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‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 80 children reportedly killed in school bombing
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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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Israelis and americans expanding and practicing their genocide tactics to see what they can get away with. I dont understand how murdering junior school girls is a legitimate target. Unfortunately western governments are all supporting this despite is blatant illegality. I am ashamed of my government for coming out in support of this. Anthony Albanese is Prime Minister of Australia. Shame on you.
Americans are so used to school killings that they don't blink an eye at this.
How can you live with such a callous disregard for childs lives? What has become of your country?
Become?
We're talking about the only UN member that hasn't ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, because they don't want to have to stop executing children.
Hurting children has always been a core value of the USA, up there with shooting each other, rampant egoism, and their twisted version of christian fundamentalism.
I wonder how you will feel after you realize you and your allies have been a big part of the American empire, too?
See history of the US dollar and international trade.
Your country likely contributes a significant amount to the US economy, and we go to war together, too.
how do you live with that?
Ok, so in essence you are saying the person who sold shoes to a murderer is equally guilty of the crime committed?
No, I'm in essence saying that the person who murders with the murderer is equally guilty of murder.
You should look up who arms Australia, by the way. Can you guess who?
And what do we do with those arms?
Help us murder people in Iraq and Afghanistan and you're beefing up your navy to go to war with your biggest trading partner at America's behest.
yeah i know. Australian politicians have fallen for the evil empire’s propaganda
We live with it by having gun laws which have prevented the rash of mass shootings you've had, and maintaining foreign aid programs to the countries around us, and many further away.
Yes, we trade with you, and China, and Israel, and everyone we can, because trade historically opens up opportunities for diplomacy and allows leverage for achieving human rights goals. We are part of the greater US empire, yes indeed, we've been too close to the US in the past. But when we found that our special forces had killed civilians in Afghanistan, for example, it resulted in national scandal and ongoing reform, inquiry, etc. In the US that's just the norm.
We do not participate in US military actions that may result in civilian deaths. We do not refuel your planes when they do that, for example.
We are sitting over here, trying to be friends, while being ever more horrified with your country and trying to remember the good times.
What are your gun laws that have prevented mass shootings? Genuine question.
Well, one aspect of the recent mass shooting in Sydney that was remarkable compared to ones in the US or Europe was that the shooters used long guns that could not fire very fast. Australian laws introduced after the Port Arthur massacre focused on preventing rate of fire and ammo capacity, because it literally slows down the rate at which a shooter can kill people, especially in a crowd. We also do not allow handguns, even though we allow quite powerful long arms.
If the Bondi shooters had simple trigger-pull semi-automatic ARs, they would likely have killed a lot more people.
We also have much stricter registration laws, without the loopholes you get in the States, so police generally know who has guns, where they are stored, etc, to a much greater extent, and can check up on gun owners if they want, any time. There are far fewer crazy people with guns, because you can get your license and guns taken away for being crazy, or committing violent crimes, etc.
Now, the advantage we have over the EU and the USA is a harder border to cross, fewer people crossing it, only eight state/territories to worry about, and uniform federal legislation about what guns are allowed. It makes it easier to restrict the supply of easily obtainable illegal weapons.
Sure, criminal gangs can get them, but mass shootings are bad for business, so the loners and freaks who typically do mass shootings can't easily get them.
I'm not an American
The pronoun 'you' doesn't mean you specifically; how can you tell it wasn't about 'you' specifically?
Because they didn't change the subject to you specifically, of course. The 'you' is a pronoun replacing "The United States Military", "USAF" "US and Israeli combined forces", etc.; the subject is who the 'you' is referring to, not actually you the person.
The pronoun is used in English to avoid having to specifically refer to the subject by name over and over.
Now, go forth, and SIN NO MORE
I may not be American, but I am a native speaker of English, and what you said there is a terrible, or at least tenuous, interpretation. If what you said was the intended meaning, the comment would have begun with 'Americans, how can you live with ....'
While it was immensely piss weak, Albo walked the usual line of not pissing off MAGA while not actually whole-heartedly agreeing with them. He stated that Australia supports US efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program, but did not actually support the strikes. It's the Penny Wong approach, "don't get Trump's attention, he might forget we exist" that they've been following the whole time.
Didn't oppose them either. See? Pissweak. But so far we've avoided the pedo's wrath while not being forced to actually materially support US brutality or being slapped by China. So it's working.
Western NATO aligned countries are just puppet states in the American Empire