• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It’s indeed quite the mix joingoist delusions of grandeur making the average American think they as individuals are superior to those from other countries whilst not actually having much in the way of values, breadth of knowledge, education or wisdom.

    Reminds me how the other day I was watching a Documentary about the war in Afghanistan and at one point there was this American soldier (possibly a Lieutenant) trying to convince a bunch of locals including some elders of something or other and even I (who am Portuguese) could recognize that this guy in his mid/late 20s was totally missing the social clues and natural social structure of the place, for example and not giving the face-saving “respect” to the elders of that culture even if you’re in a position of strength - go to a place thinking you’re a superior person with a superior culture and superior ways and don’t be surprised if the locals seem to “respect” your strength in your face whilst giving you the run-around if they can get away with it and undermining you behind your back.

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    Let’s get real, Iran is, all in all, just the better, more sophisticated and moral/progressive country. tbh i would prefer to live there if it wasnt for the US carpet bombing the shit out of civilan infrastructure :D

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    TBF, they literally don’t have the range to hit anything other than US military bases and ships.

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      They could hit schools in USA allied countries where the USA military bases are. They could explicitly target the schools in the USA military bases. They’re not doing that, we would be told if they did.

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        I get what your saying, but I doubt they could. The attacks on Israel have shown that they are not exactly using precision weapons.

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          Their attacks on Israel have shown they have exact opposite. High precision missiles targeting radar installations and military bases despite jamming.

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            Cluster bombs are not particularly high precision weapons. I’m all for destroying the Israeli fascist regime but let’s not pish to far with propaganda.

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          Well, they could target a school in Qatar and end up hitting some residential area, but we’re not seeing that, it’s military bases that get hit and there’s better stuff to target than schools.

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            That is exactly what we saw during the ballistic missile and drone attack waves on Israel.

            Yes USA bad, but let’s not pretend Iran has the moral high ground, sponsoring proxies groups that mostly attack civilians has been their spiel for decades.

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    🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 acts in 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 like 🇷🇺 🪆 🇷🇺 acts in 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦.

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    The USA is 100% locked down by Israel.

    Fuck Israel. Israel hates everyone that isn’t them, they want to kill or enslave us all.

    I am not looking for people to reply to me I’m wondering why all these Israeli leaders saying “Only Israel matters” isn’t a bigger issue.

    … I’m now remembering I’m not on Reddit and I can relax and not immediately jump into self defence mode.

    Free Palestine, kill child predators and Nazis! Nice to not be on Reddit.

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      You just going to ignore June 2025 and October 2024 when Iranian rain was falling down on Tel Aviv?

      Why is this argument with Israel always so one sided.

      Hamas reenacts ww2 genocides, grandma’s stories came to live on that bodycam footage, nobody bats an eye. Israel responds and everyone yells 'genocide".

      Iran bombs israel to literrally celebrate the butchering of 700 civilians a year prior. Israel escalates in response and here we are, blaming Israel for getting bombed first.

      The US had to help Israel in October 2023 due to Israels own systems being overwhelmed and the US prevented a lot of death and destruction in Tel Aviv.

      Ya’ll being played by propaganda from foreign not western forces. Breaking up the western alliances by causing internal turmoil because the people are easily influenced in their little bubbles.

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        Israel started genociding Palestinians all the way back in the 1940s with the Nakba.

        You can only claim this was “started” by Palestinians by very purposefully and very selectivelly choosing a cut-off point in time and refusing to acknowledge anything that happened before that.

        Further, even if we accepted your incredibly selective time window to support the claim that “Hamas started it”, after the “who started it” comes the issue of “is the response of the injured part proportionate”, and given that the number of just the children in Gaza killed by Israel actually exceeds even Israel’s own claimed number of israelis killed in October 2024 by at least a factor of 10x, the response is undeniably incredibly disproportionate.

