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'Why is the US bombing Iran?' has got to be one of the most searched prompts on google these past few days. And the closest thing to a current answer you will find is "We attacked them because they were going to have nukes and then use them on us, it's self-defense." - There is a lack of evidence for this claim btw.

That is like as if you invade someone's home, shoot and kill them and your defense in court for it is, "Your honour, I had to do it because I had suspicions they were going to adopt a guard dog and then use that guard dog to attack me while I was walking down the street!"

Blatant, mask-off imperialism. How anyone can continue to view America and Israel on the right side of history baffles me.

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[–] huf@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago (6 children)

nah, they have a very well oiled justification: iran is evil. that's it. that's ultimately what it all boils down to.

[–] pongo1231@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't even claim to bring democracy to Iran, their most likely candidate is the fucking Shah

Ironically my friend misspoke the other day and told me that Israel just killed the Shah of Iran. The times have been so nuts that I didn't even assume they were mistaken and mentally spun out trying to come up with a reason why Israel and America would kill both the ayetullah and the shah on the same day.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah, cuck schumer said some shit earlier about iran being america's oldest enemy. scolding trump for not having a public debate about doing the baby killing but implicitly agreeing with the principle of the thing. classic democrat shit.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

iran being america's oldest enemy

and that's not even true, Korea and Cuba have longer been thorns in the side of the empire.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

I think history is vibes based now. I've been noticing a lot of libs getting their order of events conveniently confused in screenshots when they're arguing with posters who go teaching marxism to the rest of lemmy.

[–] PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That might work on some of the smooth-brain, diehard MAGA cultists but it is not even close enough to convince the general public in the US and internationally.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

eh, the rest of the west will both sides a bit and then fall in line. like this: "yes, this was poorly thought out and congress didnt approve it, but i'm glad we're bombing iran, they're evil"

and then years later they'll say it was stupid and wrong while they do nothing about the current atrocity.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and say "yes the war was bad, but the Ayatollah was evil!"

[–] huf@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

second time as a farce because it's wild how they don't see it coming.

[–] PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago

I really don't think the majority of the working class are THIS gullible, surely, right? Right??

this guy looks scary! khomeini

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Manicheanism alive and well in the 21st century :augustine-shining:

“Well-oiled” 😏