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    15 hours ago

    Great news hopefully we see more strikes on the bloodthirsty jizzrael, Iran has the right to defend itself, the fucking rat netanyahoo fled to Greece to avoid retaliation coward zionazi cunt

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      16 hours ago

      I’ll deliver this reply in Choose Your Own Adventure Format:

      If you want to make a reference to Donald Trump being at his birthday parade and thus exposed, vulnerable and in the open and presently not looking up, turn to page 89.

      If you rather make a reference to how we should leave the Devil be because the Devil himself is more respectable and honorable than any of these monstrous despots who murder out of spite and wrap themselves in scripture, turn to page 322.

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    fucking trigger happy Netanyahu should be publicly dragged behind a chariot until he dies for his genocidal crimes and bringing the world to the brink of third world war.

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      Iran is not nearly as bad as Israel. A world where Iran loses and Israel loses would be a dramatic loss for the people of Iran, while if Israel loses and Iran maintains its sovereignty the people of Iran can chart their own destiny, rather than being dominated by the US and terrorized by Israel.

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        The people of Iran would be wise to take this opportunity to actually plot their destiny.

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          What would that look like? Trying to help Israel destroy Iran, allowing the US and Israel to sweep in and commit genocide against them like the US did with Iraq? The Iranian state is what currently stands between the people and utter devastation, even if that state is flawed, without it the people of Iran have no voice in their destiny.

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            It would look like no more Iranians being executed for not wearing a hijab, or being gay, or saying mean things about the ayatollah.

            But I guess their regime is absolutely necessary to stop the very long list of people that want to genocide Persian culture.

            Typical .ml authoritarian apologist.

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              We saw how it ended up in iraq. How many time you guy get fooled by the west propaganda?

              Iranians are smart enough to know the threat number one is israel then the rrgime

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              Iran is a flawed state, certainly, but if Israel succeeds then they will succeed in killing far more women and queer people than the Iranian state could ever hope to execute, along with cisgender folk, liberals, etc. This is pinkwashing. As a queer person myself, this type of rhetoric is just Imperialist apologia, the path to queer liberation of Iranians would be dramatically pushed backwards if Israel succeeds in destroying Iran.

              Further, yes, Iran is necessary to stop the genocide in Palestine at this moment. When Western countries are all condemning Iran and backing Israel, it is the Global South that backs Iran. Gazans are cheering, Yemeni people are watching the bombings of Tel Aviv on the big screen. Israel has been the single greatest obstacle in queer liberation in the Middle East as the fomenter of chaos, genocide, and destabilization.

              Why is it that queer liberation happens in some countries, and not others? When does it happen? Social progress is a product of economic development and liberation of the Working Class. Bombing Iran and creating a failed state would result in thousands of deaths of queer Iranians, children, and many more.

              Do some self-crit. You’re caping for Israel and advocating for the country doing the most to oppose genocide to collapse.

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        Yeah, when I said that I didn’t really adequately consider what would actually come of Iran being crippled. Civilian rule is not the likely outcome of Iran being defeated.

        And Iran isn’t as bad as Israel, I agree, but that’s a pretty low bar.

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          A low bar it may be, but as you said in the beginning, a toppled Iran would end up like a toppled Iraq - utterly devastated and all of the flaws that existed pre-Iraq War seem like beauty marks after the genocidal US invasion.

          People need to chart their own destiny, free from terrorization backed by the US Empire. Without that pressure, social movements in Iran have more room to breathe without fearing rocket-fire from Israel.

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        Watch out, the enlightened centrist has arrived!

        Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, well, they are both bad people. Let’s root for neither of them.

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          I get what you’re saying but you couldn’t have chosen a worse example… Like yeah absolutely fuck Churchill lol, he’s a huge part of the reason why we’re in this mess with Israel now

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            Still I would have rooted for Churchill when it comes to the conflict of Nazi Germany versus Britain because I am able to separate actions from blindly supporting everything.

            Iran too did absolutely horrible things in the past They sent a lot of children to die during their war with Iraq. The Mahsa Amani stuff everyone keeps bringing up is so lightweight but Western propagaganda is the dumbest stuff.

            However, currently Iran is aiding Palestine and fighting Israel and they are not sending children to die for it. So I support that action.

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            It’s still a good example because as bad as Churchill was he was better than Hitler.

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                I’m not denying Churchills crimes or painting him as good.

                How many would Hitler have murdered if he had similar control over the region? Just look at General plan Ost…

                There’s a reason the USSR tried to ally with Churchill against Hitler before hostilities even started.

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                  Sure, you have a point, just wanted to remind people that western European countries enacted many genocides to similar scale than Nazi Germany (or greater)

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        Most of the allies in world war 2 were horrible, repressive regimes. I would still support them.

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          That’s hardly a reasonable comparison though is it? The allies during WW2 were mostly functioning democracies. This conflict is a theocratic dictatorship which treats women as second class citizens and executes homosexuals vs a fascist regime which is currently engaged in a genocide. Both sides are fucking evil and to celebrate one over the other is ignorant.

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            Iran ranks 3rd in the world in numbers of engineers. 70% of them are women.
            ‘The second class citizens’ is exagerated, and often simply lies for propaganda purposes, like the Mahsa Amini case.
            The last execution of homosexuals was 20 years ago, and this was for rape, not bcs homosexuality.

            Yes many islamic countries have issues, and these are the typical hasbara machine’s ammo:
            “Let us genocide the Palestinians bcs they hate the gays!”

            Also your WW2 ‘democracies’ were - and still are in many cases - colonisers and looters of a large part of the world.

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              Do you have a particular source on modern LGBT realities in Iran you could recommend?

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                No sorry, LGBT is not particularly my interest.
                Maybe go on Lemmygrad and ask them directly.
                A few hours ago there were some discussing the attacks.

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            That’s hardly a reasonable comparison though is it?

            It’s entirely reasonable, you just have a white supremacist double standard.

            The allies during WW2 were mostly functioning democracies.

            The vast majority of the British Empire couldn’t vote and were considered lesser beings. The US had racial inequality inshrined into law and a habit of murdering minorities. The USSR I leave as an exercise to the reader.

            This conflict is a theocratic dictatorship

            I assume you mean Israel.

            which treats women as second class citizens

            Lol, the WW2 allies absolutely treated women as second class citizens, and criminalised homosexuality. Its also ghoulish the way westerners go "these countries treat minorities badly, so it’s ok to kill them (including the minorities). Ukraine isn’t perfect about minorities either, do you use that to say they deserve to get invaded? Oh wait, Ukraine in white.

            Both sides are fucking evil and to celebrate one over the other is ignorant.

            The British Empire was more evil than Iran by multiple orders of magnitude, yet for some reason (white supremacy) you don’t take this stance on WW2

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              Churchill voted greatest Briton of all times in 2016.
              A white supremacist who used the slogan ‘keep Britain white’.
              Called Jews ‘hebrew bloodsuckers’ and has murdered millions

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                And it’s the same people who voted him that who are now condemning Iran and defending Israel. Whatever ideology they claim to possess, the one they actually practice is white supremacy.