        Taking in account the entirety of History as well as the number and nature of those killed by both sides, the reality of what we see now is an invading and occupying group - Israelis - who have been stealing from and killing the people of the land they occupied for almost a century, responded to the latest response from a Resistance groups of the people whose land is occupied with an incredibly disproportionate response were the civilians themselves (including children) were activelly targetted, to the point that they exceeded the violence and murderousness of the actual NAZIs in similar situations in the land they occupied during WWII - the NAZIs killed far fewer civilians in Occupied France as “punishment” for the actions of the Resistance Française than Israelis killed just in this one instance of response to the actions of the Palestinian Resistance.

        It’s pretty spectacular to surpass even the NAZIs in murderousness.

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        Why is this argument with Israel always so one sided.

        Because the war is onesided? It’s less of a war but a slaughter. There’s a lot more proof against Israel doing horrible thing to palestinian than hamas did to israeli, obviously people gonna lock in on that.

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    Man this sounds an awful lot like Russias MO.

    Doesn’t work for them either.

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      russians are more into firing ballistic missiles into residential housings in the middle of the night these days. still doesn’t work.

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        Sad day to see Russia so Americanised. Where’s the good old days of prison work camps and mass deportations into remote wildlands to create workforce, or bringing democracy to Afghanistan…

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          America has more non violent prisoners than any country to ever exist, lol.

          They left a cutout in the constitution that allows slavery to be used for punishment for a crime.

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      America over here calling up bestiality bros to fill FBI vacancies. Everything is under control under the reign of King Don’s stable genius.

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    I’ll put on my cynical hat, and assume Iran isn’t a perfect humanitarian state.

    They are fighting a different war, they know if the US gets the slightest amount of public support it’ll be Iraq/Afghanistan all over again, while the US is bombing Iran, Iran is fighting the propaganda war, and they are doing amazing.

    From the lego videos, to only hitting targets the US public don’t care/can’t complain. Like military bases, Amazon Data centers…

    They only have to fight until next election cycle. And this extremely unpopular offensive will be over. and they might even get a friendlier US administration.

    Trump is 100% losing this war.

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      Iran is not perfect, but they do have very strong convictions and their own conception of what it means to be a humanitarian state.

      Iran never developed or used chemical weapons against Iraq, even when Iraq used it against them. Producing chemical weapons is easy and Iran could have easily done it hade they wanted to.

      In the same vein, Iran could have had nuclear weapons had they not decided to ban weapons of mass destruction.

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        Throwing Kurdish youth activists out of windows is a pretty broad definition of not perfect humanitarianism.

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      They only have to fight until next election cycle. And this extremely unpopular offensive will be over. and they might even get a friendlier US administration.

      Chuck and Hakeem criticisms of the war is that it is not being run competently enough, when Trump had a stopped-clock-moment and signed the first peace deal, they and the rest of BlueMaga were saying TACO Trump.

      I have no faith a Gavin Newsom presidency stops the war.

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        Americans may believe that Democrats will end the war, but I assure you Iranians are under no such delusions. This is not Trump’s war or Netanyahu’s war, it is the Pentagon’s war. Failure to realize this is cope.

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      There also aren’t too many US schools in the area, but a lot of military bases.

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    Still the only nation to have nuked cities.

    Thank goodness it was the good guys who did it and the bad guys have never done it. It’d be horrific if the bad guys did it.

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        It just struck me. Germany invented missiles just before Japan sent their boys on suicide runs as living missiles. The nazi scientists in the US watching Japan throw so many people away must have felt pretty self satisfied

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        You are aware the nukes were dropped on Japan, not Germany, right? Like at that time Germany was already defeated.

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          Yeah the Japanese weren’t exactly doing great things at the time but their failure to offer a complete and immediate surrender following the collapse of the Nazi regime did not and could never justify the two most horrific, apocalyptic single attacks ever committed against a civilian population. The US leaders did it because they could, and because they wanted to show off their new toy.

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    Uh, Iran has bombed a bunch of civilian sites. Also massacred tens of thousands of activists then blacked out the internet to hide it from the world.

