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I mean I get the point but it's kinda pointless to quibble about numbers when the regime itself acknowledges they killed thousands. The meme implies this is made up but that's not so.
The Iranian people deserve help but I don't know what could actually help them. Not what Trump is doing certainly.
Ending the decades of trade sanctions might be a good step forward. Sanctions punish the poorest, the wealthy and powerful in any nation subject to sanctions miraculously find a way to maintain their lifestyles.
Oppressively authoritarian nations stay like that even without sanctions. Just look at places like Turkmenistan. It's has similar levels of oppression to North Korea and isn't on a sanction list. Or hell, just Saudi Arabia. The sanctions aren't the issue, the shitty dictators are and the only solution is to stop funding their regimes... but the oil is too good
It's also kinda irrelevant. Killing a bunch of army guys and 170 schoolgirls is not going to help the protesters.
Killing the Ayatollah, that was probably justice, considering the number of women oppressed, tortured, raped and killed under his watch. But destroying the machinery of civil society in Iran is just asking for a failed state, and potentially a new IS, or a warlord-ridden slave market territory like Libya.
First time poster on lemmy.zip makes a thread that attracts lemmy.ml posters like flies on a corpse.
Lol
they seriously want me to believe the country they coincidentally wanted to invade killed more people in a few weeks than a few years of genocide in gaza
We know that Israel and USA is bombing civilians in Iran.
We know that Iranian far right religious authoritarian regime killed many people.
Why some right wings weirdos are trying to say, that you cannot admit both facts?
USA and any other imperialism must be stoped. Iranian authoritarian regime have to be overthrown.
We know that Iranian far right religious authoritarian regime killed many people.
Yeah but five figure estimates are basically all propaganda. Not like four-digit numbers of dead protesters are acceptable of course, but calling the 36k figure CIA propaganda is about right.
Yeah but
It sounds like "I'm not racist but..."
There is no but. We know that so many people were killed. We know that it was right wing authoritarian time that was part of Russian imperialistic dreams.
I know people from Iran who hated the regime. Radical religion police are attacking woman for not wearing hijabs. Nowadays thousands were killed by the regime.
a moment from the 2023 wave of protests still sits with me. a woman being dragged away by the morality in a city center screaming "REMEMBER ME" as loud as she could as a crowd watched in silence. it haunts me
There is no but.
Except as I said there literally is a but. You're the one creating a false dichotomy here.
It doesn't matter if far right wing authoritarian Iranian regime killed tens of thousands or thousands of people. It is a crime, it should never happened, and if did, people in power should be punished for that.
Israel attack and bombing schools is another crime, but one crime does not makes the other one less important.
And where did I imply that I disagreed with this?
It's so absurd we talk about these fucking protestors while Israel is running dual genocides in Gaza and Sudan. Even if the 32k was real, and they flayed them all alive, Israel would still be the greater evil just via numbers alone.
Its 2026 and if you still even a shred of trust in anything related to the US government then my dick is magical and you need to come service it to receive a wish.
Some good reading about the National Endowment for Democracy aka NED https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy
A government-organized non-governmental organization
The US continues to be the land of oxymorons
Top image: good example of a non sequitur
Bottom image: great example of a non sequitur
I mean, look at US treatment of protesters and ask yourself if the government doing that shit has a moral leg to stand on even if the 36k number is true.
The murder at home...
Hear me out, Iran bad, America worse
one of my favorite slogans from 2003; 'regime change begins at home'
Look at the antisemite over here...
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Do i really need a /s? Maybe if I put it here in the spoiler it will still troll a few. 🤷
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I think putting it in the spoiler was the best play lol, didn't know for sure when I saw the reply in my inbox until I opened it lol
But seriously, how do MAGAts take Trump seriously when he says he's stopping wars while actively, openly, and proudly fueling one in the middle east?????
Oh, well then I'm sure no one died at all then and this isn't just splitting hairs. Right?
Just wait til tellimg the truth makes you feel suicidal enough to shoot yourself in the back of your head, twice.
But you see, I have already depicted you as the soyboy wojack and me as the cute confident wojack.
We’re gonna assist in the proud struggle of those [NED_slop] dead protesters by bombing a school! That will show em
I'd be yeah us is bad an we should do something about it to save innocent Iranians
Mossad rioters armed others, and killed 400 police officers in addition to setting fire to institutions. They took advantage of a protest over financial crisis related to large bank collapse that Iran agreed they would fix.
In addition to not trusting Mossad/CIA bodycount, you shouldn't even trust the "innocent protestor" narrative. You've seen US/ICE reaction to a school drop off driver being too slow to get out of the way.
