It’s not quite the “fell for it again” award. It’s the “duped because I’m ignorant about history” award. Even if you are against Khamenei and the cleric class of leaders, the Americans are not, and never will be, your friends.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I mean... My dad who passed and his brother who is very much alive moved tot the US from Iran in 1968 and served in Vietnam in the Engineering corps and lived through American interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. My Mom's family are Iraqi lol

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Crazy how you use the word serving. It is not serving , it is participating in Illegal wars

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While I agree with your intent English isn't my primary spoken language at the moment and I'm falling back on the colloquial language I know lol

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even american use the word serve.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago

Serve the capitalist agenda

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

So they’re from the “America is the land of milk and honey, where there is endless opportunity, and dreams can come true” generation of migrants.

My own family is the same, but the illusion has been shattered for them over the last several years.

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I’d be curious of any diaspora differences. How would a Swedish Irani expat’s opinions differ from an Irani from Teh-ronto or Tehr-angeles?

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is that a star trek reference?

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Not to my knowledge or intention.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

In the liberal mind 6 teen dandys opinion is the same as the 100000 mourning

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 7 points 4 months ago

Give it a couple of years and they will hate him as much as most other people do.

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Why isn’t it called Iranian separatist or rebels?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Americans hate Trump

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

Is this like one of those fake Venezuelan freedom videos after Meduro's capture?

[–] redrumBot@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He is someone who hate muslims and support the genocide in Gaza because of it

[–] Bidah@thelemmy.club 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Many sunnies hate quranists too

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Again this guys support the murder of muslims just for being muslims