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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Buddy come on now, there's "no proof" of Iran moving towards building nuclear weapons like there's "no proof" Epstein killed himself.
I never supported the Iraq occupation, or US + Israel's and Iran's ongoing conflicts, just one time commented I wasn't overly upset (wasn't happy either) to the single in-context action of destroying a nuclear site without killing anyone. I don't actually like wars and think we'd all be better off if we had leaders who built bridges instead of bombs.
One shouldn't equate 0 people dead with well over 7,000 people dead because they are both against international law.
My opposition to 7000+ humans being deliberately massacred by the Iranian government isn't that it's against the law, it's the 7000+ dead humans. Laws are not morals.
Keep exposing your hypocrisy
Actually believing Iran was going to build the nuclear weapons is like saying Saddam has WMD
The genocidal state of Israel also have secret nukes, you don't seem to have problem with that
The assessments from U.S. Intelligence, the IAEA, and the Khamenei fatwa all indicate that there is no active Iranian nuclear weapons program. These findings directly contradict decades of claims made by Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly insisted that Iran is on the verge of building a bomb.
My opposition to 7000+ humans being deliberately massacred by the Iranian government isn’t that it’s against the law, it’s the 7000+ dead humans. Laws are not morals.
You do not oppose the murder of 7k plus otherwise you would not support Israel who is responsible of 70k death , 83% of them are civilians and the United snakes responsible of over a million of deaths
How are we even this far in the weeds??
This isn't some debate you're "winning" by strawmanning the crap out of me. I explained where I'm at, and at this point you're just putting words in my mouth to then tear down. If you want to have an argument with yourself, go ahead buddy, I will no longer be involved.