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They are a horrendous society and government, but a clock with dead batteries is still right twice a day.
To judge an entire society as "horrendous" just isn't acceptable. That is where the liberals intersect with the fascists. It's a society, people are born, grow up, live, learn, love, play, fall in love, grow, marry, make babies and raise them, grow old. 92 Million people. Their society has problems.
Who are you to judge them as horrendous? Who are you to aid and give cause to genocidal invaders to destroy their country, their livelihoods, their progress? To bomb them back in time? They were making progress in many areas.
It's not just Trump who is responsible, it's everyone who is pushing these overly broad talking points.
Do you think meddling and interfering through NGOs has positive effects on their "freedoms"? Or negative effects? Just leave them alone, they can sort it out themselves.
All of this is imperialism because there are many countries like Saudi Arabia or Pakistan who is a geopolitical allies. We all need to demand less interference in other countries from our own governments and our allies.
The horrendous society is the US who elects rapists, and thrives on sucking other countries blood by using wars, extortion and sanctions.
Iran is a developing country, it has its problems but at least it's not evil because fuck yeah, unlike the western countries especially the US.
Genocide, child mass murder, pedophilia, rape - all de facto legal if done by the "right" people.
This is both the US and Israel.
I don't think you have a clue what goes on in Iran if you think their regime isn't evil
I dont think you have a clue back at you. Epstein's industrial scale pedophilia with the elite, none of our leaders representing us at all, and open sponsoring of genocide by both political parties with US taxpayer dollars are all horrifically evil.
Yeah come back to me when the US start murdering all internal opposition, torturing their leaders for years until they spontaneously confess their crimes against god on tv, openly encourages child rape, ...
There's a lot to be said about the US but like I said elsewhere: if you're worried about the things you're calling out then the Iranian regime is like the twice-evolved version of that shit
I guess its fair to say we should not measure ourselves by comparison-- we should measure ourselves against a standard of human dignity and some minimal baseline of human rights for all. And from there we'd have the standing to criticize others. Right now we (the US) doesnt have that so we should act with more humility until we do.
If you feel you need to better yourself before you speak on these matters, I'm sure you'll have your reasons. But know that every voice helps if we are to make this world a better place
Using your voice to criticize to justify war doesn't make the world a better place.
War ends up causing more oppression to minority and vulnerable groups than just about the absolute worst circumstances. Samantha powers doctrine, which you are espousing, made the world a much much worse place for the people she claimed to want too help. You're doing the same.
You NOT lending your voice to these justifications of war crimes would make the world a better place.
If you feel like you can't ever speak out about anything outside your own country, I don't think that helps. It's good to be as critical towards your own country, of course, but I don't think that should be an excuse not to lend your mind and voice to all the wrongs going on elsewhere
Fine. Stop lending your voice to justifying war. It is evil, and won't accomplish what you want. If you find your message being used to justify war, stop immediately.
To be clear, while this SHOULD be a moral argument, it isn't. This, at this point, is a pure effectiveness argument. The second your voice is being used to justify war, you will not accomplish what you hope.
Who's do you think is using me calling out injustice to justify war?
What do you mean start? They already finished that, now you think democrats and republicans are opposed to each other. Fred Hampton, Kent state, MOVE, McCarthyism, Blair Mountain - the US already killed it's internal opposition, and now has the leadership that results from that.
Lol. The fact you need to think of these 50+ year old cases kinda illustrates my point. For Iranians, that's like Tuesday. Before breakfast
I don't think you understand - there aren't contemporary cases because theres no one left resisting. They killed all the actual opposition, and now Americans think protesting means holding a "no kings" party in the park and not disrupting anything or making any real demands. Social democrats are being held up as socialists because they fund enough community programs to keep capitalism limping along. The American government is more than happy to kill it's internal opposition, but that requires internal opposition to kill.
They firebombed a residential square block in Philadelphia like what are you talking about?
Lol a square block in Philadelphia
Let me know when the militias start visiting every workplace rounding up union members
Have you not heard of ice?? They locked up a nun for nine days because she was visiting undocumented people to pray with them.
If you think locking up a nun compares to what happens in Iran, knowing what goes on there you do not
I guess as long as the american government kill foreigners it is not s big deal. Only a big deal if you kill your own internal opposition
Are they more evil than a genocidal fascist pedophile oligarchy?
If those are the things you're worried about then yes, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see Iran manage to one-up the US on all of these points
Show us your work, then, lmao.
You wont even talk about them, they are just "those things you’re worried about". Like massive genocide and rape is just a little issue. You're a real piece of.. work.
Yeah here's a little insight on how the Iranian regime thinks about child rape
https://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Thighing
And you just marry them in the states
Also what a fucking joke of a source, lmao. Are you a 12 year old who just figured out about atheism?
Look up the Epstein files and get back to us. Your president was mentioned over a million times while his justice department only released 50% of the files.
Yeah if you think Khomeini himself is "a joke of a source" it just seems like you want to brush this whole thing off rather easily
I'm sure it's comforting for all those girls raped under his blessing that you feel their rapes are eclipsed by Epstein and Trump
No I was talking about that hilarious website. Child marriage is allowed in 33 states in your country, and your leaders are global pedophile child sex traffickers. Now your country is bombing the other country in order to further the genocidal agenda of Israel.
I'm confident that when those Iranian children are clenching their sheets, tears running down their face while their 'husbands' are pounding away under the Iranian flag and with Khomeini's smiling picture on the wall, what they are really crying about are those 33 states and the many victims of Epstein & co
Right, and your governments solution is to murder them lol. You won't win this one.
My government?
I figured by the stupidity and bloodthirst in your comments, you were American.
Bloodthirst?
Bloodthirst
Was I correct?
Yes, they support terrorists like hamas and hezbollah, who launch their rockets from civil areas so they then receive bombs there, and innocent civilians die to be martyred for their stupid causes.
you dont even know what the "stupid" causes are do you.
Lmao Hezbollah and Hamas are both resistance groups to Israel's literal genocide supplied by American weapons, money, and political cover. You're a real sick removed if you think that supporting these groups is more evil than a LITERAL genocidal fascist pedophile oligarchy.
Get some help.
You the type of scum who would talk about how Nat Turner was a terrorist
I'm actually an Iranian you dimwit.
Lol
Yeah if you're in line with the regime, I'm sure it all sounds fantastic
I don't care about your opinion, neither does my nation, whether I'm in line with the regime or not, also does not concern you, nor has any relevance to what I say. The US is the most evil imperialist force of all time, I've seen their bombs hit my city. We will never forget.
If it does not have any relevance to what you say, why did you feel the need to point it out?
Bruh what. You tried to frame the whole thing as a gotcha "you in line with the regime", I said it doesn't concern you as an outsider, whether I'm pro regime or anti regime, because fuck imperialism.
Yeah 'bruh'. If you honestly believe the Iranian regime should be excused for their all crimes because "they're a developing country", you don't think that's relevant?
If you were born in the US with that mindset you'd probably be right there in that cockpit throwing those bombs on 'the outsiders'.
And you obviously only “know” what western media tells you.
On the contrary. The Iranian regime is quite open on their evil shit tbh. They believe it's their ticket to Heaven
Sure although the Israelis are significantly worse. Israel is actively wiping out entire ethnicities based on racist supremacy, lies, rape and murder, to steal land. Israel also threatens unrelated countries with their "samson option" nuclear doctrine. Iran doesnt even come close to that level of evil. Not even in the same league.