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- titanomachy 6mo agoYou probably have to wait 2 more years to see if they're really a dictatorship, for the time being at least they still have an electoral mandate.
- dbdr 6mo agoHaving an electoral mandate is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. If you don't follow your own laws and your own constitution, for instance, you're not a in a democracy, even if you have been elected. Precisely because you are elected under the assumption that you will follow the laws and constitution, not have unlimited power to do whatever you like until the next elections.
- platinumrad 6mo agoThe Trump regime is still borderline, but I think it's fair to call Netanyahu a dictator at this point.
- edgyquant 6mo agoWho exactly are you talking about?
- barbazoo 6mo agohttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam... > On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12
- edgyquant 6mo agoThis doesn’t make the us or Israel a dictatorship
- dmos62 6mo agoIt's almost funny how both of these descriptions can apply to either country.
- spaghetdefects 6mo ago[flagged]
- victorbjorklund 6mo agoIran hit a teaching hospital so I guess they technically managed to hit a school and a hospital at the same time.
- platinumrad 6mo agoI agree that HN often turns a blind eye to all of the awful things that the US and Israel do, but Iran is hitting civilian targets as well.
- spaghetdefects 6mo ago[flagged]
- victorbjorklund 6mo agoIran has helped Russia bomb many schools and hospitals.
- dmos62 6mo agoIt's ironic how they've been so instrumental in bombing Ukraine's civilian targets (for years) and now they're likely to get their civilian infrastructure bombed, by a third party. Strange times.
- rolandog 6mo agoNot to mention atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 170,000+ deaths.
- fsckboy 6mo agothe japanese killed around 50 times that number of people in ww2 (R.J. Rummel, Statistics of Democide, 1997)
- pb7 6mo ago[flagged]
- dang 6mo agoPlease don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. The GP comment was bad*, but responding in kind is the opposite of what we're trying for here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (* for reasons—I hasten to add—unrelated to which side of the conflict they or anyone else is identifying with)