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[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Iranian government should be dismantled and all it's executors put on trial for their crimes against humanity and their citizens.

The same should happen to the current US administration.

The fact you're trying to legitimise the Iranian government in any way is baffling to me.

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 18 hours ago

lmao you still believe the 40000 dead bullshit dont ya?

Did you know they also raped babies on the 7th of october?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

the fact you think iran and the us are in any way comparable at all is baffling to me.

this is one non-comprehensive list of the sheer amount human suffering the empire has unleashed upon the planet. no country on the planet (including any of their enemies like iran russia china or north korea) have ever done a fraction of the evil, even if you assume absolute truth of all the propaganda about them.

and the amount of people the us empire have killed lies only on estimation, but it probably reaches the hundreds of millions easily. probably billions if you count the ones cast to poverty.

the us is currently funding or otherwise participating on all current genocides and wars going on atm. there is no "both sides" here.

[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Where did I compare Iran and US?

I agree with you about all the points you have raised about the US.

Do you not agree, that a regime that has killed 36 thousand of it's citizens this year alone, should be dismantled?

Edit: You edited your comment right as I was answering. I do not agree with your theory of the US funding/participating in all current genocides. I very much doubt they are involved in the genocide of the Uyghurs.

Edit 2: And your estimates on how many people the US is supposed to have killed lol,

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 18 hours ago

They have videos of you on jeffrey island dont they?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

you literally just did. and i sincerely doubt that number is true at all, it would be physically impossible to kill so much with so little evidence. for reference the same us/israeli media machine said 20k died in gaza lol.

just some propaganda to justify a completely senseless war for people like you.

nobody would have to die if the us didn't feel the need to try to coup other people's country.

[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

And please show me in my replies text where I compared the US and Iran. I made two separate statements.

[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

So wikipedia is good enough for the massacres the US perpetrated but not enough for the ones from Iran?

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works -1 points 18 hours ago

Wikipedia only called palestine a genocide until a year in, asshole

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

wikipedia articles are good for reference, not absolute truth. your link literally references the new york times as a source for the 30k figure, which is preposterous at best. it's literally the us itself claiming it.

now take a good look at the scale of both articles linked in this discussion. this number would be closer to zero if not for the us attempt to meddle.

this is not a both sided issue, and iran is not as deserving of anything as the global murderous empire. conservatives are so hard to argue with.

[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

LOL being called an imperial pig for pointing out that the Iranian theocratic Dictatorship aren't good guys is wild. You tankies are real special...

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

LOL at comparing the global fascist empire, raining death upon the world to a smallish theocracy in the middle east that mostly keeps to themselves.

we will support anti-imperialism over letting nazis divide and conquer us.

you fascists and fascist leaning libs aren't actually that special though...

[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Repeating the same shit doesn't make it more true. Where did I compare them? Quote me

You're more of a fascist than I am if you think a regime that suppresses the rights of women is good.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

no it doesn't. what makes this true is that it is true.

not that i didn't try to explain, but if you refuse to accept this basic fact, i get why you simply won't get it. maybe you are a sheltered westerner, that'd make sense.

but hey, i can ask you to quote me where did i told you a theocracy is good, so we can play your game of no u-ing eachother.

or maybe i shouldn't bother and call this one a day. yeah i think that's what's gonna be, bye.

[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago

Nope still doesn't make it true. You know it's all in your head, right?

I never compared the US and Iran.

I never said Iran has done worse than what the US has done.

I never said I think this war is justified. (It isn't)

I have not argued for any of these things, yet you hallucinated these arguments in your head.

I simply said that the Iranian Regime are not good guys and for some reason this triggers you, which is why I guessed that you think they are good. But if you truly don't:

Do you agree that the current Iranian regime is a bad government that should eventually be put to trial for what it has done to it's own people?