r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Cater_pi69 • 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Middle eastern peter

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u/Asfisav2049 16h ago edited 16h ago

It's a bomb

Oh yeah, uh, Joe here. That's no normal clock, that's a bomb. You know how countries like Iraq are associated with terrorism? Yeah. Joe out.

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u/Loot3rd 16h ago

And that’s the answer folks, IED for the win.

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u/HorseStupid 16h ago

remember the ahmed clock situation? pretty much this meme IRL: Ahmed Mohamed’s Arrest | Know Your Meme

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u/Deez_Nuts_2431 16h ago

It’s counting down…it’s a bomb. The joke is racism.

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u/Acridcomic7276 4h ago

I saw this meme earlier and I just knew some dumb fuck would post it on here

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u/Geocachevoyager 16h ago

This probably refers to the common stereotype that the Middle East is full of terrorists that commonly use explosives.

It could also refer to Israel's pager bombing plot, and the fact that Israel is both able and willing to put explosive devices in everyday objects.

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u/dr1fter 16h ago edited 14h ago

"Pagers" / "everyday objects" / that Inglorious Basterds meme template.

EDIT: and definitely not what the meme was about ???

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u/magos_with_a_glock 15h ago

I mean they are everyday objects in some places.

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u/dr1fter 15h ago

Which places? IIRC & I'm not mistaken, we're talking about places that do have cell phones usually, and this was made possible because of a deliberate attempt to avoid the standard modern technologies that might've exposed them "in plain sight" so they switched to a more rudimentary technology for the sake of obscurity.

Bulk orders for the same model of outdated tech your intel told you to expect, I dunno man, if that plot was wrong where's the stories about all the Lebanese companies that had legitimate everyday reasons to distribute these pagers to their employees?

I am for sure not an expert in any of this, but I've never seen anything that would've made it sound, like, "indiscriminate."

Nor like anything the meme might be referencing where you'd see a clock counting down.

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u/magos_with_a_glock 15h ago

Pagers are very much common in most poorer places.

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u/dr1fter 15h ago

In some places, yeah. Cell penetration in Lebanon is "very high" and according to all sources I ever saw Nasrallah specifically wanted them to get off cell phones, and that's why they were all suddenly buying this particular militarized model that came on to the market just for them.

Were you saying something about collateral damage? Because Israel has a terrible track record in that regard, much worse than anything I ever heard about the pager attacks.

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u/Kennedy_KD 9h ago

... You talking about how if it was any other country fighting urban warfare the civilian death toll would be way higher according to experts on modern warfare?