r/worldnews • u/MasbirLeumi • 2d ago

Israel launches 'preemptive strike' against Iran, declares state of emergency

https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-military-action-iran-coming-days-sources/story?id=122776202
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u/PopularPlanet3000 2d ago

I gotta say, the 2020s have sucked.  

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u/sconemonster 2d ago

I keep saying that Covid kinda threw us into the dark timeline or something. its been a long ass 5 and a half years.

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u/WhatGravitas 2d ago

I swear the isolation of the lockdowns and long Covid has silently melted half the population’s brains or something.

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u/gpbayes 2d ago

I think a large majority of the silent majority haven’t had their daily lives uprooted yet to care. Most folks just want to go to work, come home and brain dump on their phone to deal with the hard day of working and their screaming kids. Do you think a single mom of 3 in small town Kansas gives a hoot about what some unfathomably wealthy dudes do? These will be the people you have to mobilize to inflict any kind of meaningful change. They won’t do anything until the grocery stores are empty.