• pyre@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    me when people like you conveniently start to pretend to care about gay people only when something happens to Israel

    • Godric@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      6 months ago

      ?? Since when is calling out pro-islamists just pretending to be pro-gay rights? Iran beats women to death for wearing the wrong clothes and tortures atheists if you want some more groups you can claim I’m just pretending to care about.

        • Godric@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          6 months ago

          Iran is “within their rights” to bomb Israel back. Both the Israeli and Iranian governments are evil, run by evil men, and I wish nothing but unpleasantness for them both.

          I’ve been seeing people defend Iran like they’re some saints randomly sucker punched instead of a vile state set on building nukes to do holocaust 2. Hence the meme.

          Do I think people are stupid for defending Iran? If I answered that honestly, I would user much more accurate words and a mod would ding me for civility.

      • rigatti@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        6 months ago

        Like most godfearing red-white-and-blue-blooded Americans, I spend about 16 hours a day watching girls’ high school swimming, and let me say, it’s a travesty that the sport is 90% trans girls now.

  • YknsNMo000@thelemmy.club
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    4 months ago

    See man you do it all the time. Nobody was “cheering on Iran”. You’re a propaganda agent for the genocide. Even homophobic populations don’t deserve to get fucking bombed, retard.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    Reminds me of the irony that the country that turned the tide against Nazism was the country that killed, displaced, and imprisoned almost the whole indigenous population.

      • dronarnia@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        6 months ago

        Have you ever seen a map of Russia? You think a country gets that big peacefully? Look up the income disparity between the Moscow / St. P west of Russia vs the vast majority.

        • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comBanned
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          6 months ago

          The Russian Empire didn’t genocide the entirety of the continent in pursuit of a white ethnostate, unlike the US. Surely it did harrowing stuff because, I mean, medieval regimes, but as of today, Russia is vastly more diverse than the US, and it has many regions with non-slavic ethnicities constituting a majority: think Yakut, Tatars, Mari, Chechen…

  • Lucelu2@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    Yah, I have no dog in this fight. I just don’t want to get drawn into it. I am over the ME for good. No good actors.

    However, I wish my nation would welcome refugees, the innocents who are caught up in this and need refuge and asylum. So… the US sucks too for not offering it. I cared for a young woman from Iraq, a refugee, the other day. She spent 8 years in a refugee camp in Turkey (d/t Trump immigration/refugee bans) before finally coming here. She has 2 children, a worried husband and she is pretty sick now. I hope she can get the surgery she needs.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    It’s pretty “funny” the amount of people who imagine this as some “foreign conflict” between “two sides”, when it’s a direct continuation of USAian imperialism. It’s not surprising that brainwashed libs are hating on an “official enemy”. Libs and their politicians have supported these attacks on Iran for decades.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

  • Omega@discuss.online
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    Supporting Iran limits the ability of Israel to commit to their genocide, support Israel only enhances their capability to genocide and supporting neither only benefits Israel which make use of their partnership with the west

    Hate Iran all you want, despise them, that’s fine, but we need to pick anything at this point when the alternative is Israel

    It might be better for the gays in Israel, but what about the gays in Palestine, or simply the people within Gaza?

    You can reform a state to treat gay people like humans, you can’t reform a genocidal state