• Velma@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    Tbf the guy was also involved in murdering police officers and was helping Israel and the US.

    Iran isn’t great and I’m against the death penalty, but they may have had their reasons here.

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        That is the issue. Israel admitted to have agents on the ground. Now it is so easy for the regime to claim everybody could be an agent

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      Murdering the ayatollah’s cops isn’t a bad thing. Totalitarian regimes and the people who uphold those regimes are fair game imo. Fuck the us and isreal but if was fighting for freedom I’d take any help I could get.

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        So to fight a brutal regime you are going to support a state who want to replicate the gaza genocide in Iran? So dumb

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              I’ll answer it in terms of the people of Rojava fighting ISIS. They accepted American support even though they are against governments. They fought with air support against an evil totalitarian system and totally destroyed that system. Is the US a good actor? No. But if I was in the YPG I’d want that air support. And I’ve read many accounts of YPG and YPJ soldiers who state that.

              I don’t know anything about Iranians because it is locked down there. But I assume the people fighting that government are making similar calculations.

              It is so easy for a person living a comfortable western life to judge the people fighting these wars for freedom. I’m not going to sit in judgement because they weren’t pure enough and I greatly dislike those who do.

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                The usa did not invoke genocidal statements unlike Israel during the Iraq war. So answer the question how genociding Iran will save Iranians?

                I am pretty sure the parent of those schools girls murdered by the usa in the first day are saying thank you the usa, yeah it terrible that our kids dies but it is a risk we chose to take

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                  I’m pretty sure most of the Iranians who guardedly mentally accepted an apparent offer of support from the USA didn’t think they were so massively incompetent or vicious.

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                    Israel want a genocide in Iran. How does a genocide save Iranians? Multiple time the usa ask Iranians to rise up yet the only people showing in the street is the pro regime not the anti regime because most iranians now that an genocidal war is worse than an oppressive regime .

                    I am pretty sure the parent of those schools girls murdered by the usa in the first day are saying thank you the usa, yeah it terrible that our kids dies but it is a risk we chose to take

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        7 days ago

        Yeah and the US has murdered a lot of people in ICE detention.

        I’d be wary of those numbers. Israel and the US have a vested interest in drumming up as much support as possible for their war against Iran.

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          agreed. when folks come with “yeah but iran murders protestors” and the response is “so does the US” and people dismiss that because “iran murdered thousands…” I like to ask people for the top number they are ok with. Is 2 ok? But 1000 bad? Ok so what about 20? (hinting along that the number should be zero.)

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            They could have murdered 90% of their population and they still wouldn’t deserved to be bombed by a bunch of pedophiles and their stupid apologists

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            Ok so your counter argument to “but they killed 20k protestors” is literally “would it really be better if they only killed 2?”

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              no. its not an argument it is a question to the interlocutor; if they are mad at iran but not mad at the US they clearly have a number that is ok.

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                “If they are mad at Iran and not mad at the US…” It’s because they’re racist. It’s not a numbers thing. US sanctions kill 500 thousand people every year. The death and destruction that the US has brought upon the world is astronomical, but because of US exceptionalism, a lot of people refuse to see it, especially in the West.

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          Child killer iran specifically targets young people many times even blinding them by using buck shots they did it in 2009, they did it in 2015-2017 and now they did it again from 2022 to present

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      Of course they had their reasons, he was protesting their tyrannical dictatorship and power. It’s not a just reason, but it’s a reason.

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            I’m not condoning Iran’s actions here. Let’s not sit around and help manufacture consent for this war either.

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              Your response was, “but Israel would do it too.” That’s irrelevant to the conversation about the Iranian government killing protesters.

              You can condemn the Iranian government for doing bad things and also be against the Israel and US invasion. They’re not mutually exclusive. Just like you can condemn the actions of the state of Israel without being antisemitic.