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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 27 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

I don't think people are cheering on Iran, I think they're cheering for Israel to be on the receiving side of violence for once.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

America literally executes Down's people.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/divided-supreme-court-vacates-injunction-permits-alabama-to-execute-intellectually-disabled-prisoner

So now what? We're supposed to cheer on Israel, who literally starves children, because sometimes Iran does things as bad as we do?

Twist your brain more into a pretzel, why don't you.

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

When both sides are terrible, you cheer for neither

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[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If a country that was more progressive than the US (not hard to find one) started bombing the shit out of New York City, would you be like “well, they deserve it for their transphobia”?

Do you realize that Orthodox Jews consider women to be inferior to men? Like, they won’t even shake a woman’s hand.

Sacha Baron Cohen, Zionist shithead though he is, actually got chased down the street in Israel by an angry mob for playing his flamboyant gay character Bruno. He had to yell “I’m a Jew I’m a Jew” to keep from getting the shit kicked out of him.

Israel is literally committing genocide RIGHT NOW. I’m sure there are plenty of gay, trans, nonbinary Palestinians who have head their limbs blown off, if that’s really what upsets you.

The genocide apologism is so obvious it’s sad. You point to one issue that will make liberals go “oh no, scary Muslims!” and you run with that. Fix your heart.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

I'm not "apologizing for genocide", I'm pointing out that people cheering on a state that tortures atheists and LGBT people is wrong. Fix your head.

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[–] AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf 18 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

You guys also realize gay people in Gaza are also persecuted, right?

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[–] valkyrieangela@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

Purity politics needs to end. Some of you MFs need to learn strategy, and play a game like Civ. If Iran harasses Israel, bully for us. Two of the worst people we know are now fighting, we should celebrate this reprieve.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 16 hours ago

Exactly. It's possible to see a fight between two drunk idiots and just hope that they both get hurt and nobody else does.

We don't have to take sides unless you know one of them personally.

And I don't know either of these cunts.

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 16 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

Is the Iran regime bad? Yes. Are they colonial outpost that is actively committing genocide? No. Are the Iranian people settlers like the Israelis? No.

Who is dragging the US into war with Iran and potentially WW3? Israel.

Does this help maybe?

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[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The issue is that you're acting as if the people who were always in favour of the Iranian government wouldn't have cheered anyways, and that people just turned "pro iran" after they bombed Israel, when that is clearly not the case.

You are going to see people who are in favour of the Iranian government cheer on, but that doesn't mean that they are people who weren't in favour of the Iranian regime suddenly turned pro Iranian government.

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[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

No one is cheering for "Iran". They are cheering for a country standing up for itself against an aggressive colonizing force bent on expansionism through violent actions currently engaged in unwarranted genocide.

[–] Liberteez@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

A country which happens to be Iran, another perpetuator of genocides

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Yeah no, I've seen people are cheering for Iran, hence the meme.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

It’s called critical support. I can support both Iran’s self-defense from genocidal maniacs while simultaneously criticizing them for their human rights abuses. It’s something that people with a functioning brain can do - hold two ideas in their head at once.

Besides, Israel has killed more gay people in the last year just through sheer numbers of the people they’ve exterminated than Iran has ever.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Two ideas? In this economy?

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

There's a difference between carpet bombing an entire country (also not defensible) and deliberately removing gay people from your population using the legal system.

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/1600962503-study-iran-tops-list-for-most-dangerous-destination-for-gay-travelers

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and carpet bombing is entirely more evil. Iran is the lesser of two evils here. Isn’t that what liberals said we should always strive for? The lesser of two evils?

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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Ay yes, Iran, so progressive

Yes this is what the Iranian government y'all god-damn mental broads are cheering on does

Disgusting

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[–] suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

yeah yeah let's go war! morons. USA executes poor people, gay or not. how is that for equality and representation?

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, when a country persecutes queer people they lose the right to defend themselves from countries building weapons caches in their boarders. Then using those caches to blow up civilians.

That's why I'm in favour of bombing London and Florida.

Do you see how fucking stupid you are?

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Hey dipshit, Iran was building nukes, not just standing there vibing. You shouldn't cheer either state. Both are evil governments run by evil men.

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[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's the Duke vs UNC or UGA vs Bama, while you wish they could both lose, it's not really an option.

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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

What about Israel, a country that literally executes an entire nation of people, the Palestinians?

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Is OP saying "support Israël instead" ?

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

They could be. There are two alternatives.

Dissenters to supporters of Iran could mean dissenters to supporters of Israel, or supporters of Israel themselves.

Attackees can wish for their attackers to be attacked themselves, and those people 3rd party to the affair can wish for all attacks to stop.

I assumed the former in hopes of combating the chance that this post contained Israeli propaganda. It seems now like OP believes the latter.

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[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 12 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

What about not cheering for either one? Or just fuckin stop with the immediate what abouts?

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[–] LucidLyes@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

In this conflict I learned to take no side, except the one of the victims who didn't ask to be involved.

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[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is it possible they are both just very very bad?

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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

It's not so much cheering on Iran, but not giving a shit about Israel. Like, Israel just attacked Iran, they reap what they sow.

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