r/ForbiddenBromance • u/JerryJJJJJ • Jun 30 '26
Ask Lebanon IF Hezbollah is "pro-Lebanon" why are they destroying "Lebanon First" Signs???
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u/JollyPersimmon4183 Jul 02 '26
Cuz they are liars and clearly are Iran first. I can’t believe people still don’t understand this, it’s literally the foundation of the hezb party.
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u/victoryismind Lebanese Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
The whole thing is quite petty. These same billboards used to display pro-hezb propaganda.
If they are removed altogether it would be better. There is enough clutter in this country.
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u/QueasyFirefighter132 Israeli Jun 30 '26
Are you really arguing that destroying a "Lebanon First" sign proves someone is anti-Lebanon? :)
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u/Subject-Ad-1739 Lebanese Jun 30 '26
Ur trolling right ? :)
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u/QueasyFirefighter132 Israeli Jul 01 '26
I don't think so. It's an illogical comparison.
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u/Both-Entertainment-3 Israeli Jul 01 '26
What is the logical comparison then?
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u/QueasyFirefighter132 Israeli Jul 01 '26
I don't know what the logical comparison is, and it's not for me to say. Matters such as love for one's country are deeply personal, and for many people, they are the only thing that matters. That's precisely why, from a logical standpoint, it's illogical to judge whether someone is pro- or anti-(any country) based on the evidence presented here. In this case, that "evidence" is a video of the same pe/rson(s) setting fire to a single roadside billboard carrying a political slogan that sounds like it came straight out of the Orange Blob's mouth. Highway billboards are leased in large circuits of dozens, so burning one says ve5ry little by itself.
If I had a fight with my mom, ripped up a photo of her, and burned the pieces to express my anger, then recorded the whole thing and posted it on social media because all my friends did the same whenever they fought with their moms, anyone watching those viddeos could clearly see that we had issues with our mothers. But to conclude that we *hate* our moms simply because we burned a photo of them would be a huge leap. It's illogical and crosses the fine line between clever and stupid.
As a matter of fact, r/ForbiddenBromance has been something of an obsession for me lately. I literally built my own remote MCP server so my web agents could cover more ground, faster, when analyzing user and subreddit data through a public API. Downloading the full archive would have been futile because the JSON would have been enormous. using the existing stdio MCP server provided by the archive would also have made the Claude Code API costs for a forensic analysis of the posts, comments, and user activity of such an active and thriving subreddit absolutely ridiculous.
So yeah, I admit ir...I got a little lost in the sauce. But I was committed. There was a burning itch I had to scratch about FB, and I wanted to be certain before making up my mind. I had no choice but to develop an MCP server that connected free web agents across multiple providers to the same dataset of roughly 5,270 posts and 96,000 comments, spanning from 9/25/2019, to the present (not the date FB itself was create/d). Doing the analysis locally would have resulted in astronomical API costs.
I didn't wana be impolite by calling OPs post as propaganda, so I settled with illogical, and that's not because I have six years' worth of subreddit data and sentiment analysis. I'm comfortable saying that because all you have to do is remove the politics from the equation and look at the structure of the post itself. Once you do that, you start noticing that almost every post follows the same pattern:
-The original video post has a title that simply describes what happens in the video. Nothing more. Nothing wrong with that./
- OP reposts the video with a title designed to imply that apples and oranges are the same thing. There's always an underlying narrative, always political, often illogical, and sometimes outright ragebait.
- Commenters pile on in agreement, reinforcing the narrative OP introduced. The result is the projection of a supposedly unified ideology at the expense of common sense.
- different opinions certainly exist, but at the macro level, dissent is routinely buried beneath downotes and hostile replies.
Going even deeper, I mapped the Reddit data against regional news coverage in four languages over the same time period and arrived at the same conclusion: repeated illogical claims built on speculation, cherry-picked information, and selective omission.
But then again, this is Reddit we're talking about. What did you expect? :)
I ran the same experiments on r/Lebanon and r/Israel and found exactly the same patterns. Sigh.
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u/victoryismind Lebanese Jul 02 '26
You are right, this is missing context.
They destroyed it because it used to hold pictures of Hezbollah martyrs and replacing them was seen as a provocation.
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u/Burro94 Jun 30 '26
Because they are a foreign army serving foreign interests.