Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone

obbeel@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s also something that allows people to organize to overthrow an oppressive authoritarian regime.

  But this particular authoritarian regime is apparently good because they want to wipe Israel off the map, so I guess we need to pretend everything they do is for the best.

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  • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Motherfucker: who started the war

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Iran, look what they were wearing!

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are greater power responsible for the actions of their proxies?

      Before you answer, remember the answer to that question applies to both sides in this conflict.

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      • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What proxy? Israel bombed Iran unprovoked directly, no proxy there.

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  • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well according to the Democrats, I should always support the lesser of two evils, so now Iran is good. /s

    For real though, it’s called critical support. You can support Iran’s right to defend against genocide while simultaneously criticizing their human rights abuses.

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So it’s ok for you to give “critical support” to an authoritarian regime, but super bad for someone to give “critical support” to Israel for fighting against an authoritarian whose proxies massacred villages? Why isn’t Iranian proxies massacring villages, Iran itself firing missiles at civilian populations (including a hosptial) something you don’t consider to be genocide?

      How do you determine which genocide you support and which genocide you’re against?

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Attacking civilians doesn’t automatically make it a genocide. If that were true, then pretty much every war ever was a genocide.

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, so authoritarian regimes whose proxies massacre villages are bad now?

        Fuck you. Stop talking shit about my country.

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      • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, I don’t give critical support to Israel because they are a settler colonial project who, along with the US and other Western powers, started all of the troubles in the Middle East in the first place.

        No critical support for imperialists.

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  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    thanks CIA

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    • creisel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As a non American I thought it was someone from FBI or NSA.

      With all those agencies I’m getting confused who has to post what on social media

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      • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Could be Eglin Airforce base

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  • Zannsolo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Iran sucks, Israel sucks too.

    I don’t want Israel wiped off the map. I just want Netanyahu to crawl in a hole and off himself like his hero Hitler.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t want the stronghold of protocols LARPers wiped off the map

      Why not? A shot at stabilizing the region sounds pretty good after the past century. Feel like the people kind of deserve a moment of not having to watch their fucking back’s every second.

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      • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You are currently arguing in favour of genocide.

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  • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah… take the Iranian government, then take the Israel government… and throw them both into the Thunderdome!

    Pay-per-view that shit! (And use the proceeds to help innocent rebuild their lives)

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a war, not a game. One of the problems we have is people considering this conflict involving a lot of human suffering like it’s a sport and taking sides and generally acting like complete psychopaths around it. The anti-Israel crowd seem to want Palestians to suffer more so they can continue to have more propaganda to prove Israelis are evil.

      I want the Israeli people being held hostage by Hamas to be released and the war there to be ended as soon as possible to stop the suffering of Palestinians caught in the middle of a war and to stop the suffering of those hostages. I want Iran to give up it’s nuclear program and stop supporting terrorism across the Middle East so that war will end so Iranians and Israelis won’t be killed or maimed by exchanges of missiles and air strikes.

      It is possible to have empathy for Israelis, Palestinians, and Iranians you know. Though if you do the psychos on all sides who think of this like it’s a game will all hate you.

      But fuck’ em, they’re psychopaths.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why did the authoritarian regime wait until now to turn off the Internet?

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Something we can’t know at the moment. Their state media has taken some hits, so it’s possible they lost capabilities in monitoring internet traffic.

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