Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and wounded

  • moustachio@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The oppressive “regime” is irrelevant here. They are only being attacked because the real hostile state in the region: Israel wants us to because their blackmail operation got caught and they want to expand their borders.

    The U.S. and Israeli regimes are 100% in the wrong here, and Irans government is irrelevant to those facts. They’re not helping the people of Iran, they’re doing imperialism.

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      1 day ago

      Counterpoint: the oppressive regime is never irrelevant.

      The Iranian government cannot be irrelevant because the person I replied to initially was writing fiction about their behaviour. It’s why we’re having a conversation at all.

      Last I checked, no one here is arguing that the US or Israel are helping the Iranian people. But as I said before, the US (or Israel) being bad doesn’t make Iran good.

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        1 day ago

        Oh you’re right… it’s totally worth spending 37bn+ on a war to protect US child raping ruling class from justice.

        Maybe there’s other countries you deem bad we can indiscriminately bomb on behalf of Israel?

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          1 day ago

          It seems like you may be malfunctioning. That’s a wild non-sequitur.

          Who are you having that conversation with? And why are you replying to me?

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            1 day ago

            You seem intent on pointing out Iran is bad, in spite of the fact that the reason it’s in the spotlight is mainly as a distraction from punishment at home.

            “Iran bad” is irrelevant to you. You are clearly not Iranian; it literally doesn’t matter what you think about Iranians government to compare them to the two governments that almost certainly relevant to you. They can deal with their own problems internally, and the imperialist two shithead governments deserve the full weight of criticism.

            So yeah, welcome to conversations online clearly you are new to them as people can discuss things, and reply to your comments.

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              1 day ago

              Reply to me, not the argument you wish I was making.

              I’ll simplify for you: Fuck the US. Fuck Iran. Fuck this war.

              If you want to talk to someone saying something different than that, go find them and talk to them.

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                24 hours ago

                “But guys, Iran bad too!” -non Iranian who’s not getting bombed by aggressor states.

                Wow, great commentary there buddy.