wonderingwanderer

Well you're not them. And I never claimed my opinion matters, noticed I haven't even expressed my personal opinion

This comment thread is literally on an article about people in Iran rallying to his call for a mass demonstration. Read the room.

Are you in Iran right now, participating in their protests? Cause if not, you have no right to tell them who they should or shouldn't follow. That's your own unexamined colonizer mindset showing.

“The lack of a viable alternative has undermined past protests in Iran,” wrote Nate Swanson of the Washington-based Atlantic Council, who studies Iran.

“There may be a thousand Iranian dissident activists who, given a chance, could emerge as respected statesmen, as labor leader Lech Wałęsa did in Poland at the end of the Cold War. But so far, the Iranian security apparatus has arrested, persecuted and exiled all of the country’s potential transformational leaders.”

Keep waiting for your perfect leader, but the Iranian people are moving on without you.

Is there any credible reason to believe the US had anything to do with toppling Assad?

Or do you simply not believe an Islamic rebel group would be capable of a successful lightning offensive otherwise? Cause that's pretty demeaning if so...

If there were an option who has "done leadership in Iran," that person would be part of the current regime. Any potential grassroots leaders have been exiled.

This rhetoric that "surely there's a better [hypothetical] option" is the sort of perfectionism and ideological purism that dooms so many movements. Keep waiting for a hypothetical "better option," you might as well be waiting for a messiah.

The practical reality is that the crown prince is a figurehead that the liberation movement can rally around, and indeed they are rallying to his call. That alone makes him the best available option, as the momentum being generated is what's critical. To say "wait, why don't we wait for someone better to come along" only helps the ayatollah.

Dumb fuck. World powers shouldn't appease the US either. These dictators feed on one another: putin, netanyahu, trump. Each one who gets away with it encourages the rest to do the same.

The only way out of this is to meet dictators with strength, to teach them they won't get away with it because there are powers in the world who won't let them.

You advocating for disarming Europe is basically saying "hand the world over to the dictators." And that's fucking stupid.

You're a fucking idiot if you think appeasement and concession will avoid WWIII. russia will invade Europe if Europe doesn't maintain their forces as a deterrent.

Letting russia have its way with Ukraine isn't being "anti-war," you dunce. It would be rewarding hostile powers for aggressive military invasions, incentivizing others to do the same.

But then again, you might be on the kremlin's payroll, so perhaps you already know that and that's your whole point for being here in the first place.

You're kinda snitching on yourself by framing "sending troops to Ukraine" as if it's a bad thing

I'm pretty sure he has. And he's doing it again now, but you're giving him shit for it. So according to your logic no one should ever call it out, because once it makes headlines then people like you will come along saying "hE sHoUlD hAvE aLrEaDy DoNe ThAt!" as if the previous times don't count for anything.

So might as well not make headlines, right?

The hitlerization of the United States Government accelerates...

But ask about universal healthcare and "there's no money for that"...

I didn't say you were

Because they think it would allow them to do the same...

...while they work into their seventies because a full retirement is out of reach for most of the working class...