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It's so strange. There is a real place on Earth which is much more brutal and oppressive than the wildest fantasy that Margaret Atwood could come up with. A pla

It's so strange. There is a real place on Earth which is much more brutal and oppressive than the wildest fantasy that Margaret Atwood could come up with. A place that rapes virgins before executing them to prevent them from entering heaven, a place that uses sexual violence and mutilation to control women, but if anyone mentions this place or the atrocities occurring there, then a certain element in the west gets incredibly upset and tries to divert attention away from it back to some US domestic local news interest stories. Almost like they are jealous or something. Someone told me with a straight face once that we will one day come to see The Handmaid's Tale as a documentary and not just a novel. A statement that one can only make with a straight face if one is incredibly ignorant of the world. I'm sure these US domestic pet peeves will exist even if some attention is given to the mass atrocities occurring in Iran. Not every local interest story in the US has to become international news. We really don't care.

metalman 9mo ago
then lets talk about Palestine, and the people commiting a genocide there, planning to "liberate" Iran useing the same methods many of the people protesting the exectution of Renee Good, are carrying Palastinian, and Irainian flags, as they know the same people are behind ALL of our troubles.
- flanked-evergl 9mo ago
  Whatever is happening in Palestine will still keep happening even if someone once gives some attention to the atrocities in Iran. I promise you. I also don't know who Renee Good is, and I don't care. Domestic US politics is not really my concern. 1,000 of people being executed because they don't like their theocratic overlords is actual international news.
  - inglor_cz 9mo ago
    From what I gathered, the Palestinians support the ayatollahs because Iran is the only country/organization that still backs their militants unconditionally. Which is also a major source of anger in Iran proper. Not because of Palestine directly, but because the economy is terrible and the regime will still invest into its geopolitical games instead of domestic prosperity. As of today, there is simply no exchange rate for Iranian rial to euro. The currency has entered some sort of black hole.
    - flanked-evergl 9mo ago
      I don't think most Persians support Hamas, I would be really surprised if even half of the Persians in Iran support Hamas. I would guess they just don't care about some terror proxy of the regime that is oppressing them. But sure, Islamo-fascist regimes and Islamo-fascist terrorists are natural allies.
  - metalman 9mo ago
    and what of the more than 1000 people killed in Iran during the last zionist/emerican bombing run? what is happening now is the work up to another bombing run, but only after they get the "news" out about what to buy, and what to short
    - flanked-evergl 9mo ago
      The amount of whataboutism to excuse paying no attention to Iran is very telling. Israel's 12-day war resulted in casualties in Iran, so therefore, we should all ignore Iran murdering 1,000s of their own citizens. It really says a lot about the narratives.
- inglor_cz 9mo ago
  So your mission really seems to be to distract from the Iranian situation by hijacking the conversation to different topics immediately when it started.
- jalapenos 9mo ago
  Who's saying both aren't crap? I reckon Netanyahu and the Ayatollah would've been good friends in another life.
  - spwa4 9mo ago
    It baffles me every time people put this opinion forward. For me, every time I see allies of the Kremlin (ayatollahs, palestinians), and allies of the US (ie. Israel), I assume they won't get along. Can't remember the last time that was wrong.
  - inglor_cz 9mo ago
    One quite obvious difference between those two is that the Ayatollah seems to be fine with gunning down his own citizens.
- spwa4 9mo ago
  This is, of course, exactly what's being talked about. The Kremlin, through the KGB, and the "socialist international" brought the Iranian mullahs to power and created the Palestinian movement. Both with the same purpose. In case people don't realize the link between the two. Both refer to the US (and Europe for that matter) as "the big satan" (meaning more important an enemy than Israel), showcasing their primary objective is to destroy US and more generally western influence. And actions against Israel are in service of that goal. Both Palestinians and Iranians are, to put it mildly, not shy about attacking and displacing population groups, including their own, and Palestinians aren't shy about using genocide to achieve it. Both have shown this extensively. The objective of these organizations is not better lives for Palestinians, Iranians, muslims or whoever. It's to get the US out of the middle east, and ideally do to the US what the US did to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in WW2: starve the US of oil and with that energy. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106419296113226300 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106419296113226300

metalman 9mo ago

then lets talk about Palestine, and the people commiting a genocide there, planning to "liberate" Iran useing the same methods many of the people protesting the exectution of Renee Good, are carrying Palastinian, and Irainian flags, as they know the same people are behind ALL of our troubles.

flanked-evergl 9mo ago
Whatever is happening in Palestine will still keep happening even if someone once gives some attention to the atrocities in Iran. I promise you. I also don't know who Renee Good is, and I don't care. Domestic US politics is not really my concern. 1,000 of people being executed because they don't like their theocratic overlords is actual international news.
- inglor_cz 9mo ago
  From what I gathered, the Palestinians support the ayatollahs because Iran is the only country/organization that still backs their militants unconditionally. Which is also a major source of anger in Iran proper. Not because of Palestine directly, but because the economy is terrible and the regime will still invest into its geopolitical games instead of domestic prosperity. As of today, there is simply no exchange rate for Iranian rial to euro. The currency has entered some sort of black hole.
  - flanked-evergl 9mo ago
    I don't think most Persians support Hamas, I would be really surprised if even half of the Persians in Iran support Hamas. I would guess they just don't care about some terror proxy of the regime that is oppressing them. But sure, Islamo-fascist regimes and Islamo-fascist terrorists are natural allies.
- metalman 9mo ago
  and what of the more than 1000 people killed in Iran during the last zionist/emerican bombing run? what is happening now is the work up to another bombing run, but only after they get the "news" out about what to buy, and what to short
  - flanked-evergl 9mo ago
    The amount of whataboutism to excuse paying no attention to Iran is very telling. Israel's 12-day war resulted in casualties in Iran, so therefore, we should all ignore Iran murdering 1,000s of their own citizens. It really says a lot about the narratives.
inglor_cz 9mo ago
So your mission really seems to be to distract from the Iranian situation by hijacking the conversation to different topics immediately when it started.
jalapenos 9mo ago
Who's saying both aren't crap? I reckon Netanyahu and the Ayatollah would've been good friends in another life.
- spwa4 9mo ago
  It baffles me every time people put this opinion forward. For me, every time I see allies of the Kremlin (ayatollahs, palestinians), and allies of the US (ie. Israel), I assume they won't get along. Can't remember the last time that was wrong.
- inglor_cz 9mo ago
  One quite obvious difference between those two is that the Ayatollah seems to be fine with gunning down his own citizens.
spwa4 9mo ago
This is, of course, exactly what's being talked about. The Kremlin, through the KGB, and the "socialist international" brought the Iranian mullahs to power and created the Palestinian movement. Both with the same purpose. In case people don't realize the link between the two. Both refer to the US (and Europe for that matter) as "the big satan" (meaning more important an enemy than Israel), showcasing their primary objective is to destroy US and more generally western influence. And actions against Israel are in service of that goal. Both Palestinians and Iranians are, to put it mildly, not shy about attacking and displacing population groups, including their own, and Palestinians aren't shy about using genocide to achieve it. Both have shown this extensively. The objective of these organizations is not better lives for Palestinians, Iranians, muslims or whoever. It's to get the US out of the middle east, and ideally do to the US what the US did to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in WW2: starve the US of oil and with that energy. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106419296113226300 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106419296113226300