Iran supports the resistance behind the scenes not in front of it like Yemen.
That stopped being true years ago. They’ve fully retreated from the regional stage.
they are already doing a million times more than every other country worldwide
They’re unable to keep the water flowing and the lights on, because they keep trying to make deals with Western imperialists and getting played
Iran is currently the only major party fighting Israel
No, they aren’t. They’re rolling over for Israel time and time again.
They withdraw support from Hezbollah, from the Houthis in Yemen, and from the Taliban in Afghanistan for a few temporary sanctions suspensions. They actively collaborate with Israel’s friends in Russia and Saudi Arabia. They collaborated with the fucking Americans during the initial Iraq War. They crack down on their own domestic civilians when those populations want more aggressive Palestinian support. They’ve been “six months from producing a nuclear weapon” for thirty fucking years.
Yemen is still receiving Iranian weapons
The only thing they know how to do to Israel is to fire Warning Shots. Over and over and over again. Even as Israelis butcher their people at home and abroad.
They aren’t fighting them in any material sense.
left-of-centre british reporting
Insane that people believe this even exists
The Guardian is TERF central
How, exactly, will bombing Iranian cities help their liberation?
Same way that kidnapping Maduro liberates Venezuela. And embargoing gasoline liberates Cuba. And sending ground troops into Denmark liberates Greenland.
The Iranian people, not just the current regime, are supportive of Palestine, and Israel and the US absolutely cannot accept that.
Under Shah Reza Pahlavi, they will crush Hamas and Hezbollah, defeat ISIS, and end Woke Gay Iranian Antifa once and for all.
Iran literally sentencing kids to death
This isn’t novel to Iran. The US was sentencing minors to execution until as recently as 2005, when the SCOTUS struck down junivenille executions in Roper v. Simmons.
And that was under a relatively liberal majority. No way Roper would have gone 5-4 under a Roberts court.
Yawn more Western propaganda to justify war against Iran.
I mean, it can be both. The Iranian government has been an oppressive theocratic reactionary force practically since day one of the revolution. They rejected socialist reforms and partnered with Ronald fucking Reagan to start a turf war with Iraq using chemical weapons. They’ve flubbed any effective containment of Israel, failed to integrate their economy with Pakistan or Turkiye or Afghanistan, gave up backing Yemen, and never finished their nuclear deterrent.
The current crisis they’re in wasn’t unforeseeable. But when even Ahmadinejad is too far left for your Guardian Council, it locks you into a dark future.
Allegedly! Nothing has been proven!
Crazy it took them this long
Likely because people over the age of retirement do most of the voting.
But past that, its because our machinery of politics is too sclerotic to implement any kind of reforms that might inconvenience anyone in charge. Literally who would author the legislation? Who would vote for it? Who would sign it?
FFS, we’ve had both parties talking about Term Limits for 80 years running, with not terribly much to show for it. Only 17 states establish term limits for their state legislatures.
While the idea has some broad popular appeal, it rarely impacts anyone’s partisan voting pattern. If anything, the age of a candidate tends to improve their odds of winning election. Voters reflexively don’t trust people younger than them as representatives.. So campaigning as a young person promising to exclude older candidates can be a tough sell.
Social media absolutely removes the inhibitions of just about all kinds of assholes, builds pat-each-other-on-the-back support groups for them by putting them together with like minded assholes and then algorithmically shovels all that shit on everybody else because anything that elicits strong emotions means more clicks and anger from being offended is one such emotion.
Sorry. A bronze age manuscript says so. No arguing with that.
Zero planning for repercussions
You’re viewing the backlash as a bug rather than a feature. Vance will be back on TV in a week, arguing the US needs to intervene directly.
The old Peter Thiel Special
Wonder how many coked up rapists are involved in this story.
Excited to hear Mike Huckabee’s other theories on which ethnic groups enjoy sovereignty over which geographic regions
All of these facts are anti-Semitic
Bold and controversial
Sensational claims on a hot topic are always better fact-checked, regardless of what they support.
Better for whom?
Listen, we’re at war with an existential foreign evil. And I believe anything negative we can say about that foreign power furthers the war effort. Therefore, we MUST believe it, whether or not it is true.
Trump eats an infant every morning to deal with impotency.
You joke, but we did this one already, back in 2016. “Torturing children to eat them for their magic youth chemicals” was a popular mythology for the Alex Jones crowd.
And we believed it, God damnit, because we needed to beat the Chinese Communist plant Hillary Clinton.
Or, a tankie version: Xi Jinping personally installed 150GW of solar power yesterday as he ruled closing of coal plants across the country.
Obviously, solar power is itself a hoax perpetrated by anti-American climate activists. So it’s exactly the kind of lie a Chinese Communist Tankie would spread.
I believe Xi Jinping’s fake degenerate solar panels are undermining Western Civilization. If he’s installing them, he must be stopped at all costs.
If you see a solar panel, it is your duty to smash it. Fuck the CCP!
And now it’s all funneled through Palantir and the various other tentacles of the private sector.
The CIA/NSA are just retail customers of privatized surveillance.
I mean, you can talk about legality and find all sorts of technical restrictions in code.
But who believes any of this shit was enforced?
The closest thing we’ve had to a government action against US propaganda was Biden’s War On TikTok. And that was for the unspeakable crime of mentioning the Gaza Genocide too many times.
shrug Lemmy’s a tough crowd. But tough crowds make hard posters.