There’s no doubt a key driver behind opposition to the Gaza massacre, especially among normie types, has been the footage from smartphones showing the mass destruction and casualties.

Hypothetically, if the War in Iraq occurred with 2023 smartphone technology, how would this have impacted public opinion?

Would Bush have been re-elected in 2004?

Also, for historians of the war, is there a particular atrocity during the war that has been documented by activists or watchdogs but has limited photographic evidence, that had it been recorded by smartphone, could have single-handedly turned the tide of public opinion?

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    No, Americans don’t even care about genocide now

    A bunch of boomers, Gen Xers and older millennials definitely wouldn’t have cared about Iraq twenty years ago even with Twitter or Tik Tok

    The Abu Ghraib photos are just as horrific as anything coming out of Gaza now and it didnt change anything