keir starmer ruling under the current day judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The state of Reform UK and it’s enormous polling advantage suggest we might get exactly that

Well, he’s the wrong kind of Muslim. If he was a Saudi or a Jordanian or one of Israel’s pet Muslims in Ra’am, all these critiques would vanish.

I have a friend in Iran, his cousin died in the protests

Channel 14’s Tamir Morag says arms from ‘foreign actors’ let protesters kill hundreds of officers; Iranian FM: ‘Trump should now know exactly where to go to stop killings’

I actually have a friend from elementary school who was killed by an Iraqi IED. Really sad, but also… he should have been going to college, not getting in shootouts with ex-Ba’athist insurgents on the other side of the planet.

Iran keeps very good track of these. However, they try their best to hide how many were killed

Where did you get this information?

It’s definitely losing it’s grip. But genuinely frightening to see how many people will still fall back on “Yeah, but I’m glad they’re killing the correct kind of foreigners this time”. As soon as Democrats retake the White House, your head is going to spin to see how many people enthusiastically support more bombings.

Neoliberalism at its peak

let’s not forget all of their own people they killed

It was crazy to hear US news reporting “Iran has killed 30k, 50k, 90k of their own people!!” based on unnamed sources and Facebook memes. Meanwhile, the journalists on the ground in Gaza reporting on the genocide were systematically assassinated by the Israeli government, while hospitals were obliterated, and communications severed. And the US national media response became “information is unreliable so we’re just not going to say a number anymore”.

I wonder how many Iranians killed during the current US/Israel air raids and infrastructure annihilation will be retroactively counted as “The Iranians killed themselves”, once American journalists finally make their way back into the country.

The messenger is awful

I’ll take ten Mojtaba Khameneis over one Pete Hegseth. Hell, I’ll take a Khamenei over Keir Starmer, at this point.

Of course, he’s little more than a figurehead under the current Iranian government, given that their Parliament can’t safely convene and their military is fully operating via the Mosaic Strategy of decentralized retaliation against ongoing US/Israeli bombardment. I’m not sure why people have decided he’s a bad leader, given that he hasn’t made any meaningful leadership decisions since taking office.

But I guess he’s Muslim and unseasonably tan, so that’s enough to make him a bad guy.

Plenty of white nationalists among the domestic elite. It’s practically a prerequisite to join certain social clubs and fraternities.

But white supremacy isn’t just a belief, it’s a goal. Plenty of very smart, savvy, and committed individuals are working overtime to jam their collective boots on our necks.

You joke, but this is 100% in the Old Testament.

It’s propaganda poisoning all the way down.

The Russians, the Americans, and the Brits are all choking on their version of Nationalist Exceptionalism as all three countries nosedive.

When you’ve got a guy named “Calvinball Champ” in your mod crew, I can’t even tell if you’re serious.

The 77-year-old marine ecologist was severely injured by an Israeli air strike on her home on June 4, and has since died from her wounds.

Crazy to read this and then get mad at the guy who wrote the headline.

they say differently in private when they discuss these issues and then parrot talking points in public practice

The congressperson is the ultimate Improv Comedian. They’re always out doing the Yes-And for their audience. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve spoken with a Congressman who nods and agrees with me on everything, then turns to someone who is my polar opposite and nods and agrees with them, too.

They know that what they’re doing is wrong

You think a bunch of white nationalists and imperial hawks think bombing Iran was a mistake? Dems and GOPers alike have been chaffing at the bit to bomb Iran since the Carter administration. Trump is delivering them their hearts’ deepest desire. The only thing Congress wanted more than War with Iran are War with Cuba and War with China. That’s been the joke of the last four months. It’s Congresscritters running around insisting “Trump is fighting the war WRONG!” then losing their shit at the first wiff of surrender.

If anything, these people think we didn’t go hard enough. They’re absolutely turgid at the thought of the ceasefire breaking, because it gives them an opportunity to go on the Sunday Morning shows and scream “Death to Iran! They broke the ceasefire and must be obliterated!”

Coward GOP

They’re not cowards. They got elected to inflate the Pentagon budget. It’s what they’re in Congress to do.

Liberals: “The Iran war is going to cost us an additional $300B?!”

Hegseth: “Haha, no.”

A secure soviet border is behind a line of snowmen in SS uniforms.

Are you referring to the satellite buffer zone? Or is this a joke about Nazis in winter?

Those people doing all that you talk about are openly Rightwing parties, not “liberals”

The German Greens and the Renaissance party are center-left and center (relatively speaking for their respective countries). They are explicitly liberal. The same can be said of the the various Latin American and and East Asian parties. Very regularly right in the center of their national overton windows and openly in favor of collaborating with neighboring liberal governments on their policies.

The point I was making wasn’t that the West isn’t rife with Racism, it’s that the “moderate”/mainstream Left parties packaging reductive identitarian views of human beings and selling as “positive” some forms of Discrimination along those lines (not just the Racist lines, but all kinds of “identities”) isn’t anywhere as common in the rest of the West

The ethnic lines vary. But the general disdain for immigrants, foreign religions, and foreign languages persist.