• illi@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    This would only make me doubt if I do in fact stand on the right side.

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    4 months ago

    Congratulations to a small percentage of US students. When Iran’s supreme leader backs you, it shouldn’t ring any alarm bells. You are definitely making wise choices.

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      4 months ago

      The president died. Iran’s president is the head of government and second-highest political position, while the supreme leader is the head of state and highest political position.

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        4 months ago

        Ali Khamenei

        If the U.S. and overall Western Powers minded it’s own fkin business…

        The 1953 Iranian coup d’état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d’état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953

        Isn’t that interesting? We fail to really investigate how something comes to fruition. But then again we rely on investigative journalists… who are owned by corporations who tell them what and how to report.

        Had the Western powers minded its business, Iran would have still been friendly and continued to incorporate Western values. But they learned their lesson, they swayed from the path and got burned. Not making that mistake again, eh?

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          Yeah.

          Mosaddegh was overthrown in 1953 because of US and UK, and about 25 years later, Iran became an Islamic theocracy, which has lasted for about 45 years and seems will continue into its 6th decade.

          Well done, America-haters.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    4 months ago

    Yes, when a dictator actively oppressing his people, particularly women, says you’re doing good, you should feel proud.

    Edit:

    Published on his official website on Thursday, the letter addresses students whose “awakened conscience has moved them to defend the oppressed women and children of Gaza.”

    Holy mother of all cognitive dissonances.

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      4 months ago

      Fun fact: awful people agreeing for bad reasons doesn’t make the cause itself bad. You’re falling for one of the oldest yellow journalism tricky in the book.

      This is the equivalent of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association publishing an excerpt from Mein Kampf extolling the virtues of vegetarianism.

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        Didn’t Nazi Germany ban vivisection?

        What do you think of George Galloway’s condemning Israel? He’s right, but he has a few flaws (though certainly not as bad as the Nazis—I was a little ticked at people citing him several hours ago, though).

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          Same deal, basically, though not QUITE as bad: afair Galloway is very right about some things for good reasons (Israel obviously being one of them) and very wrong about others and possibly corrupt to boot.

          His faults and bad ideas are irrelevant to whether or not genocide is bad, just like the theocratic despot in the article.

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      4 months ago

      By that logic, since Trump supports Israel and says that Israel should finish the job, should Israel now also be proud?

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          Absolutely! Just not agreeing with the logic that there’s any meaning behind some dipshit supporting the same thing you do. Although I admit that I chose a bad example.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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        Do you feel like there are only two choices? I support Israel striking back when Hamas started a war they had no chance of winning. Doesn’t mean I support how they’re doing it and I don’t think the crimes they’re committing currently are any good.

        So yes, they should feel “proud” a scumbag like Trump endorses them.

        In an ideal world both the students and Israel would say “wait, that piece of shit says we’re doing good, maybe we should take 5 to rethink what we’re doing”. But we don’t live in an ideal world.

        As a side note, I truly envy people who can view things so clearly so easily, like unequivocally supporting Palestine or Israel without seeing the very shitty things both are (or were recently) doing. While I envy such people, I definitely don’t want to be around them - people who have easy answers to complex issues are rarely correct.

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      He’s not saying that to try and make Palestine or himself look good, he’s saying that to try and make Israel look bad.

      That’s it.

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      he’s doing what all right wing populists are doing these days; latching onto a popular movement and using it to both improve his popularity and divide his enemies

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      As a Turk, let me just add:

      It’s very well known that the AA is basically just Tayyip’s propoganda machine. It’s a very hard bias towards whatever he’s looking to say, at that point in time, not necessarily right or left wing.