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Do you believe that "death to America" chants should not be taken seriously?
by jckahn 2mo ago
Do you believe that "death to America" chants should not be taken seriously?
- culi 2mo agoI'm saying it is foolish and historically uninformed to hold a blind faith that everyone that the US labels an "adversary" is evil. Would you like to engage with the comment I left?
- jckahn 2mo agoI agree that blindly assuming that all "adversaries" of the U.S. (per labeling by the U.S. government) want to kill us. But it does seem that some indeed do. It would further seem that proportionate countermeasures would be appropriate for those cases.
- mx7zysuj4xew 2mo agoYeah To the younger generations it's just political theatre and gets laughed at as being the equivalent of boomer cringe
- fryanyway_swe 2mo ago[flagged]
- dofm 2mo agoIn short, yes. They should not be taken seriously. You should take Iranian actions on the ground seriously, and ignore that which is essentially compelled political theatre.
- throw310822 2mo agoNo they shouldn't because "death to" is simply a mistranslation. "Death to" is an idiom in Persian that means approximately "down with"- and in fact the official translation by the Iranian government itself is "Down with the USA". But I'm curious what you thought it meant.
- theodric 2mo agoSo rather than wanting to kill the USA, they merely want to bring it down? That sounds like a distinction without a difference if you're a military tasked with ensuring that your country continues to exist.
- culi 2mo agoI would say "down with Palantir". That doesn't mean I want every member of that organization dead. In the same way, it's absolutely fine to say down with a state. States/corporations don't have rights. People do.
- theodric 2mo agoAs I said, if you're a military tasked with ensuring that your country continues to exist. I concede nothing. I doubt you'll find a single loyal military in the world that would be content for its country to fall to some random aggressor. It's the entire point.
- srean 2mo agoLike ... death to traffic.
- Planktonne 2mo agoIf they have no practical way of acting on the chant, then it's just bluster.