I like how the media is hammering in the identity of the hero not because of "DEI" or "wokeness", but to counter the obvious bad faith right wing actors that would spread fake news.
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They already do, after Grok (of course) hallucinated them a new white hero, and they're using AI to edit that nonexistent guy into the photos.
Apparently a bunch of right wing Internet media keeps trying to name him "Edward Crabtree" and cover up the fact that he's Muslim
Holy shit that's awful.
https://bestlagos.ng/fact-check-is-edward-crabtree-the-real-bondi-hero/
MAGAs are perfectly willing to lie to advance their agenda, they think lying and cheating are perfectly legitimate tools. If their opponents choose to not use those strategies out of sense of morality, that's on them. MAGAs feel no obligation to comply.
This will be the first election where AI and deep fakes are fully available. I've been waiting for this moment, and here it is. Which party will embrace deep fakes, and try to run campaign ads featuring their opponents saying and doing fraudulent things? I think we all know.
Yeah, a Muslim being the hero in stopping other Muslims from killing Jews really messes up their preferred narrative.
"What am I supposed to do with THIS?!". - Israeli Department of Propaganda
who cares what online racist dweebs think or say about anything?
A lot of people, unfortunately
I do because it affects our politics. Where do you think Trump came from? Born straight out of Fox News propaganda.
How do you know he’s Muslim? Lots of Arabs are Christian, some non religious.
Ahmed is the Muslim prophet nickname. But he could be atheist.
Children usually dont decide what their parents name them...
On another platform, someone claimed he was maronite christian. I guess I'll have to wait until someone asks him in an interview. 🤷
This seems unlikely. Ahmed comes from the same root as Muhammad. His cousin was interviewed and named Mustapha, also an epithet of Muhammad. I don't know too much about Maronite Christian naming conventions, but these two names have a pretty explicit association with Muhammad in Arabic.
~~WAT~~
I thought you meant that the right wing was covering up the religion of the attacker, not the hero, sorry.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a fruit store.
Seriously though, this brave man proves that you don't need a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. We need fewer guns, not more.
If fruit stores are outlawed only outlaws will have fruit stores.
Bet the republikkkans won't call this man a hero. He isn't white.
And he didn’t have a gun himself. Breaking their myth that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
What about a good guy who takes away the bad guy's gun? That's new territory for rationalizationists.
Idk why, but it totally feels like he should be the gun's new owner now.
That's how it works in video games. I'm all for it. It would be a nice trophy to hang on the wall.
Mr Ahmed, who was wearing a white T-shirt, was shot twice in the incident and was due to have surgery, his cousin, Mustafa, has revealed.
Who shot him? I'm assuming the terrorist. Or was it the cops?
The other terrorist.
This doesn't clear up whether it was the police who shot him or not...
Yeah, I'm a little unclear on that, too. It seems like he disarmed the first shooter, and the second shooter must have shot the hero from the bridge. I think that's what happened. Somehow one shooter (Dad) ended up dead, and the other (Son) wounded, but I'm not sure which was which.
Dad lived a life of violence when he was young. He advised me to attack the weapon, not the man. This guy focused on the weapon, not beating ass. Good on him.
Your dad is right — but if you only go for the business end of the weapon, then a simple rotation can put you in front of the business end. You want to stay on the end towards the enemy, and keep your body towards their body.
Go for the hands, and turn your body into their body. Use that leverage to wrest the weapon. Obviously easier said than done. Somehow Ahmed did it perfectly.
What did sniper tf2 know that we don't?
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/1/17/Sniper_taunts17.wav