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Do we really need to bomb Iran again?
Can’t we just… not?
Israel is a settler colonialist state using pseudoscience and “Zionism” which is just the same repackaged ideology that justified the extermination of the indigenous population in the United States. Israel is a settler colonialist project that’s main objective is the systematic extermination and land absorption of the Middle East. It’s Manifest Destiny all over again
Yeah Huckabee just said the Bible states they will rule the land so they should just take Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. He's probably testing the waters for pushing greater Israel
He also said "they" is an ethnic group who descended from Abraham, but also literally anybody who says they're a Jew because it's religious, but you don't have to be religious because it's ethnic but Palestinians shouldn't be DNA tested to prove they're Jews who converted and are closer genetically than the Jews of Europe, all in the same sitting.
The mental gymnastics he went through to justify without outright saying it that Israel is for primarily white Europeans...
So true and I think if I read correctly two of Abraham’s sons started the Muslim religion so aren’t they descendents of Abraham too by that logic? I’m not a fan of religion and government mixing at all
They want their Armageddon and I’m sure they will have it. Sadly.
What pseudoscience?
Settler colonialist Race based Supremacist pseudoscience. The great replacement theory is a good example of settler colonialist pseudoscience
trump can’t reply as he’s deep throating netanyahu
while getting banged from behind by putin.
Bubba.
Nah Putin is watching from the cuck chair
Surely Netanyahu has kompromat on him too right?
Epstein was working for Israel. They've got it all.
Do we think that’s where Russia got it, or they have their own.
If we want to see this stop, we need a revolution. We need to build a worker-led anti-imperialist movement.
This is the type of delusion that keeps me coming back to Lemmy
Yeah... i've seen how that works. Workers are incredibly corrupt, like most people.
We need something that delivers transparency with intelligence and a huge amount of social empathy as it's core. Can't work in this world. Globalism is here but fragmented feifdoms of horror remain all over, even in the wealthiest and best educated areas. To prop up one nation on the grounds of social empathy at the cost of others invites the same kind of problem we're in today, and there's simply not enough to go around with 8 billion people.
I don't have a solution to fix the world's problems, if I did I would use it. Instead all I can do is push for some kind of regulatory action. Again, consequences for shareholders. There should be the biggest penalty for unethical, immoral and illegal actions taken against humanity by the people who have a stake in the business. Leadership comes from the top, and if they are unable to avoid horrors, perhaps they shouldn't have the assets that allow them to lead.
thats just defeatist drivel.
organize with your fellow workers instead of making excuses to let your country kill us.
I would just be corrupt like the next guy. FYIGM is quite appealing vs fighting your whole life against a handful of people with vast resources in excess of everyone you have ever met in your entire life, including the billionaire ceos that you might have bumped into that one time.
if you are corrupt, then you simply shut up about it.
So pretend like there's no problem, just be corrupt.
Hot take. Exactly why the world is where it is today. Human nature baybee
fascist* nature. though nazi fucks like you will get what's coming exactly like last time.
i don't worry too much.
The primary enabler of fascism is the belief that it is inevitable.
Anarchism is the solution. We have enough resources and land for everyone to have a fantastic quality of life. We just need to stop allowing people to rule over us. Make everyone equal and corruption is no longer possible.
Yeah, OK. Show me the anarchist paradise of yours on this planet today. Just one with more than a million souls.
The reality is that a minority of individuals will resort to problematic actions to gain control and keep control, and that's why there are so many dictatorships across the world in 2026.
Once you get beyond monkeysphere scale, things like anarchism fall apart quite quickly.
the reason there are so many fascist dictatorships around the world is us interventionism.
Do you believe that everything that is possible has already happened?
The entire premise of anarchism is that individuals will always try to take problematic actions to gain control and keep control, so we need to build a society capable of resisting that. The entire system is designed around making it as hard as possible to sieze power. It's THE system which most resists becoming a dictatorship.
I encourage you to learn more about anarchism, check out an anarchist FAQ before you dismiss it.
Mmmm, I'm sorry to see this getting upvotes. Anarchism is great in theory, but the entire point of a government is to protect the weak, take from those that can afford and provide social safety nets for those who cannot.
Even with our broken democracy, a lot of that still works, even though a lot more is broken.
The solution to our broken democracy is not a lack of government completely.
People bitch about government bloat and inefficiency, but you know what's worse? Corporations with unfettered ability to maximise profit even more than they do now. The shitty limited regulations we have now? Gone in anarchy.
Anarchy is rule by the strongest.
It'd be great if we lived in some Star Trek future where everyone cooperated. But we don't. I wish anarchy worked.
I am literally begging you to learn the fundamentals of anarchism, it isn't what you think it is, at all. Check out an anarchist FAQ to learn more.
your country is literally murdering people around the planet.
you don't have the moral high ground here (esp against an ideology you seem to know nothing about)
That's a whole load of whataboutism bullshit.
the entire thread is literally about your country positioning weapons of war to kill iranians.
If you have a better way for Israel to forestall elections and reckoning for their failure to keep their ghetto under control we would love to hear it. Because using the epstein blackmail to force the US into starting our new forever war, Persian Gulf War III, is what we are working with here.
And there will be no shortage of pretexts to reopen hostilities no matter of peace agreements afterwards, hence the forever part. We had to cross over to hit a militant group, terror group, whatever. Every time Israel's leaders' approval ratings are down or they are facing a vote they can pretext up another round of Iran war.
The beauty of it, for them, is that Iran is nearly powerless to respond. They've a non existant airforce, rudimentary missiles and air defense, and are fundamentally compromised in their communications on a base level allowing near total visibility in what they are doing. Satelites, drones, the air forces, it's fun killing people that can't fight back! /s
The irony of the "mad mullah" propaganda by the Zionist US media is that Shia teaching is dead-set against the development of nuclear weapons and always has been. If the Iranians had copied North Korean and developed the bomb Trump wouldn't have dared starting a nuclear war.
Hey, what you don't trust me?
So you're in favour of bombing Iran? That ending was surprising. Or you're too stupid to understand double negatives.
It's a question, the first negative doesn't apply this way.
"Can we go home?" vs "can't we go home?" are the same question, just different emphasis. Not opposites.
I'm not sure they're the one misunderstanding.
There used to be a satirical musical group called the Capitol Steps that sang a song called "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran" sung to the tune of the Beach Boys Barbara Ann. This was at 20 years ago. Unfortunately, Covid killed the group (as in made it no longer viable because people quit coming to see them, not actually killing them).
I wish they'd try to make a comeback.
yeah US Senator John McCain of Arizona himself loved to sing that little ditty
We're still looking for the WMDs.
We do have the receipts so we know they did have them, Iraq.
Of course we also knew he used them all on his own people if not the Iranians, as we supported him in the Iraq/Iran war, one of the bloodiest wars in history, I think over a million deaths from it. Hussein was fond of human wave attacks on machine gun nests and fortified lines.
https://youtu.be/s8hEtI9AI0U
I'd love to see the end of the Ayatollahs myself.
Many people do, but there are legitimate concerns about
Supporting Israel and the US attacking them cements them in power as they rally around the flag. And even if he did get overthrown, nothing better would result. More likely is they kill him in an airstrike, and nothing better will result. Anyone supporting this war is a fool and a traitor to the common good. Ignorance is no excuse.