• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    When was Iran tolerable? They’re still as much of a fucked up theocracy with a terrible record on human rights as they’ve been since the revolution.

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      12 days ago

      I said tolerable to the media. Been barely discussed in UK media until Israel attacked them, now they’re scrambling to justify it based on how bad Iran is…

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        12 days ago

        I’m not in the UK, but I recall Iran being in the media a lot in China and the US. Back when Trump assassinated one of their generals during his first term, the recurring abductions and rapes of women and young girls by the morality police that sparked nationwide protests, the arms they are providing for Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, and now Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iranian infrastructure and citizens.

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          12 days ago

          What do you expect iran to do want the whole west is imposing severe sanctions harming regular citizens. Iran as no choice but to work with russia. Iran could have been an neutral country if americans, israelis and britosh didn’t support the shah coup

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            12 days ago

            I expect them to stop harming their own civilians, too.

            We don’t need to cheer on an oppressive, totalitarian regime just because they’re at odds with another oppressive, totalitarian regime.

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              12 days ago

              I am cheering iran right to self defence not the regime harming their own civilians.

              Do you condemn israel starting the war and killing civilians ?

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                12 days ago

                Yes I condemn Israel, this isn’t an either/or type of situation. Both countries are shitty.

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                  11 days ago

                  Ukraine is also pretty shitty, but no one seems to have any problem understanding why people would cheer them on when they get attacked.

                  Funny how liberals can only extend that privilege to white countries

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              11 days ago

              Funny, I’ve been saying this for the last three years and liberals have been telling me that that makes me a tankie Putin simp.

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      11 days ago

      And they’re less terrible than any country that is supporting Israel’s Holocaust in Gaza.