes in your hilarious lies subsequent time. That is too straightforward.
