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I agree, but you should also pay for killing women for not wearing hijab.
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The Conjunction Constable strikes again
There is already sanctions on Iran related to human right abuses by countries backing a genocidal state with weapons and diplomatic protection. Israel and the usa are the countries that are not getting punished
This doesn't have to be an either/or situation.
I’m against that too, but not wearing hijab is not a capital offense in Iran.
The famous case of Masa Amini was a case of resisting arrest gone wrong and she died from police brutality. Saying she was killed for not wearing hijab is like saying Eric Garner was killed for not paying taxes; it’s an incomplete story.
People hate whataboutism until it’s used to cast shade on the enemies of America’s oligarchs.
I don’t get how people can hate billionaires, then spout rhetoric that directly helps their genocidal programs. Iran is the lesser evil in this fight, and in fact one of the only countries standing up to the world’s biggest threat- American/western imperialism. You don’t have to like them, but you also don’t have to carry water for the oppressors.
You're allowed to not like both of them
If every time Iran calls out the warcrimes and genocide of the US, you answer with a criticism of Iran, all you are doing is saying that the US is right to do warcrimes. That it’s justified because Iran mistreats some of its citizens.
Iran is literally fighting to stop its schoolgirls from being bombed, and you’re out here saying, “Maybe if you hadn’t forced the little girls to wear burkas they’d still be alive.”
Again, you don’t have to like them, but maybe just shut up about it for a second so we can all focus on the bigger issue. It’s called critical support.
The comment said he agreed with the post.
The western leaders should be tried for crimes against humanity at the Hague. Don't you think indiscriminate bombing, genocide, and child sex trafficking are a bigger problem?
Two things can be true. No need to "whatabout" these topics
Maybe there's more than one problem, and none of the governments involved in this are the good guys.
Yes, America and Israel are responsible for the current clusterfuck, but Iran's government is still pretty fucking evil.
Right, and America and Israel are literally more evil. Which governments do you have the most power to change? Do you get a vote in Iran?
Indeed. But you can't demonise the other side for doing them while you paddle in the same pool
There is a difrence between having a bad or wrong enforced law vs destroying a random school.
It wasn't random. It was a double-tap strike in a first strike package (generally the most well researched targets) that fucking Google maps knew was a girls school for years.
It was either a deliberate terror strike that intentionally killed a hundred and seventy or so girls between the ages of 9-12 or it was a level of incompetence that is indistinguishable from intentionality and should be treated as such.
Don't justify this action even the slightest by trying to go 'Whoops, teehee, just an accident'
You're right!
From what I had heard of it, it was likely an AI produced target list with a human in the loop. But the problem with those is that a human in the loop often turns into a rubber stamp, with the human taking the blame for the AI's mistakes.
So in that sense, you may be right. That is a problem that is pretty widely understood. They should have known that and taken more care. Trump and his "Department of War" has brought an even more cavalier attitude toward civilian casualties, so that may be seen as acceptable for "efficiency".
Wonder what they have to say about the 100 other schools Israel and America bombed in the meantime..
What? There's no both sides to this lol. One side is being attacked and one side is defending.
Literally replying to your words
This absolves the USA of responsibility for waging illegal imperial war for profit and committing war crimes and funding and arming zionist genocide in Palestine.
I agree the whataboutism is lame as fuck, but idk about "absolves the USA of responsibility". The US didn't really even pretend this was about "bringing democracy" or whatever. The Trump admin waffled between "Israel made us do it :(" and "WOOWW LOOK AT ALL THIS OIL"
The US-Israeli propaganda machine is totally broken since Gaza. They knew there was no point in even trying to play a humanitarian angle.
Among other crimes against humanity, yes. But when focusing on the US, also for all the crimes against humanity and all the other war crimes.
Yup. Not a bad message, but a terrible messenger. His father is responsible for the massacre of thousands of protestors, and he was by all accounts part of that.
We literally admitted to arming those protesters. At that point, they're not protesters but CIA lapdogs trying to turn Iran into another Libya.
People are judged by their own actions not the action of their parents. Not to imply that he is not authoritarian himself