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The craziest thing about the new war on Iran is they don't even have any clear-cut, manufactured justification for it to give the media. They didn't even bother. (lemmygrad.ml)

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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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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It'll be "Iran is bad and evil, and obviously we could not allow them to acquire a nuke, but we care about human life and blowing up 165 little girls is an atrocity, which is why under my administration we will only be killing their parents"

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iran is bad and evil, and obviously we could not allow them to acquire a nuke

If anyone tries this on me, my response will be "If Iran had nukes, those schoolgirls would still be alive"

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

(Based on arguments I've had with supposed 'bleeding heart lefty' Zionists)

A large number of people would then counter with 'those girls would be alive but then Israel would be a smoking radioactive crater'. They simply don't 'value' (or consider, for that matter) non-white people. The calculus here is 1 Israeli > any number of non-Israelis.

You can't argue or counter argue a liberal into the correct position, it just throws their white supremacy into stark relief.

That being said, I think it could be a useful counter to some people, but yeah not a silver bullet retort, if that makes sense.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

'those girls would be alive but then Israel would be a smoking radioactive crater'

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

those girls would be alive but then Israel would be a smoking radioactive crater

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