    Sorry, but there are no good guys in this one.

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      So Iran was able to kill as many civilians as Israel did in 2 years, in one week, hide the bodies, clean the blood, and convince the families not to say anything? No news footage, no cell footage…

      We just have to take the word of a pedophile rapist billionaire government?

      All this while mossad literally admitted to having agents in the protests??

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      I would take “tens of thousands” with reserve. It would put casualty rate up there with Ukraine and Gaza war. And all this with small firearms vs 1000kg bombs in war.

      Its hard to get anything resembling the truth because gov wants a clean image and protests were happening just before Israel/USA attack which had direct goal of toppling gov with these numbers as justification.

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        Estimates of 30,000-36,000 are based on testimony of medical workers, eyewitnesses who photographed piled bodies, and best estimates of international aid workers.

        You are doing the work of the IRGC. They blacked out the internet for the entire country precisely to obscure what they were doing. Their goal was/is to control the narrative and ensure uncertainty. All this was months ahead of any major attacks by outside powers.

        Your instinct that it would be/is an unthinkable atrocity is correct. Your instinct that it’s impossible flies in the face of history.

        • The Khmer Rouge killed nearly 1.4 million in Cambodia in less than 2 years, primarily with guns (which doesn’t include perhaps a million more due to starvation, etc.)

        • 1.5 - 2 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust by bullets in Eastern Europe (not including 4 - 4.5 million more killed in death camps, etc.). Many of these were single incidents over days in which tens of thousands were killed, such as Babi Yar and Kamianets-Podilsky.

        • Over 500,000 Tutsis were killed in Rwanda, primarily by guns over about 100 days.

        Iran is a country of 90 million people. Evidence from multiple sources affirms the estimates of 30,000-36,000+ killed in January protests.

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          But you are comparing with events where they went door to door killing people. But its true that its a large population. Still 30000 deaths is huge. What would then injured be 300000? Its not one shot kill, unless you do summary executions. Is there any comparison to some other crackdown on protesters?

          I remain sceptical because there exists (or rather it existed before war) very big interest for numbers to be impressionable.

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      massacred tens of thousands of activists

      Trump literally admitted they had armed them.

      Was Iran supposed to let US proxies just prevent them from defending themselves?

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      Also a prime sponsor of terrorism all over the Middle East. Sure, the US shouldn’t be there and shouldn’t be acting like assholes, but you’re 100% correct. No good guys.

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        Who tried to steal who’s oil in the 50’s?

        Who tried and succeeded to overthrow a democratically elected government in Iran and instill the Shaw in the 50’s?

        Who traded arms for hostages in the late 1970’s and where did the money come from to buy said arms?

        Who is Oliver North and why is he a CNN analyst?

        Imagine if Iran did this to the USA?

        All the USA does is cause terror and pain throughout the world and history.

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          The US isn’t making Iran have the death penalty for adultery.

          The US isn’t enforcing Irans draconian moral laws and the US didn’t murder Jina Amini in a prison cell.

          The mullah regime manages to be terrible all without the US/Zionist interventions.

          The way to remove them is not a bombing campaign, but if they all died of turbo aids tonight I’d do a happy little dance.

          Everyone’s shit here and the primary victims are the Iranian people.

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        If they stayed out of the middle east and didn’t force Israel to exist you would see a lot less “terrorism” so don’t blame middle eastern countries because dumb colonizers(UK) and their colony(USA) exists. A lot of the current problems in the middle east stem from the colonizers being dumbasses for over 100 years.

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          This right here. Add to that the fact that many undocumented migrants from Central and South America are often escaping political environments that are the direct result of predatory and/or parasitic American policies.

          Intrusive American foreign policy is often the source of bad situations around the world.

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          Oh yeah Iran would definitely give up its influence over the neighbourhood if only Israel didn’t exist lol

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            Not what they said. this situation has been fabricated by the west. The players are all assholes, but they didn’t invent the game.