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Inside Iran’s protests: ‘Either we overthrow the regime, or we are destroyed. We have nothing left to lose.’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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I never thought I'd see Lemmy so desperately supporting a theocratic dictatorship that allows women to be stoned to death for minor "offenses" to their archaic code, but here we are.
For a lot of people on here, tankies especially, anyone that opposes the West is incapable of doing harm and must be defended at all costs. Human rights abuses are ignored so long as they can go "west bad". Like, yes, the West is indeed bad. That doesn't excuse the awful actions of the regimes that oppose them nor make it okay.
From where I'm sitting, pretty much everyone in power is fucked.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. A tale as old as humanity itself.
Similarly, money is not the root of evil. Desire to get it no matter what, is.
Power and authority are the big root problems
You're forgetting that nuance is forbidden. Anyone with a nuanced point of view is obviously a fascist sympathizer /s
Just kidding, fascists and tankies alike have no concept of nuance. They're cut from the same cloth...
Yeah, got a comment removed as „islamophobic“, calling the regime islamofascists, while at the same time rooting for the people of Iran. Some people cannot comprehend, that the enemy of my enemy is sometimes just another dictatorial regime full of assholes.
It's ok they are a minority, hence the downvotes, I just wish Lemmy would auto hide/fold comments below -3.
Tankies are just nationalists for other countries, it's why they're so boring and predictable in their retoric and have no problem dehumanizing anyone they disagree with, especially women. They claim to be "socialist" or "communist", but really they're just MLs who worship Stalin (& other dictators) not because of any progress they achieved in the countries they dictated (it was often minimal beyond an initial boom due to getting rid of the previous dictator) but because they said cool rhetoric against the West (often while collaborating with Western capitalists or even Nazis).
They're also loud and unpopular, the way we beat them on Lemmy is simply to grow the userbase of normal users to the point where the tankies posting their insane takes is just background noise.
When I first made this comment they were up voted and the majority in the thread. Glad to see it reverse
That's common - One of the tankies finds something to post and immediately calls over his mates to vote. it normalizes after a while in popular posts, but it works in less frequented spaces.
My browser (Summit) auto-folds comments below some limit. I don't know what that limit is, but it's probably modifiable in the settings somewhere.
There is a lot to unpack here honestly. Let me say first that I support the Iranian people in their quest for reforms. For me the second thing is history.
The US has had its hand in regime change in Iran for a long time going back to the 1950s. They helped install a dictator and remove an elected democratic leader. This arguably lead to the revolution.
So people who know history are a little bit bitter with the US and allies bombing the fuck out of Iran while calling their people to rise up.
For me it's not so much supporting the Iranian regime but seriously doubting whether any outside interference will actually help the people. Because when has it ever done so?