commiewolf

Genocide against red wine, CCP strikes again.

Cuz you can't see in the dark.

Yeah of course, but it is undeniably funny to imagine people who virtue signal constantly about how Iran is a police state that arrests and tortures people, to end up arrested and detained in an actual police state. Like these people come out of the woodwork every time the US flares up against Iran with "I am a real PERSIAN and I want regime change!".

came to the United States in 1978

A lot of them are gusanos, so it will come with no small amount of schadenfreude should they end up going through this in the US.

They should let the poor man go, and then instead beat up and detain his three marine kids, I'd say it's a fair deal.

We still let them get away with this shit, how many of us in the global south are doing anything to actually fight back? Apart from Yemen and Iran, we are all either too cowardly, weak, or self centered to work together and put an end to this bullshit. I can think of plenty of societies that are not western that desperately deserve rebooting.

It's not, I've seen versions of this posted last year, and back then it was an French flag in the middle, I think someone just painted over that with the EU one here for whatever reason.

This goes for most places on earth that aren't quite literally at war. DPRK arguably is still at war and you can still get by as a tourist, which says a lot.

Smells like false flag bullshit. This is the kind of thing that's said before something catastrophic happens, then they'll go "We didn't want to, now they're forcing our hand!".

I'm not an expert, so anyone is free to correct me, but if I could make any comparison to western religions, Islam is similar to Orthodox Christianity, where religious leadership is much less centralized and there is a "Patriarch" for each country. Since there isn't really a cross cultural religious head for most Muslims. Various regions have their own "Grand Mufti" in the case of Sunni Islam, such as the grand Mufti of Cairo, or the now viciously persecuted Grand Mufti of Syria. In the case of Twelver Shia Islam, which is the religion of Iran, the clerical system is made up of several regional Grand Ayatollahs which serve various regions across Iran, as well as some in Iraq I believe, with the Supreme Leader Khamenei at the top of the clerical hierarchy. Note, that this is for a religious sect that is only really prominent within Iran itself and parts of Iraq.

Now does that equate him to the pope? Sort of, but if Catholicism was limited to only Italy, and the pope was also the president of Italy. This is why I am not really fond of this western framing to try and draw a parallel, because it misunderstands and generalizes Islam far too much.

I would compare targeting him to be akin to targeting say the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, it would still be outrageous and pretty much solidify the entire country's hatred for whoever did it. But I would not expect international outpourings of religious Orthodox nations scrambling to offer support.

You're somewhat generalizing a lot of people based on assumptions about them that we would like to be true.

Firstly, Arabs, Muslims, whomever you may be referring to, are human beings first, and they are for the most part living through similar, or likely worse conditions under modern capitalism than you or I. To assume that the people all across the middle east should be willing to risk their lives, and those of their children, to rebel against not just their own state, but the combined backing of the US, Israel, and Europe, is to reduce them to extremely ideologically motivated and selfless people. While there are many who have such motivations, the vast majority, are regular human beings just like the rest of the world, who's immediate security and safety will come first, alienated further from any mass action by oppressive capitalism and a large sense of defeatism. In all honesty there is only the nations of Yemen and Iran that are in the kind of position to be willing to put up such a fight, but their governments already represent their views.

Ask any person anywhere whether they would stake their livelihood, their children's security, and their futures to try and topple an unjust government, for enabling the actions of another country, against the people of a third country, and it's not hard to see why it is a very, very hard sell, regardless of whether or not you are Muslim or Arab.

Besides, who can blame them, when it shouldn't even be their fight? It's the western governments who have started this, and it is western families who's children will have to fight should there be a war. Where are the indignant westerners who should be outraged by their governments trying to drag THEM into war? Why aren't they more outraged that THEY could be sent to die? A middle eastern person may dislike Israel, or the US, but the western people should be furious, as they are the ones being dragged into something they want nothing to do with.

I mean, I don't think there is anyone who posts about their lived experience around here more than @SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml, and quite a lot of it is about what total shit-holes Belgium and The Netherlands are like to live in. Given their posts, I get the impression it's just as bad, if not worse, than most places in the US.

So idk where you're getting the impression that the EU is some magic utopia, maybe you're just lucky enough to live in a more privileged class of your society? I know from personal acquaintances that they often never came into contact with less fortunate people due to how in Europe it's much more provincial, and not quite as Urban, so you're not always going to be made to confront the poverty and exploitation as viscerally as in other parts of the